Century Breaks
There were eighteen century breaks during the championship, a record which stood until 1986. The highest break of the event was 147 by Cliff Thorburn. With this record he earned a £5,000 bonus.
- 147 Cliff Thorburn
- 139, 105 Kirk Stevens
- 131, 103 Steve Davis
- 122, 116 Ray Reardon
- 118, 115, 104 Eddie Charlton
- 118, 106 Doug Mountjoy
- 111 Jimmy White
- 109, 102 Alex Higgins
- 109 Bill Werbeniuk
- 106 John Spencer
- 102 Tony Meo
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Famous quotes containing the words century and/or breaks:
“And haughtier-headed Burke that proved the State a tree,
That this unconquerable labyrinth of the birds, century after century,
Cast but dead leaves to mathematical equality....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unflecked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)