The 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship was an amateur
snooker
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tournament which took place from 9 November to 21 November 2015 in
Hurghada,
Egypt
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.
It will be the 41st edition of the
IBSF World Snooker Championship and also doubles as a
qualification event for the
World Snooker Tour.
The men's tournament was won by
Pankaj Advani of
India
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who won his second IBSF World Snooker Championship, defeating
2013
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runner-up
Zhao Xintong
Zhao Xintong (; born 3 April 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player. Long considered one of the brightest talents in the game, he won his first ranking title (also his first Triple Crown title) at the 2021 UK Championship, defeating Luc ...
8–6 in the final.
Wendy Jans
Wendy Jans (born 14 June 1983, in Bree, Belgium) is a Belgian professional snooker and pool player. She has won the IBSF World Snooker Championship for women seven times. She reached her first women's world final at the 2022 World Women's Snooke ...
won the women's tournament by defeating
Anastasia Nechaeva
Anastasia Nechaeva (born 9 May 1993) is a Russian snooker and pool player. She was runner-up in the 2014 and 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championships.
Playing career
Nechaeva had success in pool as a teenager, including winning the 2009 European ...
5–1 in the final. This victory was Jans fourth consecutive tournament win and her fifth overall.
Tournament
The tournament was an event run by the
International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF). The event was originally due to take place in
Sharm el-Sheikh
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, however due to the
Metrojet Flight 9268 crash the tournament was relocated to
Hurghada. Because of this many competitors withdrew from the competition amid safety fears and this ended up leaving some of the groups featuring as little as four players who would subsequently all qualify for the knockout stage of the tournament regardless of their results in the group stage. The men's event also doubled as a
qualification event for the
World Snooker Tour.
Singles players
;
2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship – Men's
;
2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship – Women's
Seedings
Men's event
Women's event
References
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2015 in snooker
Snooker amateur tournaments
Hurghada
2015 in Egyptian sport
International sports competitions hosted by Egypt
November 2015 sports events in Africa