{"id":945687,"date":"2026-05-08T08:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945687\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:40:25","slug":"first-ever-para-snooker-world-championships-held-in-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945687\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever Para Snooker World Championships held in Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canon Medical Arena hosted the inaugural 10 Cue Para Snooker Championships last week.<\/p>\n<p>Players travelled from around the world to take part including Irving Gamez from Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the first para snooker championships, Stephen Harrison, founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenharrisonacademy.com\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.stephenharrisonacademy.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Stephen Harrison Academy<\/a>, put a new twist on the traditional game of snooker by reducing the number of balls and the size of the table to ensure entertaining, fast-natured matches.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2007, Mr Harrison has attempted to make snooker accessible to all in Sheffield through his social enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>He has utilised the game to provide entertainment, mentoring and employability support for a wide variety of disadvantaged groups.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Harrison aims to make the 10 Cue Snooker World Championships an annual event in Sheffield, running alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/sheffield-crucible-theatre-to-receive-45m-investment\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/sheffield-crucible-theatre-to-receive-45m-investment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Crucible<\/a> each year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t Post Views: 155&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canon Medical Arena hosted the inaugural 10 Cue Para Snooker Championships last week. Players travelled from around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,5554,347,393,4884,1620,10380,16,15,20873],"class_list":["post-945687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-britain","tag-community","tag-disability","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sheffield","tag-snooker","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-championship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116538063662156417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}