Winmau World Masters

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The Winmau World Masters is one of the longest running professional darts tournaments, which began in 1974 - even before the current World Professional Championship. The tournament has been sponsored by Darts board manufacturer, Winmau for 30 years and they have currently extended their contract to sponsor the event until 2010.

It is the final leg of the BDO’s Grand Slam title of televised majors, along with the Topic International Darts League, the Bavaria World Darts Trophy and the Lakeside World Professional Championship.

Contents 1 Sponsors 2 Venues 3 Records 4 Previous Winners 4.1 Men's Final Results 4.2 Women's Champions 4.3 Boys Champions 4.4 Girls Champions 5 Media coverage 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Sponsors

1974-1975 Phonogram
1976-present Winmau

[edit] Venues

^[1] 1974-1976 West Centre Hotel, Fulham
1977-1981 Wembley Conference Centre (finals were played at Horticultural Hall, Victoria, London in 1978 due to electrician's industrial action at Wembley)
1982-1989 Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1990-1991 Ramada Inn. Lillie Road, West London
1992-1995 Earls Court, London
1996-1997 Paragon Hotel, Lillie Road, London
1998-2001 Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green Surrey
2002-2005 Bridlington Spa Royal Hall
2006-now Leisure World, Bridlington

[edit] Records

Most tournament wins 5 - Eric Bristow. Bob Anderson has three successes followed by Dave Whitcombe, John Lowe and Raymond van Barneveld who have won the Masters twice each. Anderson is the only player to achieve the hat-trick by winning in three successive years.

Youngest champion Michael van Gerwen (2006) aged 17 years, 174 days eclipsed the record of Eric Bristow

Joint World Championship & Masters Champions Only four players have ever won the World Masters and the World Professional Championship in the same season. Eric Bristow achieved the feat three times (1979 Masters 1980 World, 1983-84 and 1984-85). Bob Anderson (1987 - 88), Richie Burnett (1994 - 95) and John Walton (2000 - 01) were the others. There have been two other instances of players holding both championships at the same time (Phil Taylor 1990 and Raymond van Barneveld 2005) - but these were not during the same season which is considered to end with the World Championship.

There are 11 players who have won the Masters and World Professional during their careers - Bristow, Anderson, Walton and Burnett plus John Lowe, Phil Taylor, Dennis Priestley, Steve Beaton, Les Wallace, Andy Fordham and Raymond van Barneveld.

