Magnus Caris

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Magnus Caris

Personal information
Date of birth
Place of birth	, Sweden
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	since 1987
Current World Ranking	194 (BDO) 197 (WDF)
BDO Grand Slam Events - Best Performances
World Ch'ship	Semi Final 1994
World Masters	Semi Final 1992
Infobox last updated on: April 5, 2008.

Magnus Caris is a Swedish darts player who competes for the British Darts Organisation.

Caris made seven BDO World Darts Championship appearances, his first coming in 1988, losing in the first round to Rick Ney of the United States. In 1990, he reached the quarter finals, beating Antero Rantala and Brian Cairns before losing to Eric Bristow.

He is famous for his semi final match in the 1994 BDO World Darts Championship against crowd favourite Bobby George. He defeated Wayne Weening, Leo Laurens and Martin Adams to set up a match with George who was struggling with a very bad back following his quarter final win over Kevin Kenny. Caris was 4 sets to 2 up as George looked down and out, however, the Englishman won an incredible nine straight legs to clinch victory 5-4 and leaving Caris to ponder what might have been in what is hailed as one of the most memorable comebacks in sporting history. ^[1]

He also played in the Winmau World Masters five times, with his best performance coming in 1992, reaching the semi finals with wins over John Lowe, Eric Bristow and Martin Adams before losing to Mike Gregory. He doesn't compete in many tournaments now, but still plays in the WDF World Cup and most recently played in the Finnish Open in March 2008.