Christopher Vejlager claims 2024 Nordic Snooker Championship title

This prestigious annual tournament features participation from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with those countries each taking it in turns to host the decorated regional snooker festival.

It was Denmark's year to stage the competition - organised in conjunction by Den Danske Billard Union - and the Aarhus Snooker and Pool venue answered the call to host as the Copenhagen Pool & Snooker House was unable to due to relocation plans. The Aarhus facility set up a wonderful playing arena, removing pool tables and replacing them with snooker ones, and showcased the event brilliantly with livestreaming throughout.

Each nation had eight representatives, meaning there were 40 entrants split into eight round robin groups of five with a player from each nation. All group matches were the best of five frames, with the top two cueists from each pool qualifying for the round of 16 knockout phase.

Vejlager - who won his first Danish National Snooker Championship title in June - finished top of his group with four wins from four and having relinquished only three frames in the process.

In the knockouts, Odense-based Vejlager defeated three Norwegian players in consecutive rounds to reach the final; Nassim Sekat 4-2 in the last 16, Reidar Rundsveen 4-2 in the quarter-finals, and Erik Dullerud 4-1 in the last four.

Two-time Icelandic National Snooker Championship runner-up Kristjánsson also made the title match with a 100% winning record. In the semi-finals, Kristjánsson denied two-time Nordic Snooker Championship winner Daniel Kandi (Denmark), 4-2, despite a break of 82 from his opponent during the tie. Kandi played a big part in helping set up this year's edition of the tournament.

In the best of nine frames final, Vejlager went into the mid-session interval 4-0 up. On resumption, Kristjánsson avoided the whitewash by securing frame five, but Vejlager didn't have to wait too much longer for his maiden Nordic title triumph as he wrapped up victory on the final black ball in frame six.