"the United Kingdom after John Part in 1994. Defending champion Les Wallace lost in the second round to 1996 champion Steve Beaton. The prize money was £160,400. There was also a 9 Dart Checkout prize of £52,000, along with a High Checkout prize of £1,600. 1998 BDO World Darts Championship The 1998 Embassy World Professional Darts Championship was held from 3–11 January 1998 at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey. It saw Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld, the number one seed, win the first of four BDO world titles (and five overall), avenging his defeat by Richie Burnett in"
"1996). Dennis is also a massive football fan. He supports Barnsley and Manchester United. He also enjoys other sports including Horse Racing and Golf. Dennis Priestley Dennis Priestley (born 16 July 1950) is a retired English professional darts player. He has won two world championships, and was the first player to win both the BDO and WDC (now PDC) world championships, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He is nicknamed ""The Menace"", after the cartoon character Dennis the Menace, and reflects this by wearing red and black, and using red and black flights. Born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, Priestley was originally"
"Phil Taylor (darts player) Philip Douglas Taylor (born 13 August 1960) is an English retired professional darts player, nicknamed The Power. He is widely regarded as the greatest darts player of all time, having won 214 professional tournaments, including 85 major titles and a record 16 World Championships. He won eight consecutive World Championships from 1995 to 2002 and reached 14 consecutive finals from 1994 to 2007 (both records). He won the PDC Player of the Year award six times (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) and has twice been nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year,"
"Phil Taylor (darts player) Philip Douglas Taylor (born 13 August 1960) is an English retired professional darts player, nicknamed The Power. He is widely regarded as the greatest darts player of all time, having won 214 professional tournaments, including 85 major titles and a record 16 World Championships. He won eight consecutive World Championships from 1995 to 2002 and reached 14 consecutive finals from 1994 to 2007 (both records). He won the PDC Player of the Year award six times (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) and has twice been nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year,"
"Adrian Lewis Adrian Lewis (born 21 January 1985) is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. Lewis is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won $72,000 in gambling winnings in Las Vegas in 2005, but he was not old enough to collect the money as he was 20 years old at the time and therefore below the US legal gambling age of 21. During the early part of his career until 2007, he was a protégé of 16-time world champion Phil Taylor, with whom he practised"
"Eric Bristow Eric John Bristow, (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018), nicknamed ""The Crafty Cockney"", was an English professional darts player. He was ranked World No. 1 by the World Darts Federation a record six times, in 1980 and 81, 1983 to 1985, and in 1990. He was a five-time World Champion, a five-time World Masters Champion and a four-time World Cup singles champion. He won 22 WDF and BDO Major titles and 70 career titles overall. In the 1980s, Bristow's skill and personality helped turn darts into a worldwide spectator sport. In 1993, Bristow was one of sixteen"
"Dennis Priestley Dennis Priestley (born 16 July 1950) is a retired English professional darts player. He has won two world championships, and was the first player to win both the BDO and WDC (now PDC) world championships, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He is nicknamed ""The Menace"", after the cartoon character Dennis the Menace, and reflects this by wearing red and black, and using red and black flights. Born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, Priestley was originally a coal merchant by trade, and did not enter professional darts until he was almost 40 years old. He first caught the eye in"
"Richie Burnett Richard ""Richie"" Burnett (born 7 February 1967) is a Welsh professional darts player and former World No. 1 who won the 1995 Embassy World Darts Championship and plays in Professional Darts Corporation His nickname is the Prince of Wales. Burnett was born in Cwmparc, Rhondda, and first came to prominence shortly after the split in the game, after the PDC and the BDO players went their separate ways. Burnett began to win many titles in the BDO in 1994, which included the Dutch Open, Welsh Open, British Matchplay and the Denmark Open. He then added one of the"
