12 Facts About World Snooker Championship

World Snooker Championship is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament in professional snooker.

World Snooker Championship reverted to a knockout tournament format in 1969, beginning what is known as snooker's modern era.

World Snooker Championship resumed in 1946 where Joe Davis again met Lindrum in the final.

In October 1946, Joe Davis announced that he would no longer play in the World Championship, having never lost a match in the championship from its inception in 1927.

World Snooker Championship did not, in any other sense, retire from snooker, continuing to play in other tournaments and exhibition matches for many years.

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The 1974 World Snooker Championship followed a similar format but with somewhat shorter matches and event reduced to ten days.

Ronnie O'Sullivan made the fifth maximum break in the World Championship, becoming the first player to score two 147s in the event.

World Snooker Championship announced his retirement from professional snooker following his loss to Stephen Maguire in the quarter-finals.

World Snooker Championship became the first player to make six century breaks in a Crucible final.

Format of the televised stages of the World Championship has remained unchanged since 1982, with the exception of a change in the semi-final format that was introduced in 1997.

The World Snooker Championship has nearly always ended on the first Monday in May since the World Snooker Championship first became a 17-day event in 1982, but there have been five exceptions.

The fifth and most recent instance of the tournament starting on a Friday was the 2020 edition: due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Snooker Championship was played from Friday 31 July to Sunday 16 August.