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Geet Sethi crowned World Billiards Champion for the 8th Time!
Geet Sethi has won the Billiards World Championship an amazing
6 times! In a career spanning 14 years and counting, Geet has won
every honour possible in the game and seems in no mood to quit.
In December 1998 he powered to gold and silver medal winning performances
at the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand and now has his sights
set on an Olympic Gold medal for India, when billiards and snooker
attain Olympic Sport status.
Career Highlights
- World Amateur Billiards Champion: 1985 and 1987
- World Professional Billiards Champion: 1992, 1993, 1995 and 1998
- Asian Billiards Champion: 1987
- Gold Medallist at the 13th Asian Games, Bangkok 1998
- National Billiards Champion: 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1997 and 1998
- National Snooker Champion: 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988
Records:
Featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the first
amateur in the world, to compile the maximum 147 break in Competition.
Constructed a break of 1276 in the 1992 World Professional Billiards
Championship, which is the World Record under the three pot rule and was
the highest break made in the last five decades.
Awards:
- Padma Shri in 1986
- Arjuna Award in 1986
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1992-93
- KK Birla Award in 1993
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