Brijesh Damani (born 22 November 1982 at
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
,
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
) is an Indian professional
snooker player
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in I ...
. He won the 2008 Indian National Snooker Championship. He also won silver medal in
2010 Asian Games
The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzhou 2010 (), was a regional multi-sport event celebrated from November 12 to November 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, although several events ...
in China.
Brijesh did his school from Shri Daulatram Nopany Vidyalaya, Kolkata
Performance and rankings timeline
Career finals
Team finals: 1
Amateur finals: 1
References
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Indian snooker players
1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kolkata
Asian Games medalists in cue sports
Asian Games silver medalists for India
Cue sports players at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Cue sports players from West Bengal