Peter Gilchrist (billiards player)

Peter Edward Gilchrist is a Singaporean billiards player. He won the World Billiards Championship (English billiards) in 1994, 2001, 2013, 2019 and 2023.

Career

Gilchrist played in Teesside Boys Billiards League as a youth. he was the English Amateur Champion in 1988.
Gilchrist won the World Billiards Championship (English billiards) in 1994, 2001, 2013 2019, and 2023. He also won the International Billiards and Snooker Federation World Championship in 2015, 2016 and 2019.

In 2003, Gilchrist emigrated to Singapore to become the national billiards and snooker coach. Gilchrist began representing Singapore at the 2009 SEA Games, where he won Gold for English Billiards Singles, and Bronze for the doubles.
Gilchrist set the world record for highest break in billiards under modern rules, at the New Zealand Open Billiards Championships. On 14 February 2014, he scored his second 1000 break, at the World Billiards Irish Open. Gilchrist is the only player of the modern era who scored more than one 1000 points in tournament break.
Gilchrist won the 2019 Pacific International Billiards Championship, beating Sourav Kothari 1500–706 in the final. Gilchrist is a two-time recipient of the Singapore Sports Awards' Sportsman of the Year title.
In 2022, during the 2021 SEA Games, Gilchrist won the silver medal after losing 3–1 to Myanmar's Pauk Sa, ending a streak of six gold medals since the 2009 SEA Games in the English billiards men's singles event. He regained his title from Sa at the 2025 SEA Games.

Gilchrist became a Singaporean citizen in 2006. He renounced his British citizenship at the same time as Singapore does not permit multiple citizenships under Singaporean nationality law.