2016 Warld Snooker Championship
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The 2016 Warld Snooker Championship[lower-alpha 1] wis a professional snooker toornament, that teuk place frae 16 Apryle tae 2 May 2016 a the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The event wis the 40th year that the Warld Snooker Championship haed been held at the venue. It wis the tenth an last rankin event o the 2015/2016 saison.
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Tournament information | |
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Dates | 16 April–2 May 2016 |
Venue | Crucible Theatre |
City | Sheffield |
Kintra | England |
Organisation(s) | Warld Professional Billiards and Snooker Association |
Format | Rankin event |
Total prize fund | £1,500,100 |
Winner's share | £330,000 |
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Champion | ![]() |
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Score | 18–14 |
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The defendin champion wis Stuart Bingham, haein defeatit Shaun Murphy i the 2015 event feenal. Bingham lost 9–10 against Ali Carter i the first roond fawin tae the Crucible curse, becomin the 17t first-time champion unable t defen his title a the venue. Cheenae's Ding Junhui and Scot Alan McManus set a new record in thair semi-final for the maist century braks achieved i a professional match, scoring ten. Ding an aw setting a new record for the maist centuries bi ane player i a single warld championship match wi seiven. Ding defeatit McManus tae acome the first Asian player ever tae reach a Warld Championship feenal. In the ither semi-final, Englishman Mark Selby and Hong Konganese Marco Fu set a new record for the langest frame o snooker ever played at the Crucible, at 76 minutes 11 seconds.
Efter beatin Robert Milkins 10–6, Sam Baird 13–11, Kyren Wilson 13–8, an Fu 17–15, Selby defeatit Ding 18–14 in the feenal tae claim his seicont Warld title, havin won the 2014 event previously. A tot o 86 century braks wae made a the event, the same nummer as the previous year, wi Kyren Wilson makin the toornament's heichest break o 143. The tot global audiences for the tournament exceetit 300 million, wi 210 million viewers in Cheenae alone. The afternoon sessions o the feenal war watched bi audiences o 45 million in Cheenae, the kintra's lairgest audience for a sporting event that year. During the toornament, sax-time champion Steve Davis played the last professional match o his 38-year career against Fergal O'Brien in the qualifiers; he annoonced his retiremen later during the first roond o the even.