Stuart Bingham

Stuart Bingham

Bingham at the 2016 Paul Hunter Classic
Born	(1976-05-21) 21 May 1976 (age 48) Basildon, Essex, England
Sport country	England
Nickname	Ball-run[1]
Professional	1995–present
Highest ranking	2 (May 2015 – March 2017)
Current ranking	25 (as of 28 October 2024)
Maximum breaks	9
Century breaks	595 (as of 9 November 2024)
Tournament wins
Ranking	6
Minor-ranking	4
World Champion	2015

Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976)^[2] is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner.

Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his professional career. His form improved in his mid-thirties: at age 35, he won his first ranking title at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open, which helped him enter the top 16 in the rankings for the first time. Since then he has firmly established himself as one of the greatest snooker players of all time.

At 38, Bingham won the 2015 World Championship, defeating Shaun Murphy 18–15 in the final. The oldest first-time world champion in snooker history, he was the second player, after Ken Doherty, to have won world titles at both amateur and professional levels. His world title took him to a career-high number two in the world rankings, a spot he held until March 2017. In 2017, Bingham received a six-month ban from professional competition after breaching rules concerning betting on matches involving himself and other players. He won his second Triple Crown title at the 2020 Masters, defeating Ali Carter 10–8 in the final. Aged 43 years and 243 days, he superseded Ray Reardon as the oldest Masters' champion, a record he held until Ronnie O'Sullivan won the 2024 Masters aged 48 years and 40 days.

A prolific break-builder, Bingham has compiled over 550 century breaks during his career. He has scored nine career maximum breaks, the fourth most of any player, behind only Ronnie O'Sullivan (15), John Higgins (13), and Stephen Hendry (11).