Lim Kok Leong () is a Malaysian professional snooker player. He won the 2022 IBSF World Snooker Championship, and will compete as a professional on the World Snooker Tour as of the 2024-25 snooker season.

Career

Snooker

In May 2022 he was runner-up to James Wattana at the delayed 2021 Southeast Asian Games snooker tournament. His run to the final included a 4-0 semi-final win against Passakorn Suwanawat. He also won the Men's snooker 6-red singles at the same event. That win was reported to be on his 27th birthday, on 18 May 2022, and included a 5-3 win the final against Jeffrey Roda of the Philippines. In November 2022 he beat Amir Sarkhosh of Iran 5-0 in the final of the IBSF World Snooker Championship player in Antalya, Turkey. His run to the final included a 4-0 win over

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. He became the first Malaysian snooker player to win the amateur title. In May 2023 he was a bronze medal winner at the

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, losing to Sunny Akani at the semi-final stage of the individual competition. In May 2024, he defeated Liang Xiaolong to reach the final round of the Asian Q School in Bangkok, where he beat former professional Gao Yang 4-3 to secure a two-year card on the main WST Tour.

Doubles

He is a twice winner of the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (ISBF) World Team Championships. In 2015 Lim Kok Leong won the partnered with Moh Keen Hoo, in Karachi, Pakistan after a narrow 5-4 win in the final over home team Asjad Iqbal and Shahid Aftab. In 2019 he and Moh Keen Ho won gold at the Southeast Asian Games defeating Philippines’ Alvin Barberro and Jefrey Roda 3-1 in the best-of-5 final. In October 2022 he won the World Team Snooker Championship in Kuala Lumpur, again with Moh Keen Hoo. They beat Thai pair Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn-Jong and Rak Boonrod 4-2 in the final. In May 2023 he was a silver medal winner at the

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, losing with Moh Keen Hoo to Cambodian pair Suon Chhay and Men Sophanith in the final.

Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Team finals: 3 (2 titles)

Pro-am finals: 2 (1 title)

Amateur finals: 3 (3 title)

References

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* 1995 births Living people Malaysian snooker players SEA Games gold medalists for Malaysia SEA Games silver medalists for Malaysia SEA Games medalists in cue sports Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games Competitors at the 2023 SEA Games {{Malaysia-sport-bio-stub