Maureen Baynton


Maureen Baynton is an English former snooker and billiards player. She held the record for winning most Women's Amateur Snooker Championships after winning eight times between 1954 and 1968, and also won seven Women's Amateur Billiards championships between 1955 and 1980. She was runner-up in the 1983 World [Women's Snooker Championship].

Biography

Baynton began to play snooker and billiards at Peckham Health Centre, teaching herself, from the age of 11. Three years after taking up the games, she was the girls champion at both snooker and billiards.
After a highly successful playing career in which she won a record eight Women's Amateur Snooker Championships between 1954 and 1968, and seven Women's Amateur Billiards championships between 1955 and 1980, she retired from competition for several years. When the World Women's Snooker Championship was staged in 1976, Baynton entered, reaching the semi-final, where she lost to Muriel Hazeldene. In the 1983 tournament she went one stage further, reaching the final, where she lost 5–8 to Sue Foster.
Throughout her career, she used the cue that she received, aged 10, for winning the Schoolgirls Championship in 1947. It is now on display at the Billiards and Snooker Heritage Collection in Liverpool.

Titles and achievements

Snooker
OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponentScoreRef.
Winner11954Women's Amateur Snooker Championship
Winner21955Women's Amateur Snooker Championship
Winner31956Women's Amateur Snooker Championship
Winner41961Women's Amateur Snooker ChampionThea March4–0
Winner51962Women's Amateur Snooker ChampionRita Holmes4–1
Winner61964Women's Amateur Snooker Championship
Winner71966Women's Amateur Snooker Championship
Winner81968Women's Amateur Snooker Championship
Runner-up919831983 Women's [World Snooker Championship|Women's World Snooker Championships]Sue Foster5–8

Billiards
OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponentScoreRef.
Runner-up11954World Women’s Billiards ChampionshipHelen Futo430–448
Winner21955World Women’s Billiards ChampionshipE Morland-Smith451–401
Winner31956World Women’s Billiards Championship
Winner41957World Women’s Billiards ChampionshipE Morland-Smith553–334
Winner51964World Women’s Billiards ChampionshipRae Craven649–336
Winner61966World Women’s Billiards ChampionshipVera Youle514–319
Winner71968World Women’s Billiards ChampionshipRae Craven434–265
Runner-up81978World Women’s Billiards ChampionshipVera Selby319–366
Winner91979World Women’s Billiards ChampionshipVera Selby