Russell Stewart

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Russell Stewart (born October 9, 1960 in Canberra) is an Australian darts player. He used the nickname Rusty for his matches.

He made his World Championship debut in 1984, but lost in the first round to Peter Locke. He competed eleven times at the BDO World Championship, but failed to progress beyond the last sixteen. Between 1985 and 1991, he suffered defeats to some of the best players of the era including to Bob Anderson in 1988 and Phil Taylor in 1990 during their world title runs.

After eight successive appearances in the world championships, he missed out in 1992 and 1993 but returned to the event following the loss of many top players to the World Darts Council in 1994. He went out to Bobby George in the first round in 1994 and to Richie Burnett in the second round in 1995 - Burnett went on to take the title.

Stewart only managed to qualify for the World Championship on one further occasion - when he suffered a first round defeat to Mervyn King in 2002.

Stewart still competes in darts tournaments in his native country and came within one match of actually qualifying for the 2006 PDC World Darts Championship when he lost in the final of the Oceanic Masters to Warren Parry. [1] He also narrowly lost in the semi-finals of the same event to 15 year-old Mitchell Clegg to miss out on qualification for the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship. [2]