Cue sports
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
There are three major subdivisions o ...
, including
three-cushion billiards
Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a form of carom billiards. The object of the game is to the off both while contacting the at least three times before contacting the second object ball. A point is scored for each su ...
,
nine-ball (a
pool
Pool may refer to:
Water pool
* Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended for swimming
* Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings
* Tide pool, a rocky po ...
discipline) and
snooker, were introduced as
World Games
The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. They are usually held every four years, one year after a Summer Olympic Games, over the course of 11 d ...
sports for men and (in the case of nine-ball) for women also at the
World Games 2001 in
Akita
is a Japanese name and may refer to:
Places
* 8182 Akita, a main-belt asteroid
* Akita Castle, a Nara period fortified settlement in Akita, Japan
* Akita Domain, also known as Kubota Domain, feudal domain in Edo period Japan
* Akita, Kumamoto ...
.
Medal table
Medallists
Three-cushion billiards
Men's singles
Pool (Nine-ball)
Men's singles
Women's singles
Snooker
See also
*
Cue sports at the Asian Games
Cue sports events were contested at the Asian Games starting from the 1998 Asian Games, 1998 Games in Bangkok.
Editions
Events
Medal table
Participating nations
List of medalists
See also
* Billiards and snooker at the Southeast Asia ...
References
{{Snooker tournaments
Sports at the World Games
World Games
The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. They are usually held every four years, one year after a Summer Olympic Games, over the course of 11 d ...