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Bay City, Michigan – The highly anticipated 2024 WPA SYKRS World Artistic Pool Championships is set to take place from 12-15 February at the Boys and Girls Club, Michigan, USA. This prestigious event will once again attract players from around the globe, vying for the title of World Champion in eight discipline categories as well as the overall World Artistic Pool Champion!

The final of the Sharm El Sheikh World Cup was played by two of the hardest-to-beat professionals in the world: Marco Zanetti and Eddy Merckx. In a strange, two-faced match the Italian had the last word: 50-46 in 28. The Belgian had been as good as handcuffed for the first twenty innings, which must have been frustrating. It was also a testament to Zanetti’s perfect defence. Merckx broke loose with a wonderful run of 15, to change 46-31 into 46-46. Zanetti instantly replied with a winning run of four, to win the fifth World Cup in his long career. The last time he won a WC, was also in Sharm, in 2019. His five Cups put him eighth on the all-time list, now ahead of Sang Chun Lee. 

The IBSF is pleased to announce that the 2025 IBSF World Billiards Championship will be played from April 12 to 16, 2025, in the SBI academy in Carlow, Ireland. We thank Snooker and Billiards Ireland for agreeing to host this prestigious event in their excellent academy.

The 2024 VenBilliards Corporation WPA Women’s World 10-Ball Championship concluded with a thrilling final that saw Kristina Tkach claim her first-ever world title, defeating Seoa in a rollercoaster match that lasted over 4 hours and included 30 intense racks.

The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is pleased to announce the official sponsors for The World Games, which will be held in Chengdu, China, from August 7-17, 2025.

He will turn sixty next year, but there is no talk of retirement. Jaspers loves his billiards too much to go sit on the porch. And he loves winning World Cups, as he did this week in Seoul for the 31^st time, beating Tayfun Tasdemir in the final: 50-36 in 20/19 innings. If the new generation wants to take the crown away from this Dutchman, they will have to match his mental strength and professionalism. That’s a big ask. 

Muhammad Asif from Pakistan has made history by winning the 2024 IBSF World Men’s Snooker Championship, securing his third world title. This remarkable achievement makes Asif only the second player in history, after India’s Pankaj Advani, to win the prestigious title three times.

Michael Georgiou of Cyprus has secured a medal for his country after a gripping 4-3 victory over China’s Xiaolong Liang in a match that lasted nearly three hours. The 2023 IBSF World 6-Red Champion fought back from a narrow loss in the first frame to claim the decisive win.

The general assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal.

Who can stop the Vietnamese tsunami? Not even Frédéric Caudron could do it. In a tense final where nerves were eating away at both finalists, the precision master from Ho Chi Minh overcame the fluency genius from Turnhout: 50-38 in 28/27 innings. 

WCBS Board Members attended the IF Forum 2024 in Lausanne, Switzerland and met with sports leaders from around the world.