[edit] Previous Winners

[edit] Men's Final Results

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-Up	Venue
1974	Cliff Inglis	beat	Harry Heenan	West Centre Hotel, Fulham
1975	Alan Evans	beat	David Rocky Jones	West Centre Hotel, Fulham
1976	John Lowe	beat	Phil Obbard	West Centre Hotel, Fulham
1977	Eric Bristow	beat	Paul Reynolds	Wembley Conference Centre
1978	Ron Davis	beat	Tony Brown	Horticultural Hall, Victoria, London
1979	Eric Bristow	beat	Allan Hogg	Wembley Conference Centre
1980	John Lowe	beat	Rab Smith	Wembley Conference Centre
1981	Eric Bristow	beat	John Lowe	Wembley Conference Centre
1982	Dave Whitcombe	beat	Jocky Wilson	Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1983	Eric Bristow	beat	Mike Gregory	Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1984	Eric Bristow	beat	Keith Deller	Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1985	Dave Whitcombe	beat	Ray Farrell	Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1986	Bob Anderson	beat	Bob Sinnaeve	Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1987	Bob Anderson	beat	John Lowe	Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1988	Bob Anderson	beat	John Lowe	Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1989	Peter Evison	beat	Eric Bristow	Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1990	Phil Taylor	beat	Jocky Wilson	Ramada Inn, West London
1991	Rod Harrington	beat	Phil Taylor	Ramada Inn, West London
1992	Dennis Priestley	beat	Mike Gregory	Earls Court, London
1993	Steve Beaton	beat	Les Wallace	Earls Court, London
1994	Richie Burnett	beat	Steve Beaton	Earls Court, London
1995	Erik Clarys	beat	Richie Burnett	Earls Court, London
1996	Colin Monk	beat	Richie Burnett	Paragon Hotel, London
1997	Graham Hunt (88.89)	3-2	Ronnie Baxter (91.26)	Paragon Hotel, London
1998	Les Wallace	3-2	Alan Warriner	Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green
1999	Andy Fordham (88.20)	3-1	Wayne Jones (81.87)	Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green
2000	John Walton (90.75)	3-2	Mervyn King (86.82)	Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green
2001	Raymond van Barneveld (95.64)	4-2	Jarkko Komula (95.16)	Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green
2002	Mark Dudbridge (88.65)	7-4	Tony West (86.76)	Bridlington Spa Royal Hall
2003	Tony West (96.60)	7-6	Raymond van Barneveld (96.84)	Bridlington Spa Royal Hall
2004	Mervyn King (97.86)	7-6	Tony O'Shea (98.19)	Bridlington Spa Royal Hall
2005	Raymond van Barneveld (94.71)	7-3	Goran Klemme (87.45)	Bridlington Spa Royal Hall
2006	Michael van Gerwen (94.50)	7-5	Martin Adams (93.69)	Leisure World, Bridlington
2007	Robert Thornton (94.26)	7-5	Darryl Fitton (95.28)	Leisure World, Bridlington

[edit] Women's Champions

1982 Ann Marie Davies  Wales
1983 Sonja Ralphs  England
1984 Kathy Wones  England
1985 Lilian Barnett  New Zealand
1986 Kathy Wones  England
1987 Ann Thomas  Wales
1988 Mandy Solomons  England
1989 Mandy Solomons  England
1990 Rhian Speed  Wales
1991 Sandy Reitan  United States
1992 Leeanne Maddock  Wales
1993 Mandy Solomons  England
1994 Deta Hedman  England
1995 Sharon Colclough  England
1996 Sharon Douglas  Scotland
1997 Mandy Solomons  England
1998 Karen Smith  England
1999 Francis Hoenselaar  Netherlands
2000 Trina Gulliver  England
2001 Anne Kirk  Scotland
2002 Trina Gulliver  England
2003 Trina Gulliver  England
2004 Trina Gulliver  England
2005 Trina Gulliver  England
2006 Francis Hoenselaar  Netherlands
2007 Karin Krappen  Netherlands

[edit] Boys Champions

1986 Harith Lim  Singapore
1987 Sean Bell  England
1988 Sean Dowling  England
1989 Dennis Beisser  England
1990 Craig Clancy  England
1991 Michael Barnard  England
1992 Leeanne Maddock  Wales[1]
1993 Jamie Caven  England
1994 Steven de Brucker  Belgium
1995 Martin Whatmough  England
1996 Carsten Hoffmann  Germany
1997 Aaron Turner  England
1998 Paul Higgins  Wales
1999 Martin Brown  England
2000 Danny Ballard  England
2001 Stephen Bunting  England
2002 Sean McDonald  Scotland
2003 Kirk Shepherd  England
2004 Oskar Lukasiak  Sweden
2005 Jonny Nijs  Netherlands
2006 Maarten Pape  Netherlands
2007 Shaun Griffiths  England

[edit] Girls Champions

1999 Janine Gough  Wales
2000 Janine Gough  Wales
2001 Anastasia Dobromislova  Russia
2002 Lynsey McDonald  Scotland
2003 Stevis Riggs  England
2004 Irene Adrianova  Russia
2005 Laura Tye  England
2006 Kimberley Lewis  Wales
2007 Kimberley Lewis  Wales

[edit] Media coverage

The Winmau World Masters currently gets shown live by the BBC.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• World Darts Federation Official Homepage

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