Who was the first snooker player to have a maximum 147 break at the World Snooker Championships?
"the famous 1985 final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor, which Taylor won on the final black in the deciding frame. He was also the referee during Cliff Thorburn's maximum break against Terry Griffiths. He retired from refereeing after the 2002 World Championship final, in which Peter Ebdon beat Stephen Hendry in another final-frame decider. There have been three final-frame deciders at the world championships, and Williams has refereed them all. Williams made a return to snooker refereeing when he officiated matches in the 2011 World Seniors Championship, and returned for the 2012 tournament. John Williams (snooker referee) John Williams"
"creating a potential maximum break of 155 if a player starts from a free ball position. In October 2004, during qualifying for the UK Championship, Jamie Burnett became the only player to record a break of more than 147 in tournament play, when he scored 148 against Leo Fernandez. He took the brown as the free ball, then potted the brown again followed by the 15 reds with 12 blacks, two pinks and a blue, then the six colours. On a few occasions, breaks exceeding 147 have been reported in non-tournament settings: Maximum break In snooker, under normal circumstances, the"
"John Spencer (snooker player) John Spencer (18 September 1935 – 11 July 2006) was an English professional snooker player who won the World Professional title at his first attempt, was the first winner at the Crucible Theatre, was the inaugural winner of the Masters and Irish Masters and was the first player to make a 147 break in competition. This is regarded as an unofficial maximum break as the event used non templated tables. Spencer was born in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. Spencer started his snooker career at the age of 15. Snooker was in decline during his youth, and he"
"the first player to make a maximum at the World Championships. Maximum breaks are rare in snooker, with it taking until 2013 for 100 maximums to be scored in professional competition. However they have gradually become more frequent in the game; with only eight maximums being achieved in the 1980s, however, 35 in the 2000s. The record for the most maximum breaks in professional competition is held by Ronnie O'Sullivan with 15. He also holds the record for the fastest competitive maximum break, at just over five minutes, which he achieved at the 1997 World Championship. Breaks greater than 147"
"when winning a 4th frame, regardless of how many frames the other player has. In professional tournaments there was usually a substantial prize awarded to any player achieving a 147 break. For example, Ronnie O'Sullivan's maximum at the 1997 World Championship earned him £165,000. Of this, £147,000 was for making the 147 break and £18,000 was for achieving the highest break of the tournament. This was however abolished in the 2010/2011 season. In the 2011/2012 season World Snooker introduced a roll-over system for the maximum break prize money, the ""rolling 147 prize"". A maximum break is worth £5,000 in the"
"from his position in November 1996, he had been a member of the governing board for 25 years. John Spencer (snooker player) John Spencer (18 September 1935 – 11 July 2006) was an English professional snooker player who won the World Professional title at his first attempt, was the first winner at the Crucible Theatre, was the inaugural winner of the Masters and Irish Masters and was the first player to make a 147 break in competition. This is regarded as an unofficial maximum break as the event used non templated tables. Spencer was born in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. Spencer"
"not worthy of a 147. World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn called the decision ""unacceptable"" and ""disrespectful"". A break higher than 147 can be achieved when an opponent before any reds are potted, and leaves the incoming player (blocked) on all 15 reds. The player can nominate one of the other as a red, known as a """", which carries the same value as a red for just that shot. If the free ball is potted, the referee places back this colored ball on its original location, ""de facto"" creating a setup as if there were 16 reds in total, thus"
"by any professional player. Following him are Stephen Hendry with eleven, John Higgins with eight, and Ding Junhui with six. O'Sullivan also holds the record for the fastest competitive maximum break at just over 5 minutes, which he set at the 1997 World Championship. In 2013, Mark Selby made the 100th maximum break. At least seven players have missed the final black on 140: Robin Hull, Ken Doherty, Barry Pinches, Mark Selby, Michael White, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (twice in the 2015–16 season), and Liang Wenbo (in 2018). Breaks above 147 are possible when an opponent fouls and leaves a with all"
"red then a pink, before failing to pot the next red. The traditional maximum break in snooker is achieved by potting all reds with blacks then all colours, yielding 147 points; this is often known as a ""147"" or a ""maximum"". The highest possible break is a 155 break, also known as a ""super maximum"". This is achieved via the opponent leaving a , with the black being potted as the additional colour, and then potting 15 reds and blacks with the colours. Jamie Cope has the distinction of being the first player in snooker history to post a verified"
"2013). Davis reached his first ranking event final in 2018, where he lost to Stuart Bingham in the final of the English Open. Davis is the oldest snooker player to make an official maximum break of 147 points in a professional competition, at the age of 44 years and 202 days. He broke his own previous record of 44 years and 151 days, making his second maximum break 51 days after his first. Davis made his debut in the main draw of the World Championship in 1994, losing in the first round to Terry Griffiths. The following year he won"
"below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers). There were 48 century breaks in the 1996 World Snooker Championship, a new record which would last until 1998. The highest break of the tournament was 144 made by both Peter Ebdon and Tony Drago. This was only the second time since 1980, when Kirk Stevens and Steve Davis both made a 136, that two players had the joint highest break of the championship. Stephen Hendry made 11 century breaks in the"
