Indian Cueists win 23 medals during 2018
PANKAJ LAY HOLD OF BILLIARDS; AMEE, KEERTHANA LIFTS MAIDEN TITLES
The
year 2018 remained full of medals for India and
our
cueists shown their grit to win at Asian and
IBSF
World Championships.
India’s celebrated cueist Pankaj Advani took his tally of World
titles to 21 by winning both the World Billiards formats (150-Up and
Long-Up) for the year 2018. He also won the Asian Billiards title
for the year 2018.
The Asian Confederation of Billiards Sport also introduced Asian
Ranking Tour with new format of 10Reds Snooker. This series includes
three championships and in that also Pankaj won two medals in two
championships. The first event held in Doha where Pankaj missed the
gold by losing semi-final bout and settled for Bronze but in the
next, he conquered all around and won the Gold at Jinan, China.
Third championship is yet to take place very soon.
In addition to above, Pankaj and his partner Manan Chandra emerged
as Champion in the newly introduced World Team Snooker Cup 2018 by
defeating Team Pakistan in a thrilling decider. Overall Pankaj
bagged total 7 medals during 2018.
Year 2018 was also memorable for women cueists when Indore based
Amee Kamani becomes the first Indian women cueist to win the Asian
Women Snooker Championship. Amee knocked out Thai player Siripaporn
Nuanthakhamjan in straight set of frames 3-0.
Taking cue from the senior, Bengaluru based junior cueist, Keerthana
Pandian also shown her talent in World Under-16 Women championship
and won gold by defeating Belarus player Albina Leschuk 3-1.
The list of all medal winners as follows:
S. # |
Championships |
Player(s) |
MEDAL |
1 |
Asian Men Billiards |
Pankaj Advani |
GOLD |
2 |
Asian Men Billiards |
B. Bhaskar |
SILVER |
3 |
Asian Men Billiards |
Rupes Shah |
BRONZE |
4 |
Asian Men Billiards |
Dhvaj Haria |
BRONZE |
5 |
Asian Women Snooker |
Amee Kamani |
GOLD |
6 |
Asian Women Snooker |
Keerath Bhandaal |
BRONZE |
7 |
Asian Team Snooker |
Pankaj Advani / Manan Chandra / Malkeet Singh |
SILVER |
8 |
Asian Ranking 10 Red - 1 |
Pankaj Advani |
BRONZE |
9 |
Asian Ranking 10 Red - 2 |
Pankaj Advani |
GOLD |
10 |
World Under-16 Men |
Digvijay Kadian |
BRONZE |
11 |
World Under-16 Women |
Keerthana Pandian |
GOLD |
12 |
World Under-16 Women |
Anupama Ramachandran |
BRONZE |
13 |
World Cup Team Snooker |
Pankaj Advani / Manan Chandra |
GOLD |
14 |
World Billiards (150-Up) |
Pankaj Advani |
GOLD |
15 |
World Billiards (Long-Up) |
Pankaj Advani |
GOLD |
16 |
World Billiards (Long-Up) |
B. Bhaskar |
SILVER |
17 |
World Billiards (Long-Up) |
Sourav Kothari |
BRONZE |
18 |
World Women Snooker |
Amee Kamani |
BRONZE |
19 |
World Team Snooker (Men) |
Divya Sharma / Aayush Kumar |
BRONZE |
20 |
World Team Snooker (Women) |
Vidya Pillai / Amee Kamani |
SILVER |
21 |
World Team Snooker (Masters) |
Alok Kumar / Rafath Habib |
SILVER |
22 |
World 6Reds (Men) |
Alok Kumar |
BRONZE |
23 |
World 6Reds (Women) |
Amee Kamani |
BRONZE |
New Delhi
:: 31 December 2018
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