Mykhailo Larkov
Ukrainian snooker player
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Mykhailo Mikhailovich Larkov (Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Ларков; (born 5 January 2009) is a Ukrainian snooker and billiards player. In January 2026 he won the WSF World Junior Championship, and with it earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour starting with the 2026–27 snooker season.
Shepetivka
Ukraine| Born | 5 January 2009[1] Shepetivka |
|---|---|
| Sport country | Ukraine |
Biography
He was born in Shepetivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. In 2021, at the age of 12 years-old, Larkov became the youngest winner, competing in billiards, of the Ukrainian Pyramid Championship.[2] In 2022, competing in snooker, Larkov won the bronze medal at the World Open Under-16 Snooker Championships.[3] Larkov moved to Germany with his family after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and went to school in Dortmund. He continued to play snooker and won the 2023-24 German Snooker Tour, as a 15 year-old.[4]
Larkov was a semi-finalist at the 2024 DMT Best of Europe Snooker Championship, losing to Belgian professional Ben Mertens.[5] That year, Larkov defeated Kyrylo Baidala in the final of the 2024 Ukrainian National Snooker Championship in Lviv.[6] As a 16 year-old, Larkov hit the top break in the tournament (140) and reached the semi-finals at the 2025–26 Q Tour Event 1, losing to eventual winner Hammad Miah in Stockholm, Sweden.[7]
In January 2026, he won the WSF Junior Snooker Championship, in Bulgaria, winning 4-0 against Thailand’s Prin Ratmukda in the semi-final before beating Wang Xinbo of China 5-2 in the final, the win earned him a two-year World Snooker Tour (WST) tour card, starting from the 2026-27 snooker season.[8][9] The following week, he advanced to the knockout stages of the WSF Championship in Sofia.[10] He lost 10-5 to Ross Muir in the first round of qualifying for the 2026 World Snooker Championship.[11]
Career finals
Amateur finals: 17 (10 titles)
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1. | 2022 | German Snooker Tour - Event 20 (2022–2023) |  Enes Bakirci |
0–2 |
| Winner | 1. | 2022 | German Snooker Tour - Event 24 (2022–2023) |  Christian Richter |
3–2 |
| Winner | 2. | 2022 | German Snooker Tour - Event 54 (2022–2023) | Christian Richter |
2–0 |
| Winner | 3. | 2023 | German Snooker Tour - Event 85 (2022–2023) | Heorhii Petrunko |
2–1 |
| Winner | 4. | 2023 | German Snooker Tour - Event 34 (2023–2024) | Matvei Lagodzinschii |
1–0 |
| Winner | 5. | 2023 | German Snooker Tour - Event 37 (2023–2024) | Matvei Lagodzinschii |
2–0 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2023 | German Snooker Tour - Event 39 (2023–2024) | Richard Wienold |
1–2 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 2023 | German Snooker Tour - Event 65 (2023–2024) |  Omar Alkojah |
1–2 |
| Runner-up | 4. | 2023 | German Snooker Tour - Event 72 (2023–2024) | Heorhii Petrunko |
1–3 |
| Runner-up | 5. | 2024 | German Grand Prix - Event 3 (2023–2024) | Alexander Widau |
0–3 |
| Runner-up | 6. | 2024 | German Grand Prix - Event 4 (2023–2024) | Alexander Widau |
0–3 |
| Runner-up | 7. | 2024 | German Snooker Tour - Event 122 (2023–2024) | Lukas Kleckers |
0–2 |
| Winner | 6. | 2024 | German Snooker Tour - Final (2023–2024) | Lukas Kleckers |
1–0 |
| Winner | 7. | 2024 | German Snooker Tour - Event 40 (2024–2025) | Ismail Türker |
2–0 |
| Winner | 8. | 2024 | Ukrainian Amateur Championship | Kyryl Baidala |
5–1 |
| Winner | 9. | 2025 | German Grand Prix - Event 5 (2024–2025) | Fabian Haken |
3–0 |
| Winner | 10. | 2026 | WSF Junior Championship |  Wang Xinbo |
5–2 |
Team finals: 1 (1 title)
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Team | Opponent | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 2025 | EBSA European Team Snooker Championship | Ukraine with Anton Kazakov |
 Malta 3Philip Ciantar Isaac Borg |
3–1 | [12] |