Arantxa Sanchis

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rdf:langString Arantxa Sanchis is a female professional English billiards and snooker player from India. She won a gold medal in the Women's Team event at the inaugural IBSF World 6-Red Snooker and Team Snooker Championship in Carlow, Ireland, on 6 October 2013. It was a historic first gold medal for Indian women's snooker at a World Championship. On 27 September 2015, she won the inaugural IBSF World Billiards Championship in Adelaide, Australia. This feat made her the only woman in the world to hold IBSF World titles in both billiards and snooker. In addition, she won the bronze medal at the IBSF World Team Snooker Championship at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in July 2016. This was followed up by a bronze medal at the ACBS Asian 6 Red Snooker Championship at Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, in September 2016. Sanchis was the best-performing Indian female cueist for the year 2019. She won a bronze medal at the ACBS Asian Snooker Championship at Chandigarh, India, in May 2019. This was followed up with another bronze medal at the IBSF World Women's Snooker Championship at Antalya, Turkey, in November 2019. In recognition of her achievements in the sport, she was presented with the Phoenix Leading Lady Award 2020 for Personal Excellence in Sports organised by Phoenix Market City. Prior to this she has won ten National and two Maharashtra State Championships. She made history and created a record by winning four titles at a single Nationals (Indore 2008). This made her the first-ever Indian cueist (male or female) to accomplish this feat. She won the National Senior Women's Billiards Championship in 2012 and 2015, and the National Six Red Snooker Championship in 2012. At 17 years of age, she represented India at the 2007 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, held at Goa and was a semi-finalist. On 3 December 2015, Sanchis was conferred with the Shiv Chhatrapati Award – Maharashtra's highest sporting honor for her achievements in the sports of billiards and snooker.

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