The 1993 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1993 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 April and 3 May 1993 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
Stephen Hendry won his third World title by defeating Jimmy White 18–5 in the final. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.
James Wattana of Thailand became the first player from the Far East to reach the semi-finals of the event.
Ronnie O'Sullivan made his World Championship debut at the age of 17 years and 5 months, making him the second-youngest player since Hendry in 1986. O'Sullivan lost against Alan McManus 7–10 in the first round.
During his first round match, Stephen Hendry compiled the 250th century break at the Crucible in frame three.
Hendry beating White 18–5 was only the third time since the championship moved to the Crucible, and to date the last, that the title was settled in the afternoon with a session to spare.
Dennis Taylor's 13-11 second round victory over Terry Griffiths set a record for the longest best-of-25-frames match in professional play at almost 800 minutes.
Spencer Dunn, making his debut at the Crucible, won eleven qualifying matches - a tournament record - in order to do so. He defeated Ian Bullimore 5–1, Colin Mitchell by the same scoreline, Elliott Clark 5–4, Neil Selman 5–1, Julian Goodyear 5–1, Kieran McAlinden 5–4, Mehmet Husnu 5–2, Bill Oliver 10–2, Colin Roscoe 10–7, Dave Harold 10–7 and Mark Bennett 10–9, before his first-round match against Bond. Fellow debutants O'Sullivan and John Giles had won ten qualifying matches.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £175,000
Runner-up: £105,000
Semi-final: £52,000
Quarter-final: £26,000
Last 16: £14,000
Last 32: £8,000
Highest break: £14,400
Maximum break: £100,000
Total: £1,000,000
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).
There were 35 century breaks in the championship, a new record beating the 31 centuries of 1991. The highest break of the event was a 144 made by Steve Davis.
