Friday 31st March 2006

NEW VENUE FOR 2006 BDO BRITISH OPEN AND 2006 WINMAU WORLD MASTERS

The 2006 BDO BRITISH OPEN and 2006 WINMAU WORLD MASTERS will be played at LEISURE WORLD, Bridlington while The Spa Royal Hall is undergoing a multi-million pound refurbishment programme in readiness for 2007.

The BDO British Open will be played in its ‘temporary home’ from Friday, September 15^th  to  Sunday, September 17^th, and for the first time ever the Singles will be broadcast live by Eurosport as part of a new broadcasting contract for Eurosport to screen BDO/WDF Open events throughout the year.

The Winmau World Masters will be played from Friday, October 13^th to Sunday, October 15^th, with the usual excellent TV coverage on BBC-1’s ‘Grandstand’ and BBC-2 ‘Sunday Grandstand’ over the weekend of October 14^th and 15^th.

The new venue is situated on Bridlington Promenade within walking distance of The Spa and has a whole range of facilities for family enjoyment and entertainment.

“The refurbishment work at The Spa Royal Hall will greatly improve the excellent facilities, but unfortunately won’t be ready in time for either the 2006 BDO British Open or the 2006 Winmau World Masters”, says Olly Croft.

“However, Bridlington has now become the home of both major tournaments and we didn’t want to go anywhere else. East Riding Council have always been welcoming to our darts and the players, officials and fans, and I thank them most sincerely for providing such an excellent temporary venue at Leisure World of the biggest major tournaments on the BDO calendar. And there is a real bonus, because both will be televised to huge audiences.”

The BD British Open is firmly established as one of the most popular events - for both players and spectators - on the British Darts Organisation calendar.

2006 is the 32^nd staging of the BDO British Open, which made its successful Bridlington debut in 2003. It now returns for the 4^th successive year.

The thirty-third Winmau World Masters is the final leg of the BDO’s prestigious Grand Slam title of televised majors, and will be staged for the fifth successive year in Bridlington. The oldest established major event in World Darts (first staged in 1974) it is unique for having four separate finals: Men, Women, Boys and Girls Masters. 

As always, it is expected to attract hundreds of top players from over thirty countries.

Tuesday 28th March 2006

PRESS RELEASE: BULLIT JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL DART LEAGUE 2006

BULLIT MAIN SPONSOR FOR JUNIOR IDL

Bullit Energy Drink is the new main sponsor for the youth tournament of the International Darts League. This year the Grand Slam Darts tournament has a youth event for the first time in history. Last year there was a pilot with 8 Dutch youngsters during the Bavaria World Darts Trophy, which resulted in this years official youth tournaments at the IDL and Bavaria WDT. The first edition of the Bullit Junior IDL will be an International event. Four Dutch talents will take up against four foreign youngsters.

The Bullit Junior IDL will be held during the senior IDL, only the youth event starts on Monday the 8th of May instead of Saturday the 6th, the date that the senior IDL will start. There will be played in a knock-out system. All of the games will be played on the big stage at the Triavium in Nijmegen. This way the youth players can experience playing on a big stage in front of a big crowd. Also the audience can meet the future stars of the game.

The last years Dutch Darts has had a lot of talents who now belong to the best senior players in the World. Jelle Klaasen, one of the products of Dutch Darts, won the Lakeside World Championship aged 21 this year. Also Niels de Ruiter, Mareno Michels, Michael van Gerwen and Jonny Nijs belong to the best players in the World. They will be playing in the senior tournament of the IDL 2006.

