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IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship

annual amateur snooker tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1285570 ↗
Source-derived summary

The IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship (also known as the World Amateur Under-21 Snooker Championship) is the premier non-professional junior snooker tournament in the world. The event series is sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation and started from 1987.

Five winners of this men's junior event later won the World Snooker Championship: Ken Doherty, Peter Ebdon, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Neil Robertson, and Wu Yize.

Four winners of the women's event would later win the World Women's Snooker Championship: Baipat Siripaporn, Bai Yulu, Mink Nutcharut and Panchaya Channoi. Bi Zhu Qing would later win the 2011 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship.

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“IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship” enters the record as annual amateur snooker tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what IBSF, World and Under-21 can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987. Its strongest next move is a source search built around IBSF, World and Under-21.
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“IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, IBSF, World and Under-21 provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1285570. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.