"Darts. Glazier Quit the BDO in 1997. Alan Glazier Alan Glazier (born 21 January 1939 in Hampton, London) is an English retired professional darts player. He used the nickname ""The Ton Machine"" and was noted for his all-black outfits. He now resides in Rochdale where he still plays darts for his local pub team. He was one of the first darts players who turned professional in an attempt to make a full-time living from the game of darts as it grew in popularity during the 1970s. He was one of the players who appeared in the very first World Professional"
"his third wife, Brenda Little, in the summer of 2005, and changed his name from Alan Warriner to Alan Warriner-Little. Warriner is also a Manchester United supporter as stated on his Twitter account. Alan Warriner-Little Alan Warriner-Little (born Alan Warriner on 24 March 1962 in Lancaster, Lancashire) is a former English professional darts player. He lives in Crosby, Cumbria and played with the nickname The Iceman. He is a former World Grand Prix champion, and a former runner-up at the World Professional Darts Championship. Before coming to prominence as a darts professional, Warriner-Little appeared as a contestant in a 1987"
"Alan Glazier Alan Glazier (born 21 January 1939 in Hampton, London) is an English retired professional darts player. He used the nickname ""The Ton Machine"" and was noted for his all-black outfits. He now resides in Rochdale where he still plays darts for his local pub team. He was one of the first darts players who turned professional in an attempt to make a full-time living from the game of darts as it grew in popularity during the 1970s. He was one of the players who appeared in the very first World Professional Darts Championship in 1978, losing to Alan"
"Bob Anderson (darts player) Robert Charles ""Bob"" Anderson (born 7 November 1947 in Winchester, Hampshire, England) is a retired English professional darts player and former World Champion. He was the World No. 1 player for over three years in the late 1980s. Nicknamed The Limestone Cowboy, he lives in Clevedon in Somerset. Anderson threw his first darts maximum (180) at the age of just seven. However, he was renowned as a champion athlete during his teenage years. He was picked as a javelin thrower in the British Olympic team of 1968, but broke his arm before the team left for"
"Colin Lloyd Colin Edward Lloyd (born 7 August 1973 in Colchester, Essex), nicknamed Jaws, is an retired English professional darts player on the Professional Darts Corporation circuit. He is a former world number one ranked player and he has won two major television titles in the PDC – the 2004 World Grand Prix and the 2005 World Matchplay. A former builder, Lloyd broke onto the scene in 1999, making his TV debut the same year, In the first round he beating Steve Cummings 10–8, thrashing Alan Warriner 13–2 in the second round and the Quarter Finals losing to Peter Manley"
"Alan Warriner-Little Alan Warriner-Little (born Alan Warriner on 24 March 1962 in Lancaster, Lancashire) is a former English professional darts player. He lives in Crosby, Cumbria and played with the nickname The Iceman. He is a former World Grand Prix champion, and a former runner-up at the World Professional Darts Championship. Before coming to prominence as a darts professional, Warriner-Little appeared as a contestant in a 1987 edition of the ITV gameshow Bullseye whilst working as a psychiatric nurse at a Lancaster hospital. He scored 340 which was doubled for charity. He made his World Championship debut in 1989, losing"
"disappointing exit from the 2008 UK Open, losing in the Preliminary Round to pub qualifier Johnny Haines. John Kuczynski John Kuczynski (born October 16, 1973 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania) is a former American professional darts player. He currently resides in Zion Grove, Pennsylvania and used the nickname Johnny K for his matches. For five years running – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 – he was ranked number one according to American Darts Organisation's (ADO) points standings. He played at the 2005 BDO World Darts Championship, losing in the first round to former world champion Ted Hankey. He was the ADO's"
"Bobby George Robert Francis ""Bobby"" George (born 16 December 1945) is an English television presenter and former professional darts player. He is widely recognised as one of the game's biggest personalities, known for his flamboyant entrances in which the ""King of Darts"" makes his way to the stage bedecked in jewellery, wearing a crown and cloak and holding a candelabra to the Queen song ""We Are the Champions"". George won several leading darts tournaments, he won the News of the World Darts Championship twice and appeared in two BDO Darts World Championship finals and was the first full-time exhibition player."
