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 2006 Event 2 Sponsors 3 Venues 4 Trivia 5 Previous Winners 5.1 Men's Final Results 5.2 Women's Champions 5.3 Boys Champions 5.4 Girls Champions

[edit] 2006 Event

see main article: 2006 Winmau World Masters

[edit] Sponsors

1974-1975 Phonogram
1976-present Winmau

[edit] Venues

1974-1976 West Centre Hotel, Fulham
1977 Wembley Conference Centre
1978 Horticultural Hall, Victoria, London
1979-1980 Wembley Conference Centre
1982-1986 Rainbow Suite, Kensington
1997 Earls Court, London
1999-2001 Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green Surrey
2002-2005 Bridlington Spa Royal Hall
2006 Leisure World, Bridlington

[edit] Trivia

• 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 playing 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.

• Eric Bristow holds the record for most tournament wins with five. 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.

• The 2006 Champion, Michael van Gerwen eclipsed the record of Eric Bristow to become the youngest ever World Master at the age of 17 years, 174 days. He came back from 1-4 and 2-5 down to beat England captain, Martin Adams by 7 sets to 5.

• There have been two occasions where the defending champion has been ineligible to defend his title. In 1993, champion Dennis Priestley and his fellow WDC/PDC players were banned from the event. Michael van Gerwen will be ineligible for the competition in 2007 as he has also joined the PDC.

• The Winmau World Masters is one of the only major darts championships which holds four separate finals; Men, Women, Boys and Girls Masters.

[edit] Previous Winners

[edit] Men's Final Results

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

[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

[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

[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  Netherlands
2006 Kimberley Lewis  Wales

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