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Yana Shut
Yana Shut (born 29 July 1997 in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian snooker and pool player. She is the first IBSF Under-18 World Snooker Champion and also WLBSA World Snooker Mixed Doubles Champion. In 2018 she became European Champion in 10-Ball. Career Yana Shut started her career in 2005 at pool tournament in Belarus and won her first tournament in 2006, when she was only 9 years old. In 2012 Yana was representing her country at European Youth Pool Championship. In 2013 Yana started to play snooker and in June 2013 she competed in the 2013 EBSA European Snooker Championships but lost in the quarter-final round to eventually winner Wendy Jans. The following year, Yana played in the WLBSA Ladies World Under-21 Championship where she would go on to face defending champion Hannah Jones in a thrilling final. Jones however was successful retaining the championship, defeating Yana Shut 3–1. In 2014 Yana Shut played and won WLBSA World Snooker Mixed Doubles Championship in team w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk
Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk District (raion). As of January 2021, its population was 2 million, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). First documented in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk before being annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, an administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Clarke (snooker Player)
Jamie Clarke (born 5 October 1994) is a Welsh professional snooker player. Career Clarke drew attention in 2014 when he defeated former world number 8 Darren Morgan in 6–0 whitewash in the semi-finals of the Welsh Amateur Championship before going on to defeat Lee Walker to capture the highest ranking and most prestigious amateur event in Wales. In 2015 Clarke entered several events in an attempt to qualify for the World Snooker Tour and narrowly missed out by losing in the final of tournaments on 3 occasions. In April, Clarke lost 3–4 in a final-frame decider to Martin O'Donnell in the final round of the EBSA Qualifying Tour Play-off. Clarke would go on to enter Q School in May 2015, but would be unable to advance further than the third round. In June 2015, Clarke qualified for the knockout stage of EBSA European Snooker Championship as the 19th seed where he lost 4–7 to Michael Wild in the final. The following month at the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship Clark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Evans (snooker Player)
Laura Evans (born 1986) is a Welsh snooker player. She has been Welsh Ladies' snooker champion three times, and was runner-up in the 2015 Eden Ladies Masters and the 2017 World Women's 10-Red Championship. Biography Evans started playing snooker aged 14. She started entering women's tournaments in Wales, and won her first event at 15. The following year, with a practice routine of playing around six hours a day, she started entering world ladies snooker events. Evans won Welsh Ladies Championship in three consecutive years. She stopped playing on the women's snooker circuit in 2003, following the effect of the tobacco sponsorship ban on the game. In 2014 she started playing again, at Star Snooker Club in Skewen. In 2015 entered the Eden Masters, and defeated reigning world champion Ng On-yee on the way to reaching her first ranking event final. Evans and her playing partner Suzie Opacic were runners-up in the Women's Pairs Championship in both 2017 and 2018. In 2019. Evans and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLBSA Eden Masters
World Women's Snooker, founded as the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA) in 1981, and known as World Ladies Billiards and Snooker (WLBS) from 2015 to 2018, is a subsidiary company of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association concerned with governing and promoting snooker and billiards for women. Precursors Women's Snooker and Billiards had been governed by the Women's Billiards Association (WBA), formed in 1931. However, the last professional billiards and snooker championships organised by the WBA were those held in 1950, and by the early 1970s the organisation had "fallen on hard times" according to leading snooker journalist and author Clive Everton. A Women's Billiards & Snooker Association (WBSA) was formed in 1976, and in 1978 appointed Wally West, snooker club owner, and holder of the world record break of 151, as Secretary. The Association organised the 1976 Women's World Open snooker championship and further championships in 1980 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Bonney
Emma Bonney is an English world champion player of English billiards, and snooker player. She has won the women's world billiards title a record thirteen times. Emma Bonney is the only player to be ranked number 1 in the world at both snooker and billiards at the same time. Biography Bonney was born on 13 July 1976 in Portsmouth. English billiards Bonney has won the women's world billiards title a record thirteen times. Bonney won the first of her world billiards championship titles in 2000, having been runner-up in 1998. On 8 April 2010, she won her fifth World Ladies Billiards title at the Hall Green Stadium, Birmingham, beating Chitra Magimairaj of India 269–220 in the final. Bonney won her 13th world billiards championship, and sixth consecutive victory, in 2018. The 2019 World Women's Billiards Championship was held in Australia, and Bonney did not participate. Snooker Bonney has been the runner-up in the World Women's Snooker Championship three times. She lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland Ladies Snooker Championship
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain.The 2022 population of the Republic of Ireland was 5,123,536 and that of Northern Ireland in 2021 was 1,903,100. These are Census data from the official governmental statistics agencies in the respective jur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatjana Vasiljeva
Tatjana Vasiļjeva is a Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...n snooker player. She is national champion and European champion in snooker. She was the winner of the European ladies championship in 2012. Vasiljeva and Anna Prysazhnuka were runners-up in the 2016 Ladies European Team Snooker Championship, losing 1–4 to the Russia 1 team of Anastasia Nechaeva and Daria Sirotina in the final. Career finals Amateur finals References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vasiļjeva, Tatjana Female snooker players Latvian snooker players 21st-century Latvian women 21st-century Latvian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Pocket Billiard Federation
The European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF) is the European governing body for pocket billiards. EPBF is the European regional affiliate member of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). The federation holds the European Championships since 1980. and Euro Tour The Euro Tour is a series of professional pool events set around Europe, founded in 1992, and created by the European Pocket Billiard Federation. The Tour's first event was the ''Belgium Open'', held on May 29 – 31, 1992. The event was won by M ... events since 1992. EPBF members National affiliate members of EPBF : References External linksEuropean Pocket Billiard Federation {{Sports governing bodies in Europe Pool organizations Billiard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmin Ouschan
Jasmin Ouschan (; born 10 January 1986) is an Austrian professional pool player from Klagenfurt, Carinthia. Her first professional competition occurred in 2002, but she did not officially become a professional member of the Women's Professional Billiards Association (WPBA) until 2007. She is currently one of the top-ranked women in the world according to the 2010 prize money list and by the WPBA rankings. At times, she has been ranked as the number one female player in the world. Since 2006, she has been listed among the top-ten women in the annual prize money rankings. Ouschan competes regularly with men on the Euro Tour and in 2008 became the first woman to earn a medal in an open world pool championship. In international competition she has earned the World Games 2005 gold medal and World Games 2009 silver medal in nine-ball. , she has earned a total of twenty-nine individual European Pool Championships gold medals (ten in eight-ball, ten in nine-ball, six in straight pool a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
