- Winmau World Masters
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.
ponsors
1974-1975 Phonogram
1976-present WinmauVenues
[ [http://www.starsofdarts.com/forums/index.php?s=5f288654274cac960b03de74224f4033&showtopic=6607 Masters venues] Superstars of Darts forum] 1974-1976 West Centre Hotel, Fulham
1977-1981Wembley 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
1998-2001Lakeside Country Club , Frimley Green Surrey
2002-2005 Bridlington Spa Royal Hall
2006-now Leisure World, BridlingtonRecords
Most tournament wins "5 -
Eric Bristow ". Bob Anderson has three successes followed byDave Whitcombe ,John Lowe andRaymond 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 ofEric 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.
Previous Winners
Men's Final Results
Women's Champions
1982 Ann Marie Davies WAL1983 Sonja Ralphs ENG1984 Kathy Wones ENG1985 Lilian Barnett NZL1986 Kathy Wones ENG1987 Ann Thomas WAL1988 Mandy Solomons ENG1989 Mandy Solomons ENG1990 Rhian Speed WAL1991 Sandy Reitan USA1992 Leeanne Maddock WAL1993 Mandy Solomons ENG1994 Deta Hedman ENG1995 Sharon Colclough ENG1996 Sharon Douglas SCO1997 Mandy Solomons ENG1998 Karen Smith ENG 1999 Francis Hoenselaar NLD2000 Trina Gulliver ENG2001 Anne Kirk SCO2002 Trina Gulliver ENG2003 Trina Gulliver ENG2004 Trina Gulliver ENG2005 Trina Gulliver ENG2006 Francis Hoenselaar NLD2007 Karin Krappen NLD
Boys Champions
1986 Harith Lim SIN1987 Sean Bell ENG1988 Sean Dowling ENG1989 Dennis Beisser ENG1990 Craig Clancy ENG1991 Michael Barnard ENG1992 Leeanne Maddock WAL [http://www.bdodarts.com/winmauwinnersboys.shtml ] 1993 Jamie Caven ENG1994 Steven de Brucker BEL 1995 Martin Whatmough ENG1996 Carsten Hoffmann GER 1997 Aaron Turner ENG1998 Paul Higgins WAL 1999 Martin Brown ENG 2000 Danny Ballard ENG 2001 Stephen Bunting ENG 2002 Sean McDonald SCO 2003
Kirk Shepherd ENG2004 Oskar Lukasiak SWE 2005 Jonny Nijs NLD2006 Maarten Pape NED2007 Shaun Griffiths ENGGirls Champions
1999 Janine Gough WAL 2000 Janine Gough WAL2001 Anastasia Dobromislova RUS2002 Lynsey McDonald SCO 2003 Stevis Riggs ENG2004 Irene Adrianova RUS 2005 Laura Tye ENG2006 Kimberley Lewis WAL2007 Kimberley Lewis WAL
Media coverage
The Winmau World Masters currently gets shown live by the
BBC .References
External links
* [http://dartswdf.com/aa_darts/index.html World Darts Federation Official Homepage]
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