{"id":873243,"date":"2026-08-27T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873243\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:02:16","slug":"gilchrist-is-the-winner-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873243\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilchrist is the Winner in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gilchrist defeated Robert Hall 801-252 to win the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/world-billiards.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Billiards<\/a> Vimy Ridge Classic in Winnipeg, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The level three ranking event was the first part of a double-header in Winnipeg, Canada which will conclude with the PABSA Pan Am Cup on 27-30 August.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 50 cueists competed in the three-day event with former world champion Gilchrist, representing Singapore, embarking on the event as the highest seed.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-110065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/53317018533_04b21ee6c3_c-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"998\" height=\"665\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Gilchrist began with a clean sweep of group stage victories over Canadian opponents before defeating Steve Jones (515-137) and Phil Johnson (730-273) to reach the last four.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Coumbe pushed Gilchrist close in their semi-final contest, scoring the highest break of the match with a 195, but ultimately it was the man representing Singapore who ran out a 421-396 victor to set up a title match meeting with Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Hall had beaten former ranking event winner Dhruv Sitwala in the semi-finals but was unable to compete with Gilchrist in the final as he scored the tournament high break of 360 en route to the title victory.<\/p>\n<p>The World Billiards season continues with the 2026 PABSA Pan Am Cup in Winnipeg, Canada on 27-30 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Gilchrist defeated Robert Hall 801-252 to win the 2026 World Billiards Vimy Ridge Classic in Winnipeg, Canada.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[303119,49,48,303120,303121,22073,303122],"class_list":["post-873243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-billiards","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-peter-gilchrist","tag-vimy-ridge-classic","tag-winnipeg","tag-world-billiards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}