Pankaj Adwani has won the 'IBSF World Billiards Championship' for 22 times. He is the only cueist to have won the Asian and World Championships in all formats of Billiards and Snooker. He has the maximum IBSF world championships in billiards an snooker. He was honoured with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2006 .