Om B. Agarwal was an India

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n professional snooker

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 player who won the 1983 amateur IBSF

International Billiards and Snooker Federation

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 World Billiards Championship

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 in Dublin, Ireland, the first Indian to win the event. He received the prestigious Arjuna Award

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 that year, in recognition of this victory for India. He died in 1994 at the age of 37. He was the brother of fellow player Subhash Agarwal

Subhash Agarwal

Subhash Agarwal is an Indian professional player and coach of English billiards and snooker. A National Snooker Champion of India, he was the runner-up in the 1983 amateur IBSF World Billiards Championship, losing to Michael Ferreira 2744–3933, and later won the event...

, and a protégé of Anglo-Indian

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 champion Wilson Jones. Agarwal's family name is sometimes misspelled "Agrawal".