1980 BDO World Darts Championship

September 2013 January 2024 1980 BDO World Darts Championship 2–9 February 1980 Jollees Cabaret Clubhttp://www.learnaboutdarts.com/world-championship-of-darts.htm The World Championship of Darts Learnaboutdarts.com 3 February 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20101218152148/http://www.learnaboutdarts.com/world-championship-of-darts.htm 18 December 2010 dead Stoke-on-Trent BDO SetsFinal – best of 9 £15,000 £4,500 161 ENG Tony Sontag161 AUS Terry O'Dea ENG Eric BristowRalph Hickok http://www.hickoksports.com/history/wdartschampions.shtml History – World Darts Champions HickokSports.com 16 January 2010 3 February 2011 https://archive.today/20121209090856/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/wdartschampions.shtml 9 December 2012 dead dmy-all 1979 1981 The 1980 BDO World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as The 1980 Embassy World Darts Championship) was the third year that the British Darts Organisation had staged a world championship. Again the field was 24 players, with the top seeds receiving a bye to the last 16 stage. For the second successive year the tournament was staged at Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent. Defending champion John Lowe, who had released a book The Lowe Profile just before the event suffered a surprise defeat 0–2 to Cliff Lazarenko saying afterwards "If you miss your doubles in this one, you must expect to go out." Eric Bristow was then immediately installed as favourite to win the event and would meet another flamboyant character of the game in the final – Bobby George. George, who was not invited to the qualifiers the previous year appeared in a sequined shirt and when arriving on the stage was presented with a candelabra to complete a Liberace effect. He also made the early running in the final leading 1–0, 2–1 and 3–2. The first six sets all went to a deciding leg until Bristow won the seventh 3–1 to establish a 4–3 set lead. In the next set at 2–2 in legs, George had a golden opportunity to level the match and take it to a decider, but bust his score and nonchalantly threw his third dart into the board before putting his darts into his top pocket in anticipation of Bristow checking out to win the title. Bristow did so.February 2011 Bristow later said: "This was the final that changed the game of darts forever. Before that the audiences were always quite subdued, there was never really a buzz around the place, but when Bobby and I played in that final every member of the audience got involved. Everybody quite simply was going mad. It was a pit of noise. He had his fans, I had mine and both wanted to out-shout each other. Bristow Eric The Crafty Cockney: the Autobiography https://archive.org/details/craftycockneyaut0000bris 139 Arrow London 2010 9780099532798 Seeds ENG John Lowe ENG Eric Bristow ENG Tony Brown WAL Leighton Rees ENG Bobby George USA Nicky Virachkul SCO Jocky Wilson WAL Ceri Morgan Prize money The prize fund was £15,000. Champion: £4,500 Runner-Up: £2,000 3rd Place: £500 Semi-Finalists (2): £1,000 Quarter-Finalists (4): £500 Last 16 (8): £300 Last 24 (8): £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 7 sets)8 February Final (best of 9 sets)9 February 200 ENG Paul Gosling 77.79 0 ENG Cliff Lazarenko 81.40 2 CAN Allan Hogg 72.21 1 AUS Alan Grant 77.19 2 USA Len Heard 76.17 0 ENG Dave Whitcombe 81.99 2 SCO Rab Smith 85.02 1 ENG Tony Sontag 84.151 2 ENG Alan Glazier 69.33 0 WAL Tony Clark 78.45 2 USA Conrad Daniels 77.01 0 ENG Doug McCarthy 74.25 2 SWE Stefan Lord 78.39 1 ENG Bill Lennard 75.57 2 SCO Eric MacLean 81.72 1 AUS Terry O'Dea 82.29 2 1 ENG John Lowe 86.43 0 ENG Cliff Lazarenko 89.04 2 8 WAL Ceri Morgan 76.38 2 AUS Alan Grant 71.25 1 5 ENG Bobby George 91.20 2 ENG Dave Whitcombe 84.15 0 4 WAL Leighton Rees 78.78 2 ENG Tony Sontag 81.93 0 2 ENG Eric Bristow 79.89 2 WAL Tony Clark 79.23 0 7 SCO Jocky Wilson 82.11 2 ENG Doug McCarthy 79.14 0 6 USA Nicky Virachkul 76.56 0 ENG Bill Lennard 82.80 2 3 ENG Tony Brown 82.50 2 AUS Terry O'Dea 76.77 0 ENG Cliff Lazarenko 86.79 3 8 WAL Ceri Morgan 86.70 1 5 ENG Bobby George 75.39 3 4 WAL Leighton Rees 73.59 1 2 ENG Eric Bristow 81.90 3 7 SCO Jocky Wilson 78.90 0 ENG Bill Lennard 79.80 0 3 ENG Tony Brown 84.30 3 ENG Cliff Lazarenko 84.27 1 5 ENG Bobby George 79.89 4 2 ENG Eric Bristow 86.22 4 3 ENG Tony Brown 86.28 3 5 ENG Bobby George 86.49 3 2 ENG Eric Bristow 88.11 5 3rd place match (best of 3 sets) ENG Cliff Lazarenko 88.02 0 – 2 Tony Brown ENG 99.24 References Category:BDO World Darts Championships BDO World Darts 1980 Bdo World Darts Championship, 1980 Bdo World Darts Championship Category:1980 in English sport