 Since 1977, seventeen world champions have experienced the curse, the most recent being the 2015 World Champion Stuart Bingham who lost his title the following year at the 2016 World Snooker Championship.The current world champion, Judd Trump, was a first-time winner in 2019 and if he defends his title in 2020, his challenge will be to overcome this long-standing "curse".The first-time world champions listed below all experienced the "Crucible curse", as they did not successfully defend their title at the following year's World Championship.