Subhash Agarwal

{{short description|Indian billiards and snooker player and coach}}

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Subhash Agarwal (born 28 July 1948) is an Indian professional player and coach of English billiards and snooker. A National Snooker Champion of India,{{Cite news

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|location=Mumbai, India

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}} he was the runner-up in the 1983 amateur IBSF World Billiards Championship, losing to Michael Ferreira 2744–3933.{{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}} 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.{{cite book|last=Everton |first=Clive |date=2012 |title=A History of Billiards|publisher=englishbilliards.org |location=Malmesbury |isbn=978-0-9564054-5-6}}{{rp|page=184}} He received the prestigious Arjuna Award in 1983,{{Cite web

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|title=Arjun Award Winners for 'Billiards and Snooker'

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|location=New Delhi, India

|publisher=Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

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}} Agarwal is the coach of the Indian national billiards team, working with Pankaj Advani among others.{{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}} He is the brother of the late World Amateur snooker champion Om Agarwal, and a protégé of Anglo-Indian champion Wilson Jones. Agarwal's family name is sometimes misspelled "Agrawal".