The 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship was an amateur snooker tournament which took place from 9 November to 21 November 2015 in Hurghada, Egypt.

It will be the 41st edition of the IBSF World Snooker Championship and also doubles as a qualification event for the World Snooker Tour.

The men's tournament was won by Pankaj Advani of India who won his second IBSF World Snooker Championship, defeating 2013 runner-up Zhao Xintong 8–6 in the final.

Wendy Jans won the women's tournament by defeating Anastasia Nechaeva 5–1 in the final. This victory was Jans fourth consecutive tournament win and her fifth overall.

Tournament The tournament was an event run by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF). The event was originally due to take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, however due to the Metrojet Flight 9268 crash the tournament was relocated to Hurghada. Because of this many competitors withdrew from the competition amid safety fears and this ended up leaving some of the groups featuring as little as four players who would subsequently all qualify for the knockout stage of the tournament regardless of their results in the group stage. The men's event also doubled as a qualification event for the World Snooker Tour.

Singles players 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship – Men's Champion Runner-Up Pankaj Advani Zhao Xintong Semifinals out Ben Jones Lukas Kleckers Quarterfinals out Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn Brian Cini Alex Borg Greg Casey 4th round out Muhammad Asif Mohsen Bukshaisha Tomasz Skalski Lin Tang Ho Soheil Vahedi Gary Thomson Mohamed Shehab Karam Fatima 3rd round out Jamie Clarke Michael Collumb Lee Chun Wai Alijalil Ali Yuan Sijun Bashar Abdulmajeed Rodney Goggins Ahmed Janahi Michael Rhodes Yaser Elsherbiny Dharminder Lilly Amir Sarkhosh Faisal Khan Issara Kachaiwong Keen Hoo Moh Mohd Reza Hassan 2nd round out Khaled Farag Saqib Nasir Khalid Kamali Alex Taubman Antti Mannila Richard Halliday Rhydian Richards Muhammad Sajjad John Kennish Varun Madan Lim Chun Kiat Raymon Fabrie Adrian Ridley Ahmed Saif Ali Alobaidli Mohamed Khairy Ryan Causton Nadir Khan Sultani Aaron Busuttil Basem Eltahhan Ahmed Aseeri Antti Tolvanen Mohammad Rais Senzahi Peter Bullen Karim Elabd Kok Leong Lim Omar Alajlani Tetsuya Kuwata Ryan Thomerson Habib Subah Shannon Dixon Abdul Sattar 1st round out Mostafa Dorgham Jérôme Liedtke Mohamed Hemdan Hesham Shawky Abdul Mutalieb Allie Keishin Kamihashi Ali Hussein James Mifsud Saeed Abooyesani Mohamed Ibrahim Khaled Alastal Mohamed Youssef Tamer Waheed Abdelrahman Abdelhamid Ang Boon Chin Dominik Scherübl David Cassidy Tymour Hussien Ahmed Aly Elsayed Shahram Changezi Mostafa Gebely Ahmed Samir Alaa Elsaed Chau Hon Man

2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship – Women's Champion Runner-Up Wendy Jans Anastasia Nechaeva Semifinals out Amee Kamani Waratthanun Sukritthanes Quarterfinals out Chitra Magimairaj Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan Ng On Yee Vidya Pillai 4th round out Amy Claire King Tatjana Vasiljeva Jessica Woods Theresa Whitten Arantxa Sanchis Daria Sirotina Diana Stateczny Jennifer Zehentner 3rd round out Kathy Howden Sunita Khandelwal Nahla Sunni Varsha Sanjeev Anna Lynch Angélique Vialard Joy Lyn Willenberg Nicola Illse Rossouw

