ABSF African Snooker Championships

Summary

The ABSC African Snooker Championship is an annual snooker competition and is the highest ranking and most prestigious amateur event in Africa. The event series is sanctioned by the African Billiards & Snooker Confederation. Having been established back in 1993, the winner of the event often becomes the African nomination for the World Snooker Tour. Throughout the tournament’s early history the championship was dominated by South African players, however at the turn of the millennium Egyptian players became the dominant force in the championship, winning 11 of 15 championships since the year 2000.

ABSC African Snooker Championship
Tournament information
Established1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Organisation(s)African Billiards & Snooker Confederation
FormatAmateur event
Recent edition2023
Current champion Mostafa Dorgham (EGY)

The championship is currently held by Mostafa Dorgham who defeated Mohamed Khairy 5–2 in the final of the 2023 All-Africa Snooker & 6-Red Championship.

Men's finals edit

[1]

Year Venue Winner Runner-up Score
1993 Unknown   Ismael Teeluck Unknown
1994   Port Louis, Mauritius   Bernie Jones   Schalk Mouton 11–10
1995   Durban, South Africa   Warren Horsley   Bernie Jones 11–8
1996 Unknown   Hitesh Naran Unknown
1997–1998 Unknown
1999[2]   Cairo, Egypt   Warren Horsley   Munier Cassim 6–5
2000[3]   Casablanca, Morocco   Mohamed El Hamy   Sherif Senna 5–4
2001 Unknown
2002   Cairo, Egypt   Hesham Abbas   Wael Talaat 5–2
2003–2006 Unknown
2007[4]   Casablanca, Morocco   Wael Talaat   Mohamed Samy Elkhayat 5–4
2008[5]   Tripoli, Libya   Mohamed El Hamy   Mohamed Samy Elkhayat 6–2
2009[6]   Johannesburg, South Africa   Wael Talaat   Mohamed Samy Elkhayat 6–0
2010   Cairo, Egypt   Mohamed Samy Elkhayat   Wael Talaat 6–1
2011[7]   Cairo, Egypt   Wael Talaat   Mohamed El Hamy 6–4
2012[8]   Johannesburg, South Africa   Peter Francisco   Mohamed Khairy 6–2
2013[9]   Marrakech, Morocco   Peter Francisco   Khaled Belaid Abumdas 6–2
2014 Unknown
2015[10]   Tunis, Tunisia   Hatem Yassen   Mohamed Khairy 6–5
2016   Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt   Peter Francisco   Wael Talaat 6–1
2017   Hammamet, Tunisia   Basem Eltahhan   Wael Talaat 6–5
2018[11]   Cairo, Egypt   Mohamed Ibrahim   Mostafa Dorgham 6–1
2019[12]   Rabat, Morocco   Amine Amiri   Abdelhamid Abdelrahman 5–4
2022   Casablanca, Morocco   Mohamed Ibrahim   Hesham Shawky 5–4
2023[13]   Casablanca, Morocco   Mostafa Dorgham   Mohamed Khairy 5–2

Champions by country edit

Champions by country
Country Players Total First title Last title
  Egypt 8 12 2000 2023
  South Africa 4 7 1994 2016
  Mauritius 1 1 1993 1993
  Morocco 1 1 2019 2019

Women's finals edit

Year Venue Winner Runner-up Score Ref.
2015 Tunis, Tunisia   Jeanne Young (ZAF) Round-robin [14]
2022 Casablanca, Morocco   Yousra Matine (MAR) Zineb Likaimi 3–0 [15]
2023 Casablanca, Morocco   Bennani Hind (MAR)   Yasmine Yathrib (MAR) 3–0 [13]

See also edit

References edit

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  3. ^ "2000 African Snooker Championship" (PDF). African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  4. ^ "The African Snooker Championship - Morocco 2007". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Retrieved 26 July 2015.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "The African Snooker Championship - Libya 2008". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. ^ "The 2009 All Africa Snooker Championship". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 17 December 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  7. ^ "The African Snooker Championship 2011". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  8. ^ "2012 ALL AFRICA SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  9. ^ "The African Snooker Championship - Marrakech 2013". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
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  11. ^ Snooker Scene, June 2018, page 39
  12. ^ African Games
  13. ^ a b "Dorgham beats Khairy to Aftican Title". World Snooker Tour. 22 June 2023. Archived from the original on June 27, 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  14. ^ Stead, Marcus (July 2015). "Tournament winners". Around the world. Snooker Scene. p. 41.
  15. ^ "Snooker african championship (women) - The Final Yousra Matine vs Zineb Likaimi". L’Association Nationale des Sports de Billard et de Snooker (Maroc). 24 June 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2023.