Chitra Magimairaj Biography 
Chitra Magimairaj is a professional player of snooker, English billiards, and pool. She has been a cricket and hockey player before. But she was inspired by the world champion Geet Sethi to give billiards a try, and she succeeded as well. India’s leading woman player in billiards, she put India’s name to world frame of ‘woman’ billiards in 2006 by winning the World Ladies' Billiards Champion, having defeated Emma Bonney in the title clash at Cambridge in April 2006 at the age of 32.
She retained the same title the following year too. In 2014 she won World Women's Senior Snooker Championship. Thus a two-time World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association World Champion, a two-time national pool champion and World Women's Senior Snooker Champion, she is one of the leading ladies of this game in the past few years. She is associated with Karnataka State Billiards Association. She is the first Indian woman cueist to qualify to participate in two Asian Games and three Asian Indoor Games and the first woman cueist to win a medal in both these events. She won Australia Open Women Snooker Championship 2008.
She is also a winner of numerous other national level and international competitions and won many honors as well. She won the prestigious Ekalavya award, Mysore Dasara Award and Kempegowda Award in 2007. She was honoured with Zee Excellence Award in 2008 and Sports Writers Association Award (SWAA) for Best Sportsperson the same year. She won National title at a long wait of 11 years beating Tamil Nadu's Neena Praveen 3-1 in the women's snooker final.
She was born and brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka. She was born in the year 1973. She has been a national-class amateur cricket and field hockey player, before she chose Billiards as her career. As a cricketer she played for Falcon Sports Club, Karnataka and was a member of the winning team of South Zone Cricket Championship in the year 1989. She also played field hockey for Sports Hostel Mysore for seven years, and represented Karnataka till National level competitions.
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Updated: March 06, 2016
