1979 BDO World Darts Championship

December 2020 February 2012 1979 BDO World Darts Championship 2–9 February 1979 Jollees Cabaret ClubRalph Hickok http://www.hickoksports.com/history/wdartschampions.shtml History - World Darts Champions HickokSports.com 16 January 2010 2011-02-03 9 December 2012 https://archive.today/20121209090856/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/wdartschampions.shtml dead Stoke-on-Trent BDO SetsFinal – best of 9 £15,000 £4,500 161 ENG Tony Brown161 ENG Ronnie Davis ENG John Lowe 1978 1980 thumb|160px|1979 BDO World Darts Champion - John Lowe The 1979 BDO World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as The 1979 Embassy World Darts Championship) was the second World Professional Championships. Having been held the previous year at the Heart of the Midlands Club in Nottingham, the event moved to Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent where it was to remain until 1985.http://www.learnaboutdarts.com/world-championship-of-darts.htm The World Championship of Darts Learnaboutdarts.com 2011-02-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20101218152148/http://www.learnaboutdarts.com/world-championship-of-darts.htm 18 December 2010 dead The tournament was held between 2 February and 9 February and had been expanded from 16 players to 24. The eight seeded players each received a bye into the second round. The format also changed from a straight matchplay (legs) to sets. Each set was the best of 5 legs. - For matches in the opening rounds the matches were best of three sets, - best of five for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, with the final being best of 9 sets, split over an afternoon and evening session with the play-off for third held in between. Defending champion, Leighton Rees of Wales again progressed to the final where he met John Lowe in a repeat of the inaugural championship. This time, Lowe was the top seed and came out on top in the final by 5 sets to 0. New players With the expansion from 16 to 24 players in the finals, 11 players made their championship debuts, the most notable being John Wilson of Scotland, - no doubt to be soon known as Jocky. Wilson's performances over 1978 had enabled him to be seeded 8th for the tournament, and thus ensure a place in round 2 straight away. Seeds Wilson entering the seeds meant he would replace Rab Smith, the Scot having to play the first round before moving into the later stages. England's John Lowe had risen to be number 1 seed, with Eric Bristow dropping to 2nd seed after his first round defeat a year earlier. Leighton Rees remained seeded 3, with Tony Brown moving up to number 4. The Semi-Finalist from 1978 Nicky Virachkul was seeded 5th with the other Last 4-man, Stefan Lord seeded 6th. Alan Evans was the 7th seed along with Wilson as 8th. ENG John Lowe ENG Eric Bristow WAL Leighton Rees ENG Tony Brown USA Nicky Virachkul SWE Stefan Lord WAL Alan Evans SCO Jocky Wilson Prize money Total Prize fund was £15,000 (plus a £12,000 bonus for a nine-dart finish - not won) Champion £4,500 Runner-up £2,000 Third Place £1,500 Fourth Place £1,000 Quarter finalists £500 2nd round losers £300 1st round losers £200 Results First round (best of 3 sets)2–3 February Second round (best of 3 sets)4–6 February Quarter-finals (best of 5 sets)6–7 February Semi-finals (best of 5 sets)8 February Final (best of 9 sets)9 February 200 ENG Charlie Ellix 69.22 1 ENG Doug McCarthy 68.63 2 NZL Murray Smith 68.71 0 IRE Jim McQuillan 71.58 2 USA Andy Green 70.33 1 ENG Alan Glazier 77.43 2 AUS Barry Atkinson 76.74 1 WAL Ceri Morgan 78.62 2 ENG Cliff Lazarenko 78.47 0 AUS Terry O'Dea 79.90 2 ENG Tony Sontag 82.21 0 ENG Ronnie Davis 87.40 2 USA Conrad Daniels 72.02 1 SCO Rab Smith 74.65 2 ENG Bill Lennard 74.60 0 WAL Tony Clark 76.32 2 1 ENG John Lowe 88.84 2 ENG Doug McCarthy 71.73 0 8 SCO Jocky Wilson 72.17 2 IRE Jim McQuillan 73.25 1 5 USA Nicky Virachkul 86.62 1 ENG Alan Glazier 85.21 2 4 ENG Tony Brown 81.24 2 WAL Ceri Morgan 71.57 0 2 ENG Eric Bristow 81.45 2 AUS Terry O'Dea 65.40 0 7 WAL Alan Evans 79.75 2 ENG Ronnie Davis 82.34 0 6 SWE Stefan Lord 79.47 1 SCO Rab Smith 73.30 2 3 WAL Leighton Rees 76.90 2 WAL Tony Clark 77.78 1 1 ENG John Lowe 83.46 3 8 SCO Jocky Wilson 78.08 1 ENG Alan Glazier 86.58 2 4 ENG Tony Brown 84.57 3 2 ENG Eric Bristow 71.33 1 7 WAL Alan Evans 82.27 3 SCO Rab Smith 74.53 0 3 WAL Leighton Rees 83.16 3 1 ENG John Lowe 81.35 3 4 ENG Tony Brown 78.35 2 7 WAL Alan Evans 79.58 1 3 WAL Leighton Rees 76.96 3 1 ENG John Lowe 86.13 5 3 WAL Leighton Rees 77.61 0 John Lowe won the final 5-0 (3-1, 3-0, 3-0, 3-2, 3-0) and thus became the 1979 BDO World Darts Champion. Illness prevented Alan Evans from playing the third-place match, so Tony Brown took third place by default. References Category:BDO World Darts Championships BDO World Darts 1979 Bdo World Darts Championship, 1979 Bdo World Darts Championship BDO World Darts Championship