Lesley McIlrath


Lesley McIlrath is an Australian former snooker player. She won the Women's World Open Championship in 1980.

1980 Women's World Open Championship

The tournament was sponsored by Guinness, and held at Hayling Island.
McIlrath's results in the tournament were:
Her opponent in the final, Agnes Davies, was aged 60 at the time, and went on to have a playing career spanning a total of 64 years.
The victory, in only the second Women's World Open Championship, made McIlrath the first non-UK player to win. Coincidentally, Cliff Thorburn became the first non-UK winner of the men's World Snooker Championship the same year. McIllrath remains one of only two non-UK World Women's Snooker Championship winners. Ng On-yee, who won her first title in 2015, is the other.

Other world championship achievements

Source: Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Snooker