"Lionel Sams Lionel Jeffrey Sams (born 20 January 1961 in Paddington, London) is a former English darts player who previously played in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments. His nickname was The Lion for his matches. Since 2011, he played for the British Darts Organisation (BDO). Sams' first televised darts match was on Anglia Television in 1986 at the Ladbrokes Festival (British Matchplay). He reached the final, but lost to Terry O'Dea. He then had some minor tournament victories including the Camber Sands Singles (1988) and Kent Open (1988 and 1989) but it was a long time before he made"
"John Lowe John Lowe (born 21 July 1945 in Chesterfield) is a former World No. 1 English retired professional darts player who was one of the most talented and best known darts players during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the United Kingdom. Lowe is one of only six players to have won the World Championship three times, having done so in 1979, 1987 and 1993. He is the first player to have won the World Championship in three separate decades. Lowe's titles and achievements span a career of almost forty years, but he is also well known for being"
"he was also the manager of former PDC world number one Colin Lloyd. Harrington is married to Dawn, and has three children: Victoria, Curtis, and Ryan. Harrington's son Ryan (born 1990) is a darts player on the PDC circuit. Rod Harrington Rod Harrington (born 30 December 1957 in Boreham, Essex) is an English former World No. 1 professional darts player and commentator and analyst on Sky Sports. He used the nickname The Prince of Style for his matches, often wearing a suit and waistcoast for his games. Harrington enjoyed some major success during his professional career including the prestigious Winmau"
"Waites. George has worked as an ambassador for basic arithmetic, touring schools teaching children how darts can help with counting skills. Bobby George Robert Francis ""Bobby"" George (born 16 December 1945) is an English television presenter and former professional darts player. He is widely recognised as one of the game's biggest personalities, known for his flamboyant entrances in which the ""King of Darts"" makes his way to the stage bedecked in jewellery, wearing a crown and cloak and holding a candelabra to the Queen song ""We Are the Champions"". George won several leading darts tournaments, he won the News of"
"Rod Harrington Rod Harrington (born 30 December 1957 in Boreham, Essex) is an English former World No. 1 professional darts player and commentator and analyst on Sky Sports. He used the nickname The Prince of Style for his matches, often wearing a suit and waistcoast for his games. Harrington enjoyed some major success during his professional career including the prestigious Winmau World Masters in 1991 and two successive World Matchplays in 1998 and 1999. He started his career before the game split into two separate organisations during the early 1990s. He accumulated many Open tournament titles including the Belgian Open"
"the five-time World Champion. Mark lost 3 sets to 0 against Gary Anderson in the World Darts Championship 2017 first round in his debut in the competition. Mark Frost (darts player) Mark Frost (born 23 October 1971) is an English darts player from Stoke-on-Trent. He plays in Professional Darts Corporation events and uses the nickname Frosty the Throw Man for his matches. He is not a professional and works as a scaffolder. Frost made his televised debut at the 2008 Stan James World Matchplay, where he qualified through the PDC Pro Tour order of merit. He faced Raymond van Barneveld"
"seed Glen Durrant 4–0. Larry Butler (darts player) Larry Butler (born July 21, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American professional darts player, nicknamed The Bald Eagle who was the winner of the 1994 PDC World Matchplay Darts Championship. This success made him the first, and so far only American player to have won a major darts tournament in Europe. He also had some success in his home country, winning the 1993, 1994, 1995 New York Open, the 1994 Darts America Championship, the 1991, 1992, 1993 World Bullshooter Championship and the 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995 Cincinnati Spring Fling Open. Butler"
"Les Wallace Les Wallace (born 22 February 1962 in Forres) is a Scottish, former World Champion darts player. He lives in Millbrook, Southampton, England. He adopted the nickname McDanger - coming out for his matches dressed in a traditional kilt. He won the 1997 BDO World Darts Championship which is one of the two versions of the World Professional Darts Championship. Wallace reached the final of the 1993 Winmau World Masters, losing to Steve Beaton. He won the title five years later, beating Alan Warriner in the final. Wallace made his first appearance at the World Championship in 1995, losing"
