Chitra Magimairaj

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Chitra Magimairaj
Born (1973-04-07) 7 April 1973 (age 50)
India
Sport country India
NicknameTemplate:Infobox snooker player/nicknames
Highest rankingWorld ranking 10
[[[:Template:Infobox snooker player/rankings]] Current ranking] Template:Infobox snooker player/rankings (as of Template:Infobox snooker player/rankings)
Century breaksTemplate:Infobox snooker player/century breaks
Medal record
Women's snooker
Representing  India
World Women's Senior Snooker Championship
Gold medal – first place Individual competition 2014
Gold medal – first place Individual competition 2016

Chitra Magimairaj (born 7 April 1973,[1] Bangalore), is an Indian professional player of snooker, English billiards, and pool. She is a two-time World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association World Champion (2006, 2007), a two-time national pool champion, and more recently the World Women's Senior Snooker Championship (2014). She has also been a national-class amateur cricket and field hockey player.

Her highest Template:Cuegloss are 91 at snooker[2] and 49 at English billiards.

Early life[edit]

Born in Bangalore, India, Magimairaj was educated at St. Anne's Girls High School, and graduated from Teresian College, Mysore. She started playing cricket and field hockey at a young age.

Career[edit]

On 22 April 2014, Magimairaj won the World Women's Senior Snooker Championship, after defeating Alena Asmolava of Belarus, in Leeds, UK.[3]

Magimairaj was the first Indian woman cueist to win a medal in Asian Games and Asian Indoor Games, the First Indian woman to have won two World Billiards Championships (women's division) titles (in 2006 and 2007) and the first Indian to win an Australian Open Women's Snooker Championship (2008).[citation needed]

Inn 2007 she received a Kempegowda Award and an Ekalavya Award.[citation needed]

Other sports[edit]

Magimairaj played cricket for Falcon Sports Club under Shanta Rangaswamy, and represented Karnataka, which won the South Zone Cricket Championship in the year 1989.

She played field hockey for Sports Hostel Mysore for seven years, and represented Karnataka in sub-junior, junior, and senior nationals, the All-India Inter-University Invitation Cup, and the South Zone Championship.

Titles and achievements[edit]

English billiards

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent Score Ref.
Winner 1 2006 World Ladies Billiards Championship Emma Bonney 193–164 [4]
Winner 2 2007 World Ladies Billiards Championship Emma Bonney 187–148 [5]
Runner-up 3 2009 World Ladies Billiards Championship Emma Bonney 118–272 [6]
Runner-up 4 2010 World Ladies Billiards Championship Emma Bonney 220–269 [7]
Runner-up 5 2013 Indian National Billiards Championship

Snooker

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent Score Ref.
Winner 1 2008 Australian Open Snooker Championship
Runner-up 2 2009 Australian Open Snooker Championship
Winner 3 2011 Indian National Six-red Snooker Championship
Winner 4 2012 Indian National Snooker Championship
Runner-up 5 2013 Indian National Snooker Championship

Pool

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent Score Ref.
Winner 1 2006 Indian National Eight-ball Pool Championship
Winner 2 2007 Indian National Nine-ball Pool Championship

References[edit]

  1. "Athlete Profile: MAGIMAIRAJAN Chitra". ashgabat2017.com. Ashgabat 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
  2. "Chitra Magimairaj". Cue Sports India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  3. "Chitra wins world title". The Statesman. India. 23 April 2014. Archived from the original on 20 May 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  4. "India's first world champion". Snooker Scene. No. May 2006. Everton's News Agency. p. 5.
  5. "Reanne Evans completes world title hat-trick". Snooker Scene. No. May 2007. Everton's News Agency. p. 25.
  6. "Women's billiards". Snooker Scene. No. May 2009. Everton's News Agency. p. 20.
  7. "In pictures: World Ladies Billiards Championship 2010". BBC. 8 April 2010. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2019.

External links[edit]

Template:Women's world champions of English billiards