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1983 World Snooker Championship

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Dates
  
16 April–2 May 1983

City
  
Sheffield

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Crucible Theatre

Country
  
England

Format
  
Ranking event

The 1983 World Snooker Championship (also known as the 1983 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 April and 2 May 1983 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

Contents

Steve Davis won in the final 18–6 against Cliff Thorburn. The tournament was sponsored by Embassy.

Tournament summary

  • The championship is notable for the first-ever maximum break at a World Snooker Championship. Canada's Cliff Thorburn achieved it in the fourth frame of his second round match against Terry Griffiths. The final session of the match lasted more than seven hours and finished at 3:51 am, the latest finish at the Crucible.
  • Thorburn then played Kirk Stevens in the quarter-final, which he won 13–12; finishing at 2:12 am. Thorburn defeated Tony Knowles 16–15 in the semi-finals, but lost in the final 6–18 to Steve Davis with a session to spare. Thorburn was exhausted during the final due to winning his last three matches in the deciding frame. He played 14 hours more than Davis.

    • Prize fund

    The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

  • Winner: £30,000
  • Runner up: £15,000
  • Semi-finals: £8,400
  • Quarter-finals: £4,450
  • Last 16: £2,950
  • Last 32: £1,500
  • Highest break: £3,000
  • Maximum break: £10,000
  • Total: £135,000

    • Main draw

    Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).

    Century breaks

    There were eighteen century breaks during the championship, a record which stood until 1986. The highest break of the event was 147 by Cliff Thorburn. With this record he earned a £5,000 bonus.

    References

    1983 World Snooker Championship Wikipedia
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