"Tony O'Shea Tony O'Shea (born 9 May 1961) is an English darts player. He was born in Stockport and is of Irish descent. His squat figure has resulted in the nickname Silverback. He has reached the finals of seven BDO major darts tournaments, but to date has never won one. In 2002 he made his debut at the BDO World Darts Championship, narrowly losing to former Masters champion Colin Monk 3–2. O'Shea returned the following year and beat former champion Ted Hankey 3–2 in the first round, before once again being beaten by Monk 3–2 - this time in the"
"John Kuczynski John Kuczynski (born October 16, 1973 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania) is a former American professional darts player. He currently resides in Zion Grove, Pennsylvania and used the nickname Johnny K for his matches. For five years running – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 – he was ranked number one according to American Darts Organisation's (ADO) points standings. He played at the 2005 BDO World Darts Championship, losing in the first round to former world champion Ted Hankey. He was the ADO's 2006 National cricket champion. In 2005, he reached the last 32 at the Las Vegas Desert Classic"
"has dominated the competition, last winning it in 2013. Other than Taylor, there have only been seven other champions. The only other players to win it more than once are John Part (2003 & 2008), Adrian Lewis (2011 & 2012), Gary Anderson (2015 & 2016) and Michael van Gerwen (2014 & 2017). The one-time winners are the inaugural champion Dennis Priestley, the Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld (2007), and reigning champion Cross. In 1992, some high-profile players, including all previous winners of the BDO World Darts Championship still active in the game, formed the WDC (now PDC), and in 1994, held"
"Gary Anderson (darts player) Gary Anderson (born 22 December 1970) is a Scottish professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation, and a former BDO and WDF world number one. He is a two-time PDC World Champion, having won the title in 2015 and 2016. His nickname is The Flying Scotsman. Anderson is renowned for his heavy scoring in the game and having one of the smoothest throws. Anderson is a two-time back-to-back PDC World Champion after defeating Adrian Lewis 7–5 in the 2016 final, while he was also a finalist in 2011 and 2017. His other career"
"Alexander who shared the role with Jim Proudfoot and John Rawling. Tony Green Anthony John ""Tony"" Green (born 29 January 1939) is an English sports commentator and television presenter. A former amateur player, who played county darts for Lancashire, he was the BBC's lead commentator when they showed the annual World Professional Darts Championship staged at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey. In 2017 the tournament was televised by Channel 4 and BT Sport and Green was not on the commentary roster. In his capacity as a British Darts Organisation (BDO) official, he was a protagonist in the"
"2002 BDO World Darts Championship The 2002 Embassy World Professional Darts Championship was held from 5–13 January 2002 at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey. This was the milestone 25th year of the BDO World Championship. England's John Walton was the defending champion and number 1 seed, but was knocked out 3–2 in the second round by Colin Monk. Tony David defeated number 4 seed Mervyn King 6–4 in the final. The championship also saw Bobby George become the oldest man to play in the World Championship, at age 56. Men The prize money was £189,400 for the"
"Larry Butler (darts player) Larry Butler (born July 21, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American professional darts player, nicknamed The Bald Eagle who was the winner of the 1994 PDC World Matchplay Darts Championship. This success made him the first, and so far only American player to have won a major darts tournament in Europe. He also had some success in his home country, winning the 1993, 1994, 1995 New York Open, the 1994 Darts America Championship, the 1991, 1992, 1993 World Bullshooter Championship and the 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995 Cincinnati Spring Fling Open. Butler made his World Championship"
"darts circuit after failing to retain his tour card. In 2018 he entered the PDC's Q-School qualifying event in an attempt to win back a tour card, but was unsuccessful. He is currently playing on the PDC's Challenge Tour for second-tier players. As of March 2018 he has participated in the British Darts Organisation and is currently ranked world number 29. He qualified for the 2019 BDO world championships. He currently resides in Fleetwood, and uses the nickname The Warrior for his matches. His younger brother Dale Newton is a former professional player and they both played in the 2006"
"Jocky Wilson in 2009. Gary Anderson (darts player) Gary Anderson (born 22 December 1970) is a Scottish professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation, and a former BDO and WDF world number one. He is a two-time PDC World Champion, having won the title in 2015 and 2016. His nickname is The Flying Scotsman. Anderson is renowned for his heavy scoring in the game and having one of the smoothest throws. Anderson is a two-time back-to-back PDC World Champion after defeating Adrian Lewis 7–5 in the 2016 final, while he was also a finalist in 2011 and"