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Adding local short description: "Indian billiards and snooker player and coach", overriding Wikidata description "Billiards and snooker player and coach" (Shortdesc helper)

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'''Subhash Agarwal''' is an [[India]]n professional player and coach of [[English billiards]] and [[snooker]]. A National Snooker Champion of India,<ref name="Shyam 2003">{{Cite news
|title=India's First-ever World Champion is Awaiting Some Kindness
|first=Kumar
|last=Shyam
|work=[[The Indian Express]]
|location=[[Mumbai, India]]
|publisher=[[Ramnath Goenka]]
|date=16 April 2003
}}</ref> he was the runner-up in the 1983 amateur [[IBSF World Billiards Championship]], losing to [[Michael Ferreira]] 2744–3933.<ref name="IBSF 1">{{Cite web
|url = http://www.ibsf.info/past-champions.shtml |title= Past Champions |work= IBSF.info |author =  |location= [[Reims, France]]
|publisher = [[International Billiards & Snooker Federation]] |accessdate = December 4, 2009 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130120002252/http://www.ibsf.info/past-champions.shtml |archivedate = January 20, 2013}}</ref> In 1995 he defeated [[Peter Gilchrist (billiards player)|Peter Gilchrist]] in the final of the UK Championship, making him the first Indian national to win a ranking event held in the UK.<ref name="HBIL">{{cite book|last=Everton |first=Clive |date=2012 |title=A History of Billiards|publisher=englishbilliards.org |location=Malmesbury |isbn=978-0-9564054-5-6}}</ref>{{rp|page=184}} He received the prestigious [[Arjuna Award]] in 1983,<ref name="SPortal 1">{{Cite web
|url= http://sportal.nic.in/arjun1.asp?maincatid=7&moduleid=&comid=56
|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071110091543/http://sportal.nic.in/arjun1.asp?maincatid=7&moduleid=&comid=56
|archivedate=10 November 2007
|title=Arjun Award Winners for 'Billiards and Snooker'
|author=
|work=SPortal
|location=[[New Delhi, India]]
|publisher=Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
|accessdate=4 December 2009
}}</ref> Agarwal is the coach of the Indian national billiards team, working with [[Pankaj Arjan Advani|Pankaj Advani]] among others.<ref name="Hindu 2009">{{Cite web
|url= http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/article16374.ece |title=Billiards Fraternity Hail Advani |author= |date=7 September 2009
|work=The Hindu |location=[[Chennai, India]] |publisher=Kasturi and Sons |accessdate=4 December 2009}}</ref> He is the brother of the late World Amateur snooker champion [[Om Agarwal]], and a protégé of [[Anglo-Indian]] champion [[Wilson Jones (billiards player)|Wilson Jones]].<ref name="Shyam 2003" /> Agarwal's family name is sometimes misspelled "Agrawal".<ref name="IBSF 1" />

== References ==
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[[Category:Indian snooker players]]
[[Category:Indian players of English billiards]]
[[Category:Coaches, managers and promoters in English billiards]]
[[Category:Snooker coaches, managers and promoters]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Arjuna Award]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Dronacharya Award]]
[[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]

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>Red Director: Adding local short description: "Indian billiards and snooker player and coach", overriding Wikidata description "Billiards and snooker player and coach" (Shortdesc helper)