Mykhailo Larkov (born 5 January 2009) is a Ukrainian snooker and billiards 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 2026âÂÂ27 snooker season.
From Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, in 2021, at the age of 12 years-old, Larkov became the youngest winner, competing in billiards, of the Ukrainian Pyramid Championship. In 2022 competing in snooker, Larkov won the bronze medal at the World U16 Snooker Championship. 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 first WPBSA Q Tour Europe event of the 2025-26 season, 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 ThailandâÂÂs 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.