Seedings Men's event Seed Player Frames Won Frames Lost Frames Difference Frame Average Status 1 Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn 15 1 15 3.75 Quarterfinals lost to Ben Jones 2 Abdul Sattar 12 1 11 3.67 Second round lost to Lukas Kleckers 3 Soheil Vahedi 20 2 18 3.60 Fourth round lost to Alex Borg 4 Zhao Xintong 16 2 14 3.50 Runner-up, lost to Pankaj Advani 5 Yuan Sijun 20 3 17 3.40 Third round loss to Brian Cini 6 Pankaj Advani 20 4 16 3.20 Champion, won against Zhao Xintong 7 Mohamed Shehab 20 4 16 3.20 Fourth round lost to Greg Casey 8 Muhammad Sajjad 20 4 16 3.20 Fourth round lost to Alijalil Ali 9 Lee Chun Wai 20 4 16 3.20 Quarterfinals lost to Mohsen Bukshaisha 10 Tetsuya Kuwata 20 5 15 3.00 Second round lost to Greg Casey 11 Ahmed Aseeri 20 6 14 2.80 Second round lost to Gary Thomson 12 Raymon Fabrie 20 6 14 2.80 Second round lost to Bashar Abdulmajeed 13 Rodney Goggins 20 7 13 2.60 Third round lost to Lin Tang Ho 14 Basem Eltahhan 20 7 13 2.60 Second round lost to Yaser Elsherbiny 15 Keen Hoo Moh 16 6 10 2.50 Third round lost to Karam Fatima 16 Muhammad Asif 20 8 12 2.40 Fourth round lost to Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn 17 Michael Collumb 16 7 9 2.25 Third round lost to Muhammad Asif 18 Karam Fatima 20 9 11 2.20 Fourth round lost to Lukas Kleckers 19 Alex Borg 18 11 7 2.20 Quarterfinals lost to Pankaj Advani 20 Ahmed Saif 18 8 10 2.00 Second round lost to Lin Tang Ho 21 Tomasz Skalski 18 11 7 1.40 Fourth round lost to Brian Cini 22 Dharminder Lilly 18 11 7 1.40 Third round lost to Gary Thomson 23 Issara Kachaiwong 18 5 13 2.60 Third round lost to Greg Casey 24 Mohsen Bukshaisha 17 7 10 2.00 Fourth round lost to Ben Jones 25 Rhydian Richards 14 6 8 2.00 Second round lost to Ben Jones 26 Faisal Khan 19 9 10 2.00 Third round lost to Mohamed Shehab 27 Amir Sarkhosh 19 9 10 2.00 Third round lost to Pankaj Advani 28 Brian Cini 18 8 10 2.00 Quarterfinals lost to Zhao Xintong 29 Ali Alobaidli 19 10 9 1.80 Second round lost to Ahmed Janahi 30 Nadir Khan Sultani 19 10 9 1.80 Second round lost to Michael Rhodes 31 Shannon Dixon 19 11 8 1.60 Second round lost to Mohd Reza Hassan 32 Saqib Nasir 19 12 7 1.40 Second round lost to Jamie Clarke 33 Jamie Clarke 17 11 6 1.20 Third round lost to Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn

Women's event Seed Player Frames Won Frames Lost Frames Difference Frame Average Status 1 Amee Kamani 12 0 12 3.00 Semifinals lost to Anastasia Nechaeva 2 Vidya Pillai 12 1 11 2.75 Quarterfinals lost to Wendy Jans 3 Waratthanun Sukritthanes 12 1 11 2.75 Semifinals lost to Wendy Jans 4 Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan 12 2 10 2.50 Quarterfinals lost to Anastasia Nechaeva 5 Anastasia Nechaeva 15 4 11 2.20 Runner-up, lost to Wendy Jans 6 Ng On Yee 14 5 9 1.80 Quarterfinals lost to Waratthanun Sukritthanes 7 Diana Stateczny 13 5 8 1.60 Second round lost to Wendy Jans 8 Tatjana Vasiljeva 13 6 7 1.40 Second round lost to Chitra Magimairaj 9 Chitra Magimairaj 10 5 5 1.25 Quarterfinals lost to Amee Kamani 10 Wendy Jans 9 3 6 1.50 Champion, won against Anastasia Nechaeva 11 Daria Sirotina 9 4 5 1.25 Second round lost to Wendy Jans 12 Jessica Woods 9 6 3 0.75 Second round lost to Anastasia Nechaeva 13 Varsha Sanjeev 12 7 5 1.00 First round lost to Theresa Whitten 14 Arantxa Sanchis 12 8 4 0.80 Second round lost to Waratthanun Sukritthanes 15 Nicola Illse Rossouw 9 6 3 0.75 First round lost to Jennifer Zehentner 16 Amy-Claire King 8 9 –1 –0.25 Second round lost to Amee Kamani

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