"Maximum and Century breaks made by Ronnie O'Sullivan Ronnie O'Sullivan holds both the record for the most amount of competitive century and maximum breaks, as well as the fastest maximum break of all time, in the game of Snooker. Ronnie O'Sullivan has made fifteen maximum breaks in recorded, competitive play. This is the highest number of such maximums completed by any player in the history of the game. Moreover, this total does not account for his controversial decision, mentioned above in the summary of the 2015/2016 season, to deliberately refuse at least one almost guaranteed 147, which he did during"
"Cliff Thorburn Clifford Charles Devlin ""Cliff"" Thorburn (born January 16, 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. He won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, the first player from outside the United Kingdom to win the title in the sport's modern era. He was also ranked number one that year. In 1983, Thorburn became the first player to compile a maximum break at the World Championship. He is one of two snooker players inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the other being George Chenier. His slow, determined style of play earned him the nickname ""The Grinder"". Thorburn first"
"2007 against Ali Carter. The fourth 147 was made in 2011 by Hendry against Stephen Maguire. This was Hendry's 10th 147 break and with this he equalled the record for most maximums with Ronnie O'Sullivan. He also became the oldest player to compile a maximum break at the age of 42 years and 35 days. The fifth was made by O'Sullivan in 2014 against Ding Junhui. This was O'Sullivan's 12th 147 break and with it he set the record for most maximums. The most recent maximum break was made by Ding Junhui at the quarter-finals of the 2016 tournament, against"
"Jamie Jones (snooker player) Jamie Jones (born 14 February 1988) is a Welsh professional snooker player, from Neath. He was the youngest ever player, at age 14, to make a maximum 147 break in competition, a record that has since been beaten by Judd Trump. At the 2012 World Snooker Championship he reached his first ranking quarter-final. He made his second appearance in the quarter-finals of a Triple Crown tournament at the 2016 UK Championship. Jamie Jones made the 141st official maximum break in the third frame of his last 64 match against Lee Walker at the 2018 Paul Hunter"
"future world champion John Pulman who each both won it on two occasions. He made history in 1955 by achieving the first officially recognised maximum break of 147 in snooker in an exhibition match at Leicester Square Hall. He had previously made the game's first official in 1930. In 1959 Davis attempted to popularise a new version of the game called snooker plus. This game had two extra , an orange and a purple and was used for the 1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament but it never took off. In 1962, when over 60 years of age,"
"Century break In snooker, a century break (sometimes referred to as a ton) is a score of 100 points or more within one at the table without missing a shot and requires potting at least 25 consecutive balls. The ability to score century is regarded as a mark of the highest skill in snooker, while the first career century has been described by Ronnie O'Sullivan as the ""ultimate milestone for any snooker player"". Over 20,000 century breaks have been recorded by snooker players throughout professional tournaments. In 2014, Neil Robertson became the first person to have scored over 100 century"
"in 2007 and superseded in 2009. The highest break of the tournament was 145, made by Matthew Stevens during his quarter-final match against Higgins. This was just the second time that the highest break of the tournament was 145, after Doug Mountjoy's in 1981. Hendry made 16 century breaks during the tournament, the record for most centuries at a ranking event. 2002 World Snooker Championship The 2002 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2002 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 April and 6 May"
"scored one of the early snooker maximum breaks in a practice frame at the Beaufort Club in London. An official of the BACC later examined the table and found it slightly over the standard size and so the break was not accepted as official. At the time Joe Davis held the record for the highest official break of 146. Lindrum did not play in the 1951/1952 News of the World Snooker Tournament, his last competitive tournament being the 1951 World Snooker Championship. In that championship he had lost to Walter Donaldson in the semi-final, Donaldson taking a winning 36–25 lead"
"players were invited to compete: 2016 IBSF World Snooker Championship winner Soheil Vahedi of Iran was also invited, but could not obtain a visa in time to compete. Also, two amateurs, English player Andy Hicks and Polish player Adam Stefanów were invited to replace the absent professionals Jamie Burnett and Rouzi Maimaiti. They were chosen as top-ranked players in the 2016 Q School Order of Merit, who had not already qualified for the tournament. Winners advanced to the main draw. 74 century breaks were made by 23 players in the main stage of the World Championship. 84 century breaks –"
"as to the socio-economically disadvantaged, who might have benefitted from a charitable donation of the ostensibly insufficient prize money. However, in addition to conceding that in hindsight he would rather have given the money to charity, Ronnie has defended his behaviour. In an interview, he asserted his right to enhance his own enjoyment of the game, as well as the spectacle for his fans, by engaging in such characterful, mischievous, and showmanlike behaviour. O'Sullivan's first 147 break, against Mick Price in their second round tie at the 1997 world championship, set a still-standing world record for the fastest maximum in"
"the cue ball ""in-hand"" for his first shot. Play then continues normally until the black is potted or another frame-ending situation occurs. The highest break that can be made under normal circumstances is 147. To achieve that, the player must pot all 15 reds, with the black after every red, followed by potting the six remaining colours. This ""maximum break"" of 147 rarely occurs in match play. The fastest maximum break in a tournament was achieved during the World Championships on April 21, 1997, by Ronnie O'Sullivan against Mick Price in 5 minutes and 20 seconds. If an opponent fouls"
