The Artistic Billiards World Championship is a
carom billiards
Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score or "counts" by ' one's o ...
tournament in the discipline of
artistic billiards, organized by the
Confédération International de Billard Artistique.
Raymond Steylaerts of
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
has won the tournament six times, more than any other player. The current champion is
David González from
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
List of champions
This is the list of Artistic Billiards World Champions since 1937 (years not shown are years in which the event was not held). The winners have mainly been European, and more commonly Belgian.
References
CIBA Online: World Championships
{{Main world championships
Artistic billiards
World championships in carom billiards
Recurring sporting events established in 1937
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2012