page_title: Stuart Bingham
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caption_attribution_description: Stuart Bingham beim Paul Hunter Classic 2016
context_page_description: Stuart Bingham is an English professional snooker player. He is a former world champion and the reigning Masters champion.
  As a 20-year-old amateur, Bingham won the 1996 IBSF World Snooker Championship. The early years of his professional career featured some notable victories, such as beating defending world champion Stephen Hendry 10–7 in the first round of the 2000 World Championship, but he enjoyed little sustained success and became known as a journeyman player. 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.
  At age 38, Bingham won the 2015 World Championship, beating Shaun Murphy 18–15 in the final, which British media said "completed an astonishing transition from journeyman to king of the Crucible". The oldest first-time world champion in snooker history, he joined Ken Doherty as the only players 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.
context_section_description: Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player. He is a former world champion and the reigning Masters champion.
  As a 20-year-old amateur, Bingham won the 1996 IBSF World Snooker Championship. The early years of his professional career featured some notable victories, such as beating defending world champion Stephen Hendry 10–7 in the first round of the 2000 World Championship, but he enjoyed little sustained success and became known as a journeyman player. 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.
  At age 38, Bingham won the 2015 World Championship, beating Shaun Murphy 18–15 in the final, which British media said "completed an astonishing transition from journeyman to king of the Crucible". The oldest first-time world champion in snooker history, he joined Ken Doherty as the only players 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. 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 prolific break-builder, Bingham has compiled more than 400 century breaks during his career, including six maximum breaks.
caption: Bingham at the 2016 Paul Hunter Classic
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