1993 BDO World Darts Championship

December 2014 May 2026 BDO World Darts Championship 1–9 January 1993 Lakeside Country Club Frimley Green, Surrey England BDO SetsFinal – best of 11 £128,500 £30,000 170 NED Raymond van Barneveld ENG John Lowe 1992 1994 The 1993 BDO World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as The 1993 Embassy World Darts Championship) was the 16th staging of the competition, and it turned out to be the last time that the sport had a unified World Championship. In 1994 following a breakaway the PDC staged its own World Championship for the first time. In 1989, the World Championship was the only darts tournament which had received television coverage, and a group of 16 players (including all but one of the previous World Champions) wanted to appoint a PR consultant to improve the image of the game. They created the World Darts Council (WDC), later the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) in late January 1992, soon after a controversial VHS release of the 1992 World Final between Phil Taylor and Mike Gregory. By the time of the 1993 World Championship, the WDC had already held their own tournament, the 1992 UK Masters (won by Mike Gregory) in October 1992. The tournament had been broadcast on Anglia Television, and the WDC players wanted to see their exposure to television coverage increase. During the 1993 World Championship, the WDC players wore their new insignia on their sleeves. They were soon told to remove them by the tournament organisers, the BDO.Myweb.tiscali.co.uk https://web.archive.org/web/20061203065537/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/westondartsleague/DartsPages/history-darts.htm 3 December 2006 The WDC players decided that if they were not going to be recognised by the BDO they would no longer play in the Championships.Theiceman.co.uk https://web.archive.org/web/20070623103003/http://www.theiceman.co.uk/split.htm 23 June 2007 During the tournament, the 16 WDC players released a statement saying that they would only play in the 1994 World Championship if it came under the auspices of the WDC, and that they only recognised the WDC as having the authority to sanction their participation in darts tournaments worldwide. Despite this statement, the BDO held firm and the WDC players instead held their own 1994 World Championship, now known as the Split in darts. The second round saw several upset results including defeats of three former World Champions. Eric Bristow lost to Bob Anderson, while defending champion Phil Taylor lost to Kevin Spiolek. Dennis Priestley, the number one seed and tournament favourite, lost to Steve Beaton, despite Priestley having thrown a record average of 102.63 against Jocky Wilson in the first round. Other notable upsets during the tournament were Kevin Spiolek beating Kevin Kenny in the first round, Wayne Weening beating Rod Harrington in the first round, and Bobby George beating Mike Gregory in the quarter-finals. John Lowe went on to beat Alan Warriner in a low-quality final and claim this last unified world title in the sports of darts - the third world title of Lowe's career. With his previous victories in 1979 and 1987, he became the first player to win the World title in three different decades. This was Raymond van Barneveld's second world championship appearance (debut 1991), and he landed the highest checkout of the tournament, 170. Prize money Total Prize fund was £128,500 (plus a £51,000 bonus for a nine-dart finish - not won) Champion £30,000 Runner-up £15,000 Semi-finalists £7,500 Quarter-finalists £3,750 2nd round losers £2,000 1st round losers £1,800 Highest checkout £1,500 Non-qualifiers £400 Seeds ENG Dennis Priestley ENG Mike Gregory ENG Phil Taylor ENG Rod Harrington ENG Alan Warriner ENG John Lowe AUS Keith Sullivan ENG Bob Anderson 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 Dennis Priestley (102.63) 3 SCO Jocky Wilson (96.09) 0   ENG Steve Beaton (96.21) 3 ENG Davy Richardson (88.71) 1 8 ENG Bob Anderson (90.48) 3 ENG Scott Coleman (90.90) 1   ENG Eric Bristow (86.67) 3 DEN Per Skau (84.69) 1 5 ENG Alan Warriner (98.46) 3 NIR Mitchell Crooks (91.62) 0   SCO Ronnie Sharp (94.47) 3 NZL Peter Hunt (82.44) 0 4 ENG Rod Harrington (93.39) 2 AUS Wayne Weening (86.64) 3   CAN Albert Anstey (82.71) 3 USA Sean Downs (73.62) 0 2 ENG Mike Gregory (94.77) 3 SCO Jamie Harvey (86.91) 0   DEN Jann Hoffmann (81.99) 3 GER Bernd Hebecker (70.53) 0 7 AUS Keith Sullivan (88.89) 1 ENG Bobby George (86.55) 3   WAL Martin Phillips (87.27) 3 USA Dave Kelly (83.34) 1 6 ENG John Lowe (85.23) 3 WAL Chris Johns (79.56) 1   NED Raymond van Barneveld (89.43) 3 ENG Graham Miller (85.68) 2 3 ENG Phil Taylor (91.59) 3 IRL John Joe O'Shea (86.97) 1   ENG Kevin Spiolek (84.33) 3 ENG Kevin Kenny (82.95) 1 1 ENG Dennis Priestley (93.27) 1 ENG Steve Beaton (96.09) 3 8 ENG Bob Anderson (89.88) 3 ENG Eric Bristow (85.41) 0 5 ENG Alan Warriner (95.49) 3 SCO Ronnie Sharp (88.83) 1   AUS Wayne Weening (93.93) 3 CAN Albert Anstey (89.07) 0 2 ENG Mike Gregory (91.56) 3 DEN Jann Hoffmann (86.55) 1   ENG Bobby George (91.26) 3 WAL Martin Phillips (90.00) 0 6 ENG John Lowe (86.97) 3 NED Raymond van Barneveld (89.43) 2 3 ENG Phil Taylor (87.93) 1 ENG Kevin Spiolek (86.49) 3 ENG Steve Beaton (97.29) 4 8 ENG Bob Anderson (91.20) 1 5 ENG Alan Warriner (90.81) 4 AUS Wayne Weening (86.85) 1 2 ENG Mike Gregory (93.39) 2 ENG Bobby George (93.21) 4 6 ENG John Lowe (89.25) 4 ENG Kevin Spiolek (86.46) 3 ENG Steve Beaton (91.86) 2 5 ENG Alan Warriner (90.24) 5 ENG Bobby George (90.51) 3 6 ENG John Lowe (92.10) 5 5 ENG Alan Warriner (82.32) 3 6 ENG John Lowe (83.97) 6 References Category:BDO World Darts Championships Category:1990s in Surrey Category:Sport in Surrey Category:Frimley Green Bdo World Darts Championship, 1993 Bdo World Darts Championship Category:1993 in English sport