| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 30 October 1950 – 24 February 1951 |
| Final venue | Tower Circus |
| Final city | Blackpool |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | Billiards Association and Control Council |
| Highest break |  Walter Donaldson (SCO) (106) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Fred Davis (ENG) |
| Runner-up | Walter Donaldson (SCO) |
| Score | 58–39 |
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The 1951 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament. The final was held at the Tower Circus in Blackpool, England.[1]
For the fifth consecutive year, the final was contested by Fred Davis and Walter Donaldson. Davis won his third World title by defeating Donaldson 58–39 in the final.[1] Donaldson made the highest break of the tournament with 106 in frame 32 of his semi-final match against Horace Lindrum.[2][3]
After defeating the then 42-year-old Sidney Smith — runner-up in the 1938 and 1939 championships — in the quarter-finals, the 15-year younger John Pulman reached the semi-finals, where he played against the eventual winner Fred Davis, before he retired and gave Davis an early bye into the final.
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- ^ "2004 Embassy World Championship Information". Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 8 December 2004. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ "Donaldson leads in snooker semi-final". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 25 January 1951. Retrieved 19 March 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.