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Lead of Sheffield City Council Tom Hunt on snooker in the city
The Star, Sheffield
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20/05/2025
In his latest column for The Star, Leader of Sheffield City Council Tom Hunt discusses the benefits of hosting the snooker in the Steel City.
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Sheffield loves snooker and over the last month we've seen a fantastic celebration of this much
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loved sport right here in our city, the undisputed home of snooker. 17 days of incredible matches in
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the crucible ended with Zhao Jintong becoming the first Chinese world champion. For centuries,
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Made in Sheffield has been associated with skill, with talent and the highest quality.
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Zhao Jintong is a new world champion made in Sheffield, making our city his home and training
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at Victoria's Snooker Academy in the city centre. There are 300,000 snooker clubs in China but Zhao
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and many other Chinese players are based right here in Sheffield because they know that this
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is the home of snooker. In Sheffield we've put on a show right here in Tudor Square and across the
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city centre and across the globe, hundreds of millions of fans have been watching the world
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championships right from Sheffield. In fact, this year's championship was streamed a record-breaking
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29 million times across the BBC, iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app. A 25% increase
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from last year. This city loves snooker and over the last month we've seen how the snooker community
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loves Sheffield. Sheffield is a global and growing city and snooker is a global and growing sport.
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We continue to have positive, constructive talks with our partners at the World Snooker Tour and
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we're already making plans for 2026 to make the championship bigger and better. We can't wait to
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roll out the green carpet again for thousands of fans, for the global media and superstars like
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Ronny O'Sullivan, Judd Trump and our returning world champion, Zhao Jingtong.
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