1980 BDO World Darts Championship

1980 BDO World Darts Championship

The 1980 Embassy World Darts Championship was the third year that the British Darts Organisation had staged a world championship. Again the field was 24 players, with the top seeds receiving a bye to the last 16 stage. For the second successive year the tournament was staged at Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent.

Defending champion John Lowe, who had released a book "The Lowe Profile" just before the event suffered a surprise defeat 0-2 to Cliff Lazarenko saying afterwards "If you miss your doubles in this one, you must expect to go out." Eric Bristow was then immediately installed as favourite to win the event and would meet another flamboyant character of the game in the final - Bobby George.

George, who wasn't even invited to the qualifiers the previous year appeared in a sequined shirt and when arriving on the stage was presented with a candelabra to complete a Liberace effect. He also made the early running in the final leading 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2. The first six sets all went to a deciding leg until Bristow won the seventh 3-1 to establish a 4-3 set lead. In the next set at 2-2 in legs, George had a golden opportunity to level the match and take it to a decider but burst his score and nonchalently threw his third dart into the board before putting his darts into his top pocket in anticipation of Bristow checking out to win the title. Bristow did so.

The Results

Paul Gosling|0
| Allan Hogg|1
| Len Heard|0
| Rab Smith|1
| Eric MacLean|1
| Stefan Lord|1
| Conrad Daniels|0
| Alan Glazier|0
|flagicon|England Cliff Lazarenko|2|flagicon|England John Lowe|0
|flagicon|Wales Ceri Morgan|2|flagicon|Australia Alan Grant|0
|flagicon|England Bobby George|2|flagicon|England Dave Whitcombe|0
|flagicon|Wales Leighton Rees|2|flagicon|England Tony Sontag|0
|flagicon|England Tony Brown|2|flagicon|Australia Terry O'Dea|0
|flagicon|England Bill Lennard|2|flagicon|United States Nicky Virachkul|0
|flagicon|Scotland Jocky Wilson|2"'|flagicon|England Doug McCarthy|0
|flagicon|England Eric Bristow|2|flagicon|Wales Tony Clark|0
|flagicon|England Cliff Lazarenko|3|flagicon|Wales Ceri Morgan|1
|flagicon|England Bobby George|3|flagicon|Wales Leighton Rees|1
|flagicon|England Tony Brown|3|flagicon|England Bill Lennard|0
|flagicon|England Eric Bristow|3|flagicon|Scotland Jocky Wilson|0
|flagicon|England Bobby George|4|flagicon|England Cliff Lazarenko|1
|flagicon|England Eric Bristow|4|flagicon|England Tony Brown|3
("Best of 9 sets") Jollees Cabaret Club, Stoke-on-Trent, 9 February 1980).
flagicon|England Eric Bristow
5-3
Bobby George flagicon|England
Set scores (Bristow first)
2-3 3-2 2-3 3-2 2-3 3-2 3-1 3-2|
flagicon|England Eric Bristow wins the 1980 Embassy World Darts Championship
"Best of 3 sets"
"Best of 3 sets"
"Best of 5 sets"
"Best of 7 sets"

THIRD PLACE MATCH (Best of 3 sets)

flagicon|England Tony Brown beat Cliff Lazarenko flagicon|England 2-0


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