Editing Maximum break (section)

===Fastest===
O'Sullivan's 147 break in the first{{nbh}}round match against [[Mick Price (snooker player)|Mick Price]] at the [[1997 World Snooker Championship|1997 World Championship]] set the record for the fastest maximum in the history of the game. For many years ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' recorded the time of the break at 5 minutes and 20 seconds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-147-break-in-snooker/ |title=Fastest 147 break in snooker |work=[[Guinness World Records]] |access-date=25 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621100656/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-147-break-in-snooker/ |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> However an investigation undertaken by ''[[Deadspin]]'' in 2017 revealed that the time recorded by Guinness was incorrect because the timer was started too early on the BBC footage.<ref name="Deadspin_Tippett" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.eurosport.co.uk/snooker/world-championship/2016-2017/ronnie-osullivans-fastest-maximum-in-history-was-faster-than-official-time_sto6146498/story.shtml |title=Ronnie O'Sullivan's fastest maximum in history was faster than official time |date=28 April 2017 |website=[[Eurosport]] |access-date=25 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311021132/https://www.eurosport.co.uk/snooker/world-championship/2016-2017/ronnie-osullivans-fastest-maximum-in-history-was-faster-than-official-time_sto6146498/story.shtml |archive-date=11 March 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Breaks are not officially timed in snooker and the official [[rules of snooker]] do not specify how they should be timed, instead leaving the timing to the discretion of the broadcaster. The only timing methodology [[World Snooker]] sanctions in its events is the one employed in shot clock events where timing for a player's shot begins when the balls have come to rest from his opponent's previous shot. Under this convention the break would have been timed at 5 minutes and 15 seconds. World Snooker has since suggested that a break starts when the player strikes the cueball for the first time in a break which would result in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds, and this is the time that both World Snooker and ''Guinness World Records'' now officially acknowledge.<ref name="Max 020" /><ref name="Guinness_fastest">{{cite web |title=Fastest 147 break in snooker |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-147-break-in-snooker/ |work=[[Guinness World Records]] |access-date=25 May 2024 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525062037/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-147-break-in-snooker/ |url-status=live}}</ref>