The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports (billiards-type games), including carom billiards, pool games of several varieties, and snooker.[6][5]
The confederation was formed in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, on January 25, 1992.[3][5][7] Its headquarters were previously located in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium. Jean-Claude Dupont, of Belgium, served as WCBS' president from 2010 to 2015, followed by England's Jason Elliott Ferguson for 2015–2017.[3][7][8] Australia's Ian Anderson became the confederation's ninth president in 2017.[3][4][5]
The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) has 135 member national federations, as well as continental bodies for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.[5][7] WCBS, in turn, is affiliated with many international sports organizations, such as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), International World Games Association (IWGA) and Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF). Its statutes, practices and activities all conform to the Olympic Charter.[9]
^"Sports Governed by International Federations Recognised by the International Olympic Committee: Billiard Sports". Olympic.org. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
^"The World Games: Billiards Sports". TheWorldGames.org. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
^ abcd"World Confederation of Billiards Sports: History". WCBS.sport. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
^ ab"World Confederation of Billiards Sports: Board contacts". WCBS.sport. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
^ abcde"Association of IOC Recognised International Sport Federations (ARISF): WCBS World Confederation of Billiards Sports". ARISF.sport. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
^WCBS official website, accessed May 12, 2007. It is sometimes called the World Confederation ofBilliardsSports; the logo on the site uses the singular form of the name, while copies of the organisation's founding documents on the site use the plural version
^ abcOrganization information at IOC homepage
^Members of the Board of Directors of WCBS
^Englishblackball.com
and 23 Related for: World Confederation of Billiards Sports information
International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) is an organisation that governs non-professional snooker and English billiards around the world. As of January...
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards. It is headquartered...
WorldBilliards (Limited) was founded in November 2011 as a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA). It includes former...
English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom...
The billiardsworld rankings are the official system of ranking English billiards players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments...
cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English. There...
The IBSF WorldBilliards Championship (previously known as the World Amateur Billiards Championship) is the premier, international, non-professional tournament...
carom billiards, in the WorldConfederationofBilliardsSports (WCBS), the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports (billiards-type...
table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool,...
1986, and then from 2002. The event is hosted by the Asian ConfederationofBilliardsSports (ACBS). "Geet Sethi". TNQ Sponsorship Private Limited. Retrieved...
games of English billiards and snooker and organised professional and amateur championships in both sports. It was formed in 1919 by the union of the Billiards...
(ICC) Cue sports: WorldConfederationofBilliardsSports: Carom billiards: Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB) Pocket billiards (pool): World Pool-Billiard...
including carom billiards, pocket billiards/pool, and snooker Formed by the merger of the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations, founded...
(PSIP 2/RF 36), the flagship station of the CBS television network Other WorldConfederationofBilliardsSports This disambiguation page lists articles...
of international sports federations, each of which serves as a non-governmental governing body for a given sport and administers its sport at a world...
Artistic BilliardsWorld Championship is a carom billiards tournament in the discipline of artistic billiards, organized by the Confédération International...
governing body of the sport is the Confédération International de Billard Artistique. A version of the game, played on a pocket billiards table known as...
following is a list ofsports/games, divided by category. According to the WorldSports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting...
Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) was the umbrella organisation for all (Olympic and non-Olympic) international sports federations...
Global Information