Griffiths also won the Masters and the UK Championship titles and worked as a broadcaster and coach following his retirement in 1997
Tributes are being paid to former world snooker champion Terry Griffiths, who has died at the age of 77.
The Wales native won the title in 1979 when he beat Dennis Taylor in the final at the Crucible.
Griffiths also won the Masters and the UK Championship titles and worked as a broadcaster and coach following his retirement in 1997.

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