Snooker legend Jimmy White rolls back the years with stunning victory… 43 years after making debut in tournament

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JIMMY WHITE rolled backmost the years with an emphatic triumph astatine the UK Snooker Championship... 43 years aft his debut successful the tournament.

Veteran White, 62, archetypal featured astatine the lawsuit each the mode backmost successful 1981.

Jimmy White won his archetypal qualifying lucifer for the 2024 UK Championship

A fresh-faced White reached the semi-finals connected his debut successful 1981

And helium reached the semi-finals connected a stunning debut, beating John Virgo, Dennis Taylor and Ray Reardon connected his mode to the last four.

There, the teen was undone 9-0 by eventual champion Steve Davis.

White went connected to scope the last successful 1987 and 1991 but had to settee for the runner-up prize successful some years.

But helium yet got his hands connected the trophy successful 1992, exacting revenge connected John Parrott from 12 months earlier.

Now, White is inactive plugging away connected the pro snooker tour.

And connected Sunday helium headed to Leicester to statesman his 2024 UK Championship campaign.

White faced Paul Deaville successful his opening circular of qualifying astatine the Mattioli Arena.

And the erstwhile satellite No2 saw disconnected his hostile 42 years his inferior with a 6-2 win.

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It is the 2nd clip successful conscionable a fewer weeks White has been 2004-born Deaville, having done truthful on his tally to the Northern Ireland Open past 32.

The triumph included a brace of half-centuries, including a interruption of 78 successful the last framework to clinch the victory.

Snooker fable Jimmy White walks retired of lucifer astatine Northern Ireland Open astatine captious constituent leaving hostile and ref bemused

White, presently ranked No90 successful the world, volition inactive request to triumph different 3 matches successful qualifying to publication his spot successful the archetypal circular of the event, which starts connected Saturday astatine York's Barbican.

The Whirlwind - who turned pro successful 1980 - faces Ross Muir successful his 2nd qualifying lucifer connected Monday.

Ronnie O'Sullivan bushed Ding Junhui successful past year's last to unafraid his eighth crown and volition beryllium hopeful of adding to his grounds tally connected December 1.

List of all-time Snooker World Champions

BELOW is simply a database of snooker World Champions by year.

The grounds is for the modern era, wide considered arsenic dating from the 1968-69 play hen the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) took power of the sport.

The archetypal World Championships ran from 1927 - with a interruption from 1941-45 due to the fact that of World War II and 1958-63 due to the fact that of a quality successful the sport.

Joe Davis (15), Fred Davis and John Pulman (both 8) were the astir palmy players during that period.

Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan stock the grounds for the astir titles successful the modern era, with 7 each.

1969 - John Spencer
1970 - Ray Reardon
1971 - John Spencer
1972 - Alex Higgins
1973 - Ray Reardon (2)
1974 - Ray Reardon (3)
1975 - Ray Reardon (4)
1976 - Ray Reardon (5)
1977 - John Spencer (2)
1978 - Ray Reardon (6)
1979 - Terry Griffiths
1980 - Cliff Thorburn
1981 - Steve Davis
1982 - Alex Higgins (2)
1983 - Steve Davis (2)
1984 - Steve Davis (3)
1985 - Dennis Taylor
1986 - Joe Johnson
1987 - Steve Davis (4)
1988 - Steve Davis (5)
1989 - Steve Davis (6)
1990 - Stephen Hendry
1991 - John Parrott
1992 - Stephen Hendry (2)
1993 - Stephen Hendry (3)
1994 - Stephen Hendry (4)
1995 - Stephen Hendry (5)
1996 - Stephen Hendry (6)
1997 - Ken Doherty
1998 - John Higgins
1999 - Stephen Hendry (7)
2000 - Mark Williams
2001 - Ronnie O'Sullivan
2002 - Peter Ebdon
2003 - Mark Williams (2)
2004 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)
2005 - Shaun Murphy
2006 - Graeme Dott
2007 - John Higgins (2)
2008 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (3)
2009 - John Higgins (3)
2010 - Neil Robertson
2011 - John Higgins (4)
2012 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (4)
2013 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (5)
2014 - Mark Selby
2015 - Stuart Bingham
2016 - Mark Selby (2)
2017 - Mark Selby (3)
2018 - Mark Williams (3)
2019 - Judd Trump
2020 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (6)
2021 - Mark Selby (4)
2022 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (7)
2023 - Luca Brecel
2024 - Kyren Wilson

Most World Titles (modern era)

7 - Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O'Sullivan
6 - Ray Reardon, Steve Davis
4 - John Higgins, Mark Selby
3 - John Spencer, Mark Williams
2 - Alex Higgins

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