Michael Larkov

Michael Larkov
Personal information
Full nameMykhailo Mykhailovych Larkov
Born (2009-01-05) 5 January 2009 (age 17)
Shepetivka
Sport
Country Ukraine
SportSnooker
Highest ranking109 (July 2026)
Current ranking 124 (as of 4 October 2026)

Mykhailo Mykhailovych Larkov (born 5 January 2009), better known as Michael Larkov, is a Ukrainian professional snooker 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.

Biography

Larkov was born in Shepetivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. In 2021, aged 12, he became the youngest winner of the Ukrainian pyramid billiards Championship. In 2022 Larkov won the bronze medal at the World Open Under-16 Snooker Championships. 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.

Larkov was a semi-finalist at the 2024 DMT Best of Europe Snooker Championship, losing to Belgian professional Ben Mertens. That year, Larkov defeated Kyrylo Baidala in the final of the 2024 Ukrainian National Snooker Championship in Lviv. 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.

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. The following week, he advanced to the knockout stages of the WSF Championship in Sofia. He lost 10-5 to Ross Muir in the first round of qualifying for the 2026 World Snooker Championship.

Larkov played his debut event as a professional in the qualifying rounds for the 2026 China Open in June 2026, losing in the first round to Hammad Miah. That month, he had his first match win as a professional with a defeat of Antoni Kowalski of Poland in the first qualifying round of the 2026 Wuhan Open.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2025/
26		 2026/
27
Ranking
Ranking tournaments
Championship League A RR
China Open NH LQ
Wuhan Open A LQ
British Open A LQ
English Open A LQ
Shenzhen Open A LQ
Northern Ireland Open A LQ
International Championship A
UK Championship A
Shoot Out A
Scottish Open A
German Masters A
Welsh Open A
World Grand Prix DNQ
Players Championship DNQ
World Open A
Tour Championship DNQ
World Championship LQ
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
DQ disqualified from the tournament
NH / Not Heldevent was not held
NR / Non-Ranking Eventevent is/was no longer a ranking event
R / Ranking Eventevent is/was a ranking event
MR / Minor-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a minor-ranking event
PA / Pro-am Eventmeans an event is/was a pro-am event
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
  2. ↑ He was an amateur
  3. ↑ New players don't have a ranking
  4. ↑ The event was called the Xi'an Grand Prix (2025/2026)

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) Turkey Enes Bakirci 0–2
Winner 1. 2022 German Snooker Tour - Event 24 (2022–2023) Germany Christian Richter 3–2
Winner 2. 2022 German Snooker Tour - Event 54 (2022–2023) Germany Christian Richter 2–0
Winner 3. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 85 (2022–2023) Ukraine Heorhii Petrunko 2–1
Winner 4. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 34 (2023–2024) Ukraine Matvei Lagodzinschii 1–0
Winner 5. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 37 (2023–2024) Ukraine Matvei Lagodzinschii 2–0
Runner-up 2. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 39 (2023–2024) Germany Richard Wienold 1–2
Runner-up 3. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 65 (2023–2024) Syria Omar Alkojah 1–2
Runner-up 4. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 72 (2023–2024) Ukraine Heorhii Petrunko 1–3
Runner-up 5. 2024 German Grand Prix - Event 3 (2023–2024) Germany Alexander Widau 0–3
Runner-up 6. 2024 German Grand Prix - Event 4 (2023–2024) Germany Alexander Widau 0–3
Runner-up 7. 2024 German Snooker Tour - Event 122 (2023–2024) Germany Lukas Kleckers 0–2
Winner 6. 2024 German Snooker Tour - Final (2023–2024) Germany Lukas Kleckers 1–0
Winner 7. 2024 German Snooker Tour - Event 40 (2024–2025) Turkey Ismail Türker 2–0
Winner 8. 2024 Ukrainian Amateur Championship Ukraine Kyryl Baidala 5–1
Winner 9. 2025 German Grand Prix - Event 5 (2024–2025) Germany Fabian Haken 3–0
Winner 10. 2026 WSF Junior Championship China Wang Xinbo 5–2

Team finals: 1 (1 title)

Outcome No. Year Championship Team/Partner Opponent(s) in the final Score Ref.
Winner 1. 2025 EBSA European Team Snooker Championship  Ukraine
Anton Kazakov		  Malta 3
Philip Ciantar
Isaac Borg		 3–1

Notes

  1. ↑
    • In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykhailovych and the family name is Larkov.
    • Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Ларков, pronounced [mɪˈxɑjlo mɪˈxɑjlɔvɪtʃ ˈlɑrkɔv].
    • Various transliterations of Larkov's given name have been used by different sources. The transliteration Mykhailo follows the official transliteration table as suggested by a Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers resolution in 2010. The WST, the WPBSA and snooker.org all currently use the English/German variant Michael.

References

  1. ↑ "Mykhailo Larkov". Tournamentservice.net. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "Transliteration of the Ukrainian alphabet in Latin". Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  3. ↑ "Michael Larkov". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  4. ↑ "Player: Michael Larkov". snookerscores.net. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  5. ↑ "Michael Larkov". snooker.org. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  6. ↑ "Чемпіонат України 2021 "Динамічна піраміда" - прорив дійсний уваги!" [The 2021 Ukrainian 'Dynamic Pyramid' Championship – a real eye-catcher!]. billiard.net.au (in Ukrainian). April 23, 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  7. ↑ "Михайло Ларков - бронзовий медаліст" [Mykhailo Larkov – bronze medallist]. billiard.net.au (in Ukrainian). 17 August 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  8. ↑ "Larkov gewinnt German Snooker Tour Finale in Heilbronn" [Larkov wins German Snooker Tour final in Heilbronn]. TSG 1845 Heilbronn e.V. (Billards department) (in German). Retrieved 22 Jan 2026.
  9. ↑ Day, Michael (31 Dec 2024). "Home hero Ben Mertens wins DMT Best of Europe Snooker Championship pro-am title". Totally Snookered. Retrieved 22 Jan 2026.
  10. ↑ "TEENAGE SENSATION LARKOV WINS UKRAINIAN NATIONAL TITLE". wpbsa. 14 November 2024. Retrieved 23 Jan 2026.
  11. ↑ "HAMMAD MIAH WINS Q TOUR EUROPE TITLE IN STOCKHOLM". wst.tv. 1 Sep 2025. Retrieved 22 Jan 2026.
  12. ↑ "JUNIOR SEMIS SET IN SOFIA". worldsnookerfederation.org. 22 January 2026. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  13. ↑ "LARKOV LIFTS WSF JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE". wpbsa.com. 23 January 2026. Retrieved 23 Jan 2026.
  14. ↑ "KNOCKOUT STAGES SET IN SOFIA". wpbsa. 28 January 2026. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  15. ↑ "HALO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFYING: DAY TWO AS IT HAPPENED". wst.tv. 7 April 2026. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  16. ↑ "CHINA OPEN QUALIFIERS - DAY THREE". wst.tv. 12 June 2026. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  17. ↑ Livie, Alex (15 June 2026). "Jimmy White falls at first hurdle in Wuhan Open qualifying, Phil O'Kane claims first win since earning tour card". TNT Sports. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  18. ↑ http://esnooker.pl/turnieje/2025/dme/en/dmem_2025.php