The youth players who will participate in the Bullit Junior IDL are:

• Jan Dekker, Netherlands
• Sven van Dun, Netherlands
• Pieter Collijn, Netherlands
• Toon Greebe, Netherlands
• Oskar Lukasiak, Sweden
• Jason Cullen, Rep. Of Ireland
• Ross Smith, England
• Kevin Münch, Germany

The program for the Bullit Junior IDL is as follows:

1st Round

Monday 8 May              20.00  A         Sven van Dun (Ned)   -   Kevin Münch (Ger)

Tuesday 9 May            21.00  B         Toon Greebe (Ned)    -   Ross Smith (Eng)

Wednesday 10 May    20.00  C        Jan Dekker (Ned)        -   Jason Cullen (Ire)

Thursday 11 May         20.00  D        Pieter Collijn (Ned)     -   Oskar Lukasiak (Swe)

Semi Finals

Friday 12 May               21.00  E        Winner A  -  Winner B

Saturday 13 May          20.00  F        Winner C  -  Winner D

Final

Sunday 14 May            20.00  G        Winner E -  Winner F

Monday 27th March 2006

DUTCH OPEN YOUTH 2006

The 2006 Dutch Open Youth was held in the Pandahallen in Loosdrecht at the weekend. The event attracted over 400 players divided into three categories, Girls, Recruits, and Juniors. The complete results from the closing stages can be seen below.

JUNIOR:  LAST 16

Thursday 23rd March 2006

LIVE INTERNATIONAL TELEVISED DARTS: BDO BRITISH INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006

SATURDAY, APRIL 8^TH & SUNDAY, APRIL 9^TH   RHYDYCAR LEISURE CENTRE, MERTHYR TYDFIL

The 2006 BDO BRITISH INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, the fiercely competitive annual clash between the home team rivals of England (Captained by MARTIN ADAMS), Wales (Captained by MARTIN PHILLIPS) and Scotland (Captained by MIKE VEITCH) will be televised LIVE on Eurosport 2 over the weekend of April 8^th and 9^th.

It is the latest leg of the exclusive 2006 Eurosport series of WDF/BDO tournaments, promoted by Dutch businessman Rob van Toor, who is also the manager of  Dutch International Karin Krappen, the current  Dutch No.1. and WDF  Women’s World No.2.

England Men have been triumphant for five consecutive years, so there will be an extra edge to the combative attitudes of the host nation Wales, and the ‘old enemy’ Scotland – both of whom will be keen to end the England run.

Coverage starts on Saturday (8^th)  with WALES v SCOTLAND, which will be screened LIVE  from 17.00 hrs CET to 19.30 hrs CET.

On Sunday (9^th) it is the always keenly anticipated battle between SCOTLAND v ENGLAND  LIVE from 13.30 hrs CET to 15.00 hrs CET.

The climax of the weekend will be ENGLAND v WALES, with the host nation closing the weekend of British Internationals from 17.00 CET to 19.30 hrs CET.

Players competing in the British Internationals include England’s MARTIN ATKINS, winner of the recent FINNISH OPEN, Eurosport’s opening WDF tournament of 2006.  Scotland’s GARY ANDERSON is the man currently in great form. He recently won the Isle Of Man Open and had the best overall single dart average of 45.62 in the Six Nations Cup.  Another recent winner is WAYNE DAVIES of Wales, who won the recent BDO Torremolinos Open.

“This is great news for WDF/BDO darts because the British Internationals have not been seen on TV for a very long time”, says Olly Croft, Secretary General of the WDF. “Needless to say, we are delighted that Eurosport is featuring this wonderful weekend of Internationals which always produces great games and electrifying excitement.  National pride is at stake and as well as making great viewing, the televising of the 2006 BDO British International Championships is a terrific bonus for our international teams”.

The Eurosport 2 coverage will feature player interviews and the closing ceremonies.

Monday 20th March 2006

EVENT CALENDAR UPDATES

The WDF Calendar has been updated today with two Australian events, the Australian Grand Masters and the CCLC Australian Classic. Full details of both events are available for download.

Sunday 19th March 2006

ANASTASIA DOBROMYSLOVA AND MERVYN KING WIN THE IDPA SPRING CLASSIC

The International Dartplayers Association held their annual Spring Classic event at Hengar Manor, Cornwