15 time world champion settles for IBSF World Snooker Championship bronze

Q.  Which Indian snooker player won the bronze at IBSF World Snooker Championship?
- Published on 01 Dec 16

a. Pankaj Advani
b. Pankaj Seth
c. Pankaj Mehta
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Pankaj Advani
 
15 time world champion settles for IBSF World Snooker Championship bronze15 time world champion Pankaj Advani suffered a 2-7 loss in IBSF World Snooker Championship 2016 semifinals against Andrew Pagett of Wales. He won the bronze medal as a result of this.

He is an Indian professional player of English billiards and former professional snooker player

He has won the following awards:
  • Arjuna Award(2004)
  • Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (2006)
  • Padma Shri (2009)

    Records broken by Pankaj Advani
  • He has achieved a hat-trick of hat-tricks in English billiards.
  • He held World, Asian, and Indian National Championship titles simultaneously, in three different years: 2005, 2008 and 2012.
  • Became a snooker professional only in 2012.
  • Advani won the 2014 IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship,
  • Only player to win world titles in both the long and short formats of snooker.
  • Also only snooker champion for both formats of English billiards.

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