The IBSF World Snooker Championship (also known as the World Amateur Snooker Championship) is the premier non-professional snooker

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...

 tournament in the world. The event series is sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation

International Billiards and Snooker Federation

The International Billiards & Snooker Federation is the organisation that governs non-professional snooker and English billiards around the world . The organization is presently headquartered in Reims, France.-History:...

. A number of IBSF champions have gone on to successful careers in the Pro ranks, notably Jimmy White

Jimmy White

James Warren "Jimmy" White MBE is an English professional snooker player. Nicknamed the "Whirlwind" and popularly referred to as the "People's Champion", White is a multiple World Championship finalist renowned for losing each of the six finals he contested.White's extensive list of achievements,...

 (1980), James Wattana

James Wattana

James Wattana is a Thai professional snooker player.-Career:...

 (1988), Stuart Bingham

Stuart Bingham

Stuart Bingham is an English professional snooker player. He was the 1996 English Amateur and World Amateur champion, but for many years was something of a journeyman professional. He had a run of strong results in late 2005, to earn him a top 32 world rankings place he has yet to lose...

 (1996), Stephen Maguire

Stephen Maguire

Stephen Maguire is a Scottish professional snooker player.-Early career:Maguire almost qualified for the 2000 World Championships, leading eventual semi-finalist Joe Swail 9–6 in the final qualifying round before losing 9–10, but first served notice of his true potential by knocking out Stephen...

 (2000) and Mark Allen

Mark Allen (snooker player)

Mark Allen is a Northern Irish professional snooker player. He won the World Amateur Championship in 2004. The following year he turned professional and took only three seasons to reach the elite top 16...

 (2004) - however, only 1989 IBSF champion Ken Doherty

Ken Doherty

Ken Doherty is an Irish professional snooker player. He is the only player ever to have been world amateur and world professional champion...

 has gone on to win the Pro World Snooker Championship (in 1997).

Recent Finals

In 2007 an all-Thailand

Thailand

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 final saw Atthasit Mahitthi defeat Passakorn Suwannawat

Passakorn Suwannawat

Passakorn Suwannawat is a Thai professional snooker player.Suwannawat turned professional in the 2006/2007 season. He dropped off the main tour after just one season....

 11 - 7 . At the 2008 championship in Wels

Wels

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, Austria

Austria

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 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh is a professional snooker player from Thailand. He first entered the professional tour for the 2009/10 season with winning the 2008 IBSF World Amateur Championship.-External links:***...

 of Thailand defeated Ireland

Ireland

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's Colm Gilcreest

Colm Gilcreest

Colm Gilcreest is a former professional snooker player from Kilmainhamwood, County Meath, Ireland.-Career history:He is a former Irish champion...

 11 - 7.

The 2009 event was held in Hyderabad, India, and won by Alfie Burden

Alfred Burden

Alfred "Alfie" Burden is an English professional snooker player who lives in London.-Career:Burden originally had his eyes set on making a career as a professional footballer, but a badly broken leg curtailed this ambition. He spent a couple of seasons at Arsenal F.C. as a schoolboy apprentice,...

 of England, 10–8 against Igor Figueiredo

Igor Figueiredo

Igor Almeida Figueiredo is a Brazilian professional snooker player.-Career:He received a wild card onto the main tour for 2010/2011, having been a runner-up to Alfie Burden in the 2009 IBSF World Championship. He also competed on the PIOS tour where he finished 12th in the rankings after the eight...

 of Brazil

Brazil

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The 2010 event was held in Damascus

Damascus

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, Syria

Syria

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, and won by Dechawat Poomjaeng

Dechawat Poomjaeng

Dechawat Poomjaeng is a Thai professional snooker player.He won the 2010 IBSF World Snooker Championship in Damascus, Syria, defeating India's Pankaj Advani 10–7 in the final. This earned him a place on the professional Main Tour for the 2011/2012 season.-External links:*...

 of Thailand, defeating India's Pankaj Advani

Pankaj Advani

Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...

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The 2011 Championship will be held from November 28th - December 3rd in Bangalore

Bangalore

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, India

India

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