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Peter Gilchrist (billiards player)

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Name
  
Peter Gilchrist

Role
  
Billiards Player


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Highest break
  
1346 (Billiards), 125 (Snooker, 1994 World Snooker Championship)

Best ranking finish
  
Last 128 (1994 World Snooker Championship)

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Peter Gilchrist (born 1968 in Middlesbrough) is an English born Singaporean English billiards player.

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Gilchrist won the WPBSA World Championships in 1994, 2001 and in 2013.

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In 2003, Gilchrist moved to Singapore to become the national billiards and snooker coach.

In 2006, Gilchrist become a Singapore citizen under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme as a two-time world billiards champion (1994 and 2001) while competing for England.

He has also represented Singapore in the SEA Games in 2009, where he won Gold for English Billiards Singles, and Bronze for the doubles.

He also set the world record for highest break in billiards (1346) under modern rules, at the New Zealand Open Billiards Championships.

On 14 February 2014, he scored his second 1000 break at the World Billiards Irish Open. He is the only player of the modern era who scored more than one 1000 points in tournament break.

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References

Peter Gilchrist (billiards player) Wikipedia