"Warren King (snooker player) Warren King (born 1 April 1955) is a former professional Australian snooker player who was active during the 1980s and 1990s. He reached his highest ranking position, 35th, for the 1985/1986 season, and was the runner-up in the 1990 Classic, where he lost 6–10 to Steve James. In 1994 King made the 1st 147 break in a tournament in Australia and in doing do became the 1st Australian to make a 147 break in a tournament. King turned professional in 1982, but first enjoyed success in the 1983/1984 season, when he qualified for the semi-final group"
"of prize money for this year is shown below: Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers). There were 18 century breaks at the championship, the highest of the tournament being 127 by Davis. Davis' 127 is the lowest ever highest break recorded in the Crucible. Dene O'Kane's 132 was the highest break of the qualifying stages. 1987 World Snooker Championship The 1987 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1987 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes"
"1927 World Snooker Championship The 1927 World Snooker Championship was a snooker tournament held at various venues throughout the season. This was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was organised by Joe Davis and Bill Camkin. The final took place at the Camkin's Hall in Birmingham, England with Joe Davis winning the title by defeating Tom Dennis. Originally called the Professional Snooker Championship, it did not become the World Championship until 1935. The highest break of the tournament was 60, made by Albert Cope in his match against Joe Davis. In recognition of this break Cope later received a"
"is the highest in World Championship history, ahead of the 83 scored in 2009. For every century break made during the 17-day championship in Sheffield, the title sponsor, Betfred, was due to donate £200 to World Snooker’s official charity, the Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. However, in line with the sponsor's declaration, the donation was rounded up to £25,000 as at least 70 centuries were achieved. There were 83 century breaks in the qualifying stage of the World Championship: 2015 World Snooker Championship The 2015 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2015 Betfred World Snooker Championship for the purposes"
"time in a break which would result in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds, and this is the time that World Snooker now officially acknowledges. However, this methodology for timing breaks is inconsistent with the one employed in shot clock events where timing for a player's shot begins when the balls have come to rest from his opponent's previous shot, and under this convention the break would have been timed at 5 minutes and 15 seconds. A full list of O'Sullivan's competitive maximum breaks are listed below: O'Sullivan began the 2017/2018 season with 874 career total century breaks."
"Champion Stephen Hendry. He retired in 2004. He is now a maths teacher and plays local league snooker. Mick Price (snooker player) Michael ""Mick"" Price (born June 2, 1966 in Nuneaton) is a retired English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 1988 and is best known for being Ronnie O'Sullivan's opponent when O'Sullivan scored the fastest 147 break in the game's history, at the 1997 World Championship. O'Sullivan won the match by 10–6. At the 1990 Benson & Hedges Satellite Championships, Mick became only the third player to compile three consecutive century breaks (in professional competition) when making contributions"
"for compiling a higher break than the championship record of 142. 1979 World Snooker Championship The 1979 World Snooker Championship (also known as the 1979 Embassy World Snooker Championship for sponsorship purposes) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 28 April 1979 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. Terry Griffiths won in the final 24–16 against Dennis Taylor. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Numbers in (parentheses) indicate seedings. Sources: Source: There were 13 century breaks at the championship, the highest"
"money and ranking points of the event is shown below: Best of 7 frames Best of 7 frames Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 10 The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 10 was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27–30 November 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England. David Gray made the 80th official maximum break during his round 2 preliminary match against Robbie Williams. This was Gray's second 147 break. Ricky Walden made the 81st official maximum break during his last 128 match against Gareth Allen. This was Walden's first 147 break. Michael"
"defined as series of consecutive by a player during a single , scoring 100 points over the course of a whole frame does not necessarily constitute a century break, as it must be done on a single turn at the table. Points for a foul shot by the opponent do not count in a player's break. Under normal circumstances, the highest possible century in snooker is 147 (a ""maximum break""), composed of 15 reds (one point each), 15 blacks (seven points each) and the six remaining colours; yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black potted consecutively (two through seven points"
"2014 Championship League The 2014 Championship League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 6 January to 6 March 2014 at the Crondon Park Golf Club in Stock, England. Shaun Murphy made the 103rd official maximum break during his league stage match against Mark Davis in group two. This was Murphy's second official 147 break and the sixth in the 2013/2014 season. It was also the first maximum break in the history of the tournament. During the same day Neil Robertson defeated Joe Perry 3–0. During the match he made three century breaks, which took the number"
"break in the second frame of the day. Sources: 1930 World Snooker Championship The 1930 World Snooker Championship was a snooker tournament played in various locations throughout the season. The final was held at the Thurston's Hall in London, England from 19 to 23 May. Joe Davis won his fourth World title by defeating Tom Dennis 25–12. Davis made a 79 break in the final, the highest break in the history of the tournament, breaking his own record set in the previous year. Tom Newman met Nat Butler at Newman's Club in St John's Wood, London. Newman led 5–3 on"