Saturday 31st May 2008

FINLAND WIN BOTH MEN'S AND WOMEN'S NORDIC CUPS

Finland dominated the 2008 Nordic Cup winning both the Men's and Women's overall cups. Denmark won the Men's Team event defeating Finland 9-5 in the Final. The Men's Singles went to Jarkko Komula who defeated Sweden's Markus Korhonen by 4 legs to 1 and in the Women's Singles Pernilla Brodin beat Finland's Tarja Salminen 4-0. All the results and Points tables can be found ... here

Friday 30th May 2008

TURKISH MASTERS 2008

Last weekend Turkey held its first ever WDF Ranked event when they arranged the Turkish Masters in Ankara. The Men's event was won by Arman Ugur who defeated Emre Toros in the Final. Third places went to Eser Tekin andSadik Ozdemir. The Women's title went to Duygu Karaca with Uesim Yilmaz in second place. Losing Semi-Finalists were Asli Baris and Ilgen Sakin.

The photograph shows all the stage finalists

The Turks will be arranging a second WDF Ranked Event, The Turunc Turkish Open. This event will be held on 13-20th October in Marmaris.

NORDIC CUP 2008

Latest updates from today's play.

EUROPEAN SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008

This is a new event organised by the Finnish Darts Organisation and will be played in Helsinki, Finland 31stJuly to 2nd August. There are two classes in all events: +45 years old Singles and Pairs and +55 years old Singles and Pairs.

Info  ... here. For more details email Timo Korpela at  timo.korpela@finnmail.fi

Entries close 31st May.

NORDIC CUP 2008

The 2008 Nordic Cup started yesterday evening in Helsinki, Finland. The first evening was devoted to the Team events with Round Robin matches being played in both Men's and Women's events. The results provided the following line-up for the closing stages.

The complete details of the Round Robin Matches are ... here

The event continues today with the Singles and Pairs events.

Monday 26th May 2008

BRUNO RAES AND PATRICIA DE PUETER WIN THE BELGIAN GOLD CUP 2008

Bruno Raes, who disappeared from the international dart scene after the 1996 Embassy, won the Belgian Gold Cup title with a very close win against Harry Famaey. Bruno, for many years a regular in the national team, is only 40 years old and is now looking forward to making a return to the  international circuit. The losing semi-finalists were Stefano Gaspari and Tony Martinez.

By losing the final in the deciding leg of the last set Famaey also lost his ticket to the Europe Cup 2008.  Harry needed the win to make the team. Geert De Vos, Dirk Hespeels and Patrick Bulen reached the quarter-finals which was enough to secure their places in the team for Danmark. The team will be completed by Ronny Huybrechts.

Patricia De Peuter won the women's Gold Cup by defeating Nicole Delie in the final. These two will probably make up the Belgian Women's team for Copenhagen but this has yet to be confirmed. De Peuter's participation is uncertain which could open the door for Ann Goossens who is the reserve at the moment.

Cedric Taymans (boys), Dana Verhaegen (girls) and Lorenzo Van Hove (aspirants) were the other Gold Cup winners.

The pairs titles went to Huybrechts-Huybrechts (men), Dessein-De Becker (women) and R. Huybrechts-De Peuter (mixed).

Sunday 25th May 2008

NORWAY OPEN 2008: WINS FOR CARINA EKBERG AND WILLY VAN DER WIEL

Dutchman Willy van der Weil won the yesterday's Norway Open beating Scotland's Paul Hanvidge.  The losing Semi-Finalists were John Henderson and Garry Thompson. On his way to his maiden International Open truimph he defeated John Henderson, Stephen Bunting and Dave Chisnall.

Sweden's Carina Ekberg secured the Women's title with a win over Scotland's Louise Hepburn. Third places went to Hege Løkken (Norway) and Janni Larsen (Denmark.

Oskar Lukasiak (Sweden) won the Youth Singles beating Norway's Robin Lundemo Eidet. The losing Semi-Finalists were Thomas Kielberg and Rune Veraas Iversen, both from Norway.

Bracket sheets for Men and Women (without scores)   can be viewed ... here

Monday 19th May 2008

WELSH OPEN WINS FOR ANASTASIA AND GARY

Anastasia Dobromyslova and Gary Anderson took the titles at the Welsh Open which was played at the weekend. Ricky Evans and Kimberley Lewis won the youth events. The event was shown live on Setanta Sports and was a great success. Four more events: The BDO International Open, the BDO Gold Cup, the BDO British Classic and the BDO British Open will complete the BDO International Grand Prix. All these events can be seen live on Setanta Sports.

Brian Dawson from Barnsley registered a 9 dart leg in first round match in Welsh Open, he later lost in the 3rd round to Alan Norris.

Men's Pairs Winners- Andy Boulton & Ian White

Women's Pairs Winners- Anastasia Dobromyslova & Irina Armstrong

Complete results from the Singles events are on the links below:

Men Singles        Women Singles        Boys Singles        Girls Singles

PERSIAN OPEN 2008

The Persian Open Championships were played in Tehran last weekend with 220 men and 108 women competing from all parts of Iran. WDF President Roy Price was present at the event and was accompanied by Mr. Mohammad Hesam who is Deputy Head of the Iranian Physical Training Organisation and Head of Sports Developement in Iran. Mr Hesam explained that the Iranian government were eager to support darts for all players and were especially interested in supporting handicapped darts. It was the wish of the Iranian Government to arrange a paralympics for handicapped dart players and requested help from the WDF to achieve this goal. Roy Price assured him that although the WDF did not organise events for handicapped players at this time, he would make every effort to assist Iran with this project.

The top positions in the Singles events were as follows:

CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL OPEN 2008

Frenchman Cyril Blot captured the Men's singles title with a 5-1 win over Roy van Bilderbeek from the Netherlands. Third place was shared by John Michael from Greece and George Federico from Gibraltar.

The Women's title went to Cyprus with Loraine McCormick defeating Geraldine Boury from France by 4 legs to 2. Third places went to Donna Mabett of Cyprus and Joyce Fenech from Malta.

The Men's Pairs title went to Cyril Blot and Christiane demazure from France who beat Pete Croxford and Steve Claxton from Cyprus. Third place was shared by the  Maltese pairs Godfrey Abela/Alfred desira and Vince Busuttil/Gordon Stanmore.

The Italian pair Giada Ciofi/Veleda Gaiga won the women's title beating Loraine McCormick/Lynne Prosser from Cyprus. Third place was shared by the Cyprus pairings Ann Rose/Wendy Riman and Glynis Bowdler/Jackie Bradley.

Saturday 17th May 2008

MEDITERRANEAN CUP 2008: ITALY WIN THE MENS AND WOMENS CUPS

	The Mediterranean Cup 2008 was completed in Protaras, Cyprus today with Italy winning both the Mens and Womens overall championships.
Click on the Cyprus Logo for the final results.

Friday 16th May 2008

MEDITERRANEAN CUP 2008

	Teams from Cyprus, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, and Malta together in Protaris in Cyprus for the annual Mediterranean Cup. The event comprises singles and pairs events for men and women and a team event for the men.
Click on the Cyprus Logo for the situation after the first day's play.

Thursday 15th May 2008

NORDIC CUP 2008

The Nordic Cup is an international team event which will be played in Finland from 29th May until 1st June. The draw for all the Nordic Cup events can be found on the links below

Men Singles      Women Singles     Men Pairs      Women Pairs     Team Event

Wednesday 14th May 2008

HUNGARIAN OPEN 2008

Dutchman Mareno Michels won the 2008 Men's Singles event which was played in Budapest last weekend. The Women's event was won by Marketa Abadzievova from the Czech Republic. The brackets from the closing stages of both Men's and Women's events can be seen ... here

WELSH OPEN 2008

The draw sheets and Board Allocations are now available for the 2008 Welsh Open Singles. You can find all the details on the links below.

Men's Draw     Women's Draw     Men's Board Alloc.     Women's Board Alloc.

WALES SELECT THEIR EUROPE CUP TEAM FOR DENMARK

Gareth Holt is the new face in the Wales team selected for the WDF Europe Cup, to be held in Copenhagen between 27th and 30th of August 2008. Wales Team Managers have selected Gareth who plays his County darts for Montgomery and Radnor after his successful debut last February in the Wales Nations Cup winning team. The 31 year-old from Newtown will be joined in the four man team by Glamorgan’s Wayne Warren, BDO World Champion Mark Webster and team captain Martin Phillips who will be playing in his ninth Europe Cup event.

Current WDF World Cup Singles Champion Jan Robbins and last years’ losing finalist Julie Gore will be the duo representing Wales in the Women’s event.

Sunday 11th May 2008

NORDIC CUP TEAMS ANNOUNCED

The 2008 Nordic Cup will be played in the Hotel Tallukka, Vääksy, Finland between 29.5. and 1.6. Eight countries have entered this years event, two of them will take part in the Men's event only.

The Teams are:

Tuesday 6th May 2008

DUTCH RANKING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008

The final round of the Dutch National Ranking Championships was played last week. You can view the results from the final round and the overall standings by clicking ... here

Saturday 3rd May 2008

IRANIAN DARTS FEDERATION PROMOTES DARTS FOR THE HANDICAPPED

	Iran, one of the WDF's newest members, is making great strides in the promotion of darts for the handicapped.  The Iranian Federation recently organised an event in Tehran comprising several classes for individual  players and a team event. The event was attended by players and teams from 16 different provinces within Iran. The top positions are shown below.

A photo-gallery from the event can be seen ... here

The WDF applauds the Iranian Darts Federation for this fine initiative.

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