1994 BDO World Darts Championship

May 2013 December 2014 May 2026 1994 BDO World Darts Championship 1–8 January 1994 Lakeside Country Club Frimley Green, Surrey England, United Kingdom BDO SetsFinal – best of 11 £136,100 £32,000 161 SCO Trevor Nurse161 DEN Troels Rusel161 SWE Magnus Caris161 ENG Nick Gedney CAN John Part 1993 1995 The 1994 BDO World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 1994 Embassy World Darts Championship) was held following two years of controversy within the sport of darts. After the 1993 Championships, several players decided it was time to part company with the British Darts Organisation and form their own organisation, the World Darts Council (now known as the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)). By the start of this tournament, the WDC were in the closing days of their own 1994 World Championship, with Dennis Priestley going on to beat Phil Taylor in the final. Phil Taylor, Eric Bristow, John Lowe, Dennis Priestley, Jocky Wilson, Rod Harrington, Alan Warriner, Peter Evison, Richie Gardner, Keith Deller, Bob Anderson, Cliff Lazarenko, Kevin Spiolek, Jamie Harvey, Mike Gregory and Chris Johns were the players who formed the WDC and therefore did not participate at these 1994 Championships. Mike Gregory and Chris Johns eventually decided to go back to the BDO, but were unable to play in the 1994 BDO World Championship as their change was too late for them to be able to qualify. Dan Waddell wrote that the tournament "had the feel of the 1980 Moscow Olympics after the US boycott, or Test cricket during Packer's World Series; the best players and most enthralling characters in the game weren't there, so the whole event felt hollow and fraudulent." Waddell Dan We had some laughs https://archive.org/details/wehadsomelaughs0000wadd_b8b3 227 Corgi London 2017 9780552172141 Of the 32 players who took part in the Championship, 17 were world championship debutants, with many having never appeared in front of TV cameras before, including the eventual champion, John Part. Of the remaining 15 players in the tournament, only 8 of those had appeared in the 1993 Championship, with the other 7 having previously appeared in the World Championship in years before 1993. In an astonishing first round, 7 out of the 8 seeded players were knocked out, including the new BDO World Number One, Steve Beaton who had risen to the top of the rankings as a result of the defecting players. Only number 3 seed Roland Scholten won his first round match, although he went out in round two. As a result, players previously unheard of had a chance to make a name for themselves and Canada's John Part dropped only one set en route to the Championship. He beat Ronnie Baxter, Paul Lim, Steve McCollum and Ronnie Sharp on the way to final. Part then overwhelmed Bobby George 6-0 in the final.https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/darts-george-whitewashed-part-satisfied-1398802.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/darts-george-whitewashed-part-satisfied-1398802.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Darts: George whitewashed, Part satisfied The Independent 9 January 1994 2010-01-10 George, despite struggling with back problems, had reached his first final in 14 years. His semi-final against Sweden's Magnus Caris saw him comeback from 4 sets to 2 down, winning 9 successive legs to secure his place in the final.https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/darts-george-has-the-final-word-1398528.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/darts-george-has-the-final-word-1398528.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Darts: George has the final word The Independent 8 January 1994 2010-01-10 In the final, George hit less than 10% of his checkouts (5 from 49 attempts due to the immense pain caused by his broken back which he didn't know was broken at the time. https://web.archive.org/web/20061119173552/http://www.bobbygeorge.com/history.html 19 November 2006 ) and that was the difference as Part became the first player from outside the United Kingdom to win the World Championship. Despite being a surprise winner at the time, Part would also go on to win the PDC's version of the world championship on two occasions. Future three-time winner Martin Adams would also make his debut in this year's tournament. He qualified for the event every year until 2018, meaning he has the record for the BDO World Championship and is behind only Steve Beaton, Phil Taylor and John Lowe for consecutive appearances across both versions of the world championship. Prize money The prize fund was £136,100. Champion: £32,000 Runner-Up: £16,000 Semi-Finalists (2): £7,700 Quarter-Finalists (4): £3,800 Last 16 (8): £2,800 Last 32 (16): £1,500 There was also a 9 Dart Checkout prize of £52,000, along with a High Checkout prize of £1,500. Seeds ENG Steve Beaton ENG Ronnie Baxter NED Roland Scholten AUS Wayne Weening DEN Per Skau ENG Dave Askew ENG Shayne Burgess AUS Russell Stewart The Results First Round (best of 5 sets) Second Round (best of 5 sets) Quarter-Finals (best of 7 sets) Semi-Finals (best of 9 sets) Final (best of 11 sets) 200 1 ENG Steve Beaton (89.40) 2 ENG Nick Gedney (87.21) 3   ENG Kevin Kenny (88.23) 3 ENG Kevin Painter (85.68) 2 8 AUS Russell Stewart (79.17) 0 ENG Bobby George (84.06) 3   WAL Martin Phillips (85.53) 3 WAL Richard Herbert (86.13) 2 5 DEN Per Skau (78.30) 0 ENG Martin Adams (93.00) 3   SCO Bob Taylor (89.52) 3 USA Tony Payne (82.68) 0 4 AUS Wayne Weening (86.25) 2 SWE Magnus Caris (86.25) 3   BEL Leo Laurens (87.33) 3 WAL Eric Burden (88.86) 0 2 ENG Ronnie Baxter (81.66) 0 CAN John Part (85.23) 3   SIN Paul Lim (84.84) 3 USA Jim Damore (80.19) 0 7 ENG Shayne Burgess (77.52) 0 ENG Steve McCollum (80.31) 3   ENG Colin Monk (85.14) 3 DEN Jann Hoffmann (81.42) 0 6 ENG Dave Askew (72.51) 0 ENG Ian Sarfas (78.96) 3   DEN Troels Rusel (83.64) 3 SCO Alan Brown (84.60) 1 3 NED Roland Scholten (88.95) 3 WAL Sean Palfrey (85.59) 0   SCO Ronnie Sharp (82.02) 3 SCO Trevor Nurse (78.15) 2   ENG Nick Gedney (85.14) 2 ENG Kevin Kenny (82.17) 3   ENG Bobby George (91.71) 3 WAL Martin Phillips (83.01) 1   ENG Martin Adams (90.21) 3 SCO Bob Taylor (87.24) 1   SWE Magnus Caris (91.68) 3 BEL Leo Laurens (75.72) 0   CAN John Part (83.22) 3 SIN Paul Lim (79.11) 0   ENG Steve McCollum (86.85) 3 ENG Colin Monk (84.15) 1   ENG Ian Sarfas (81.96) 1 DEN Troels Rusel (82.47) 3 3 NED Roland Scholten (86.19) 1 SCO Ronnie Sharp (84.69) 3   ENG Kevin Kenny (82.29) 2 ENG Bobby George (81.54) 4   ENG Martin Adams (85.86) 2 SWE Magnus Caris (88.05) 4   CAN John Part (90.99) 4 ENG Steve McCollum (86.13) 0   DEN Troels Rusel (73.38) 1 SCO Ronnie Sharp (81.75) 4   ENG Bobby George (89.43) 5 SWE Magnus Caris (88.41) 4   CAN John Part (88.98) 5 SCO Ronnie Sharp (87.51) 1   ENG Bobby George (80.30) 0 CAN John Part (82.44) 6 References Category:BDO World Darts Championships Category:1990s in Surrey BDO World Darts Championship BDO World Darts Championship BDO World Darts Championship Category:Sport in Surrey Category:Frimley Green