{{short description|Indian billiards and snooker player and coach}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} '''Subhash Agarwal''' (born 28 July 1948) is an Indian 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&ndash;3933.<ref name="IBSF 1">{{Cite web |url = http://www.ibsf.info/past-champions.shtml |title= Past Champions |work= IBSF.info |author = <!--Staff writers; no by-line.--> |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 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=<!--Staff writers; no by-line.--> |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 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=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |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.<ref name="Shyam 2003" /> Agarwal's family name is sometimes misspelled "Agrawal".<ref name="IBSF 1" />

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