Michael Larkov

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 2026/27Ranking Ranking tournamentsChampionship LeagueARRChina OpenNHLQWuhan OpenALQBritish OpenALQEnglish OpenALQShenzhen Open ALQNorthern Ireland OpenAInternational ChampionshipAUK ChampionshipAShoot OutAScottish OpenAGerman MastersAWelsh OpenAWorld Grand PrixDNQPlayers ChampionshipDNQWorld OpenATour ChampionshipDNQWorld ChampionshipLQ Performance Table LegendLQ 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-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD withdrew from the tournamentDQ disqualified from the tournament NH / Not Held event was not heldNR / Non-Ranking Event event is/was no longer a ranking eventR / Ranking Event event is/was a ranking eventMR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking eventPA / Pro-am Event means an event is/was a pro-am event

Career finals Amateur finals: 17 (10 titles) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final ScoreRunner-up 1. 2022 German Snooker Tour - Event 20 (2022–2023) Enes Bakirci 0–2Winner 1. 2022 German Snooker Tour - Event 24 (2022–2023) Christian Richter 3–2Winner 2. 2022 German Snooker Tour - Event 54 (2022–2023) Christian Richter 2–0Winner 3. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 85 (2022–2023) Heorhii Petrunko 2–1Winner 4. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 34 (2023–2024) Matvei Lagodzinschii 1–0Winner 5. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 37 (2023–2024) Matvei Lagodzinschii 2–0Runner-up 2. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 39 (2023–2024) Richard Wienold 1–2Runner-up 3. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 65 (2023–2024) Omar Alkojah 1–2Runner-up 4. 2023 German Snooker Tour - Event 72 (2023–2024) Heorhii Petrunko 1–3Runner-up 5. 2024 German Grand Prix - Event 3 (2023–2024) Alexander Widau 0–3Runner-up 6. 2024 German Grand Prix - Event 4 (2023–2024) Alexander Widau 0–3Runner-up 7. 2024 German Snooker Tour - Event 122 (2023–2024) Lukas Kleckers 0–2Winner 6. 2024 German Snooker Tour - Final (2023–2024) Lukas Kleckers 1–0Winner 7. 2024 German Snooker Tour - Event 40 (2024–2025) Ismail Türker 2–0Winner 8. 2024 Ukrainian Amateur Championship Kyryl Baidala 5–1Winner 9. 2025 German Grand Prix - Event 5 (2024–2025) Fabian Haken 3–0Winner 10. 2026 WSF Junior Championship Wang Xinbo 5–2

Team finals: 1 (1 title)