Gerwyn Price

Gerwyn Price
Personal information
Full name Gerwyn Price
Nickname The Iceman
Born 7 March 1985
Wales
Home town Markham
Wales
Darts information
Playing darts since 2010
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC 2014–
Current world ranking 50
PDC premier events - best performances
World Ch'ship Last 64: 2015
UK Open Last 96: 2014
Other achievements
2015 Breaks into the top 64 on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time

Gerwyn Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. He has also played rugby union for Welsh Premier Division sides and currently plays for Neath.[1]

Rugby

Price has played as a hooker for Welsh Premier Division sides such as Cross Keys as well as rugby league with South Wales Scorpions. He also had a brief spell at Pro12 side Glasgow Warriors as injury cover for their first choice players.[2]

Darts

Price began playing darts for his local side Markham Welfare, before playing in the Super League for Aberbargoed. Welsh darts professional Barrie Bates advised him to enter Qualifying School to join the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) in January 2014 and Price was successful in the second event.[3] He won six matches on the day concluding with a 5–3 victory over Rowby-John Rodriguez to earn a two-year tour card.[4] He qualified for the 2014 UK Open and lost 5–2 to Aden Kirk in the second round.[5] He twice reached the last 16 stage of Players Championship events during the first half of 2014, losing to Michael van Gerwen and Stephen Bunting. In July, Price averaged 98.32 in beating former world number one Colin Lloyd 6–2 at the European Darts Open. In the second round he led Gary Anderson 2–0 but went on to lose 6–3.[6] At the 13th Players Championship, Price saw off Lloyd, Kirk, James Wade and Wayne Jones to advance to the quarter-finals for the first time, where he was edged out 6–5 by Adrian Lewis.[7]

Price qualified for the European Darts Trophy in Leipzig during mid September. There, he beat Bernd Roith 6–3 in the first round to face Steve Beaton in the second round. Thanks to a great performance, which included the tournament's highest finish of 167, he saw off Beaton 6–3 and won against Vincent van der Voort in the following round. He nearly qualified for the 2014 World Grand Prix, for which a place in the semi-finals was needed, but was beaten 6–3 in the quarter-finals by Andy Hamilton.[8] Price's impressive start to his darting career continued by reaching his first semi-final at the 19th Players Championship where he lost 6–3 to Ian White.[9] The £12,750 he earned in Pro Tour events during the campaign saw him finish 39th on the Order of Merit to claim the eighth of sixteen places that were on offer to non-qualified players for the 2015 PDC World Championship.[10] Price missed one dart at tops to level at one set all against Peter Wright in the first round and was beaten 3–0.[11] His successful year saw him start 2015 ranked world number 59.[12]

Price was knocked out of the preliminary round of the 2015 UK Open 5–2 by Matt Padgett.[13] On his way to his first quarter-final of the year, Price eliminated Adrian Lewis 6–4 with an average of 105.78 at the second Players Championship event, but he went on to lose 6–2 to James Wade.[14] At the Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Price defeated two top 16 players in Robert Thornton and Simon Whitlock to play in his second career European Tour quarter-final, where compatriot Jamie Lewis narrowly won 6–5.[15]

World Championship results

PDC

Personal life

In 2010, Price was punched outside a pub in Bargoed which required 42 stitches to his forehead and five to his chin, as well as suffering a brain haemorrhage and nerve damage to an eyebrow. His attacker received a 12 month jail term. Price also received a suspended sentence for assaulting another man in a related incident.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Gerwyn Price has left Cross Keys to join Neath". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Scorpions snap up former Neath hooker Gerwyn Price". South Wales Evening Post. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Keys hooker Gerwyn Price on target to become darts pro". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "2014 PDC Qualifying School Day Two". PDC. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Coral UK Open - Friday Afternoon". PDC. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "European Darts Open Second Round". PDC. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Six Of The Best For Anderson". PDC. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "European Darts Trophy Final Day". PDC. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  9. ↑ "Diamond Dazzles To Seal Coventry Crown". PDC. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "William Hill World Championship Field". PDC. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  11. ↑ "William Hill World Championship Day Two". PDC. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "Order of Merit on 5 January 2015". PDC. Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "Coral UK Open - Friday Afternoon". PDC. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  14. ↑ "Barnsley Win For Wondrous Wade". PDC. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  15. ↑ "Rock Solid van Gerwen's Gibraltar Glory". PDC. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  16. ↑ "Rugby player hospitalised after brawl outside Bargoed pub". Wales Online. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

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