Terry Griffiths reached the final of the event where he defeated Dennis Taylor by 24 to 16.
21 Facts About Terry Griffiths
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In 1988, Terry Griffiths again reached the final of the competition.
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Terry Griffiths reached at least the quarter-finals of the World Championship for nine consecutive years, from 1984 to 1992.
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Terry Griffiths won the Masters in 1980 and the UK Championship in 1982, completing snooker's Triple Crown.
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Terry Griffiths was runner-up at the Masters three times and reached the final of the 1989 European Open, where he lost the to John Parrott.
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Terry Griffiths retired from the professional tour in 1996 to become the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association's director of coaching.
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Terry Griffiths subsequently began working as a bus conductor, a job which gave him more time to practise.
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Terry Griffiths later worked as a postman and as an insurance salesman.
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At age 17, Terry Griffiths won the West Wales snooker championship.
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Terry Griffiths compiled his first century break at age 24, the first year he entered the Welsh Amateur Championship.
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Terry Griffiths played in the amateur home internationals fourteen times, winning twelve of his matches; after winning the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975, he reached the quarter-finals of the 1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship.
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Terry Griffiths became a professional player on 1 June 1978 after he was accepted as a member by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association at its meeting during the 1978 World Snooker Championship.
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Terry Griffiths was the second player to win the championship after playing in qualifying competition, and the first to win it at the Crucible in Sheffield, the venue for the championship since 1977, as a qualifier.
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Terry Griffiths was named the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year for 1979, and was the subject for a This Is Your Life episode the following year.
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Terry Griffiths won several further invitational events, including Pot Black in 1984, and the 1984 Malaysian Masters.
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Two months before the 1986 World Snooker Championship, Terry Griffiths began working with coach Frank Callan.
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Terry Griffiths ended the season by winning the 1986 Pontins Professional, defeating Willie Thorne in the final.
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Terry Griffiths dropped one place in the world rankings, to sixth, at the end of the season.
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Terry Griffiths received an OBE appointment in 2007 for his "services to snooker".
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Terry Griffiths launched "SQ", a handicapping system for snooker, in 2021.
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Terry Griffiths died in his hometown of Llanelli, on 1 December 2024, at the age of 77.