Sue Foster

Sue Foster is an English former snooker player. She won the Women's World Snooker Championship in 1983.[1]

Sue Foster
BornEngland
Sport country England
Best ranking finish1983 Women's World Snooker Champion

Career

Foster, from Tamworth,[2] was runner-up in the Pontins women's championships three times, in 1977, 1978 and 1982; and was national women's champion in 1980, 1982 and 1983.[3]

The 1983 Women's World Snooker Championship was sponsored by Pontins and held at their Brean Sands Holiday Park, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.[4][2] Foster won the tournament, and the £2,000 prize, by defeating Maureen Baynton, from Ewell, 8–5 in the final. The Observer noted that this was £28,000 less than the £30,000 that Steve Davis received for winning the men's World Snooker Championship that season.[2]

Foster had reached the semi-final in 1981, where she lost 0–3 to Vera Selby. In 1980 she lost 0–3 to Natalie Stelmach in the quarter-final.[5] She retired from competitive snooker in 1984.[3]

Achievements

Women's Snooker – Individual
OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponentScoreRef.
Runner-up 11977Pontins Women's ChampionshipsAgnes Davies1–3[3]
Runner-up 21978Pontins Women's ChampionshipsAnn Johnson1–3[3]
Winner 31980UK Women's Snooker Championships[3]
Winner 41982UK Women's Snooker Championships[3]
Runner-up 51982Pontins Women's ChampionshipsAgnes Davies0–3[3]
Winner 61983UK Women's Snooker Championships[3]
Winner 71983Women's World Snooker ChampionshipsMaureen Baynton8–5[2][4]

References
  1. World Champions Archived 18 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  2. "Harvey out of team". The Observer. 29 May 1983. p. 42 – via NewsBank. Retrieved 22 July 2019. Sue in pocket: SUE FOSTER picked up a cheque for £2,000 after clinching the women's world snooker championship, just £28,000 short of the figure Steve Davis received for taking this year's men's title. Sue, from Tamworth, beat Maureen Baynton, a 46-year-old Surrey housewife, 8-5 in the final at Brean Sands, Somerset.
  3. Morrison, Ian (1987). The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Snooker. Twickenham: Hamlyn Publishing Group. p. 43. ISBN 0600556042.
  4. "Results". The Guardian. 28 May 1983. p. 14 – via NewsBank Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  5. Everton, Clive (1985). Guinness Snooker: The Records. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 155–156. ISBN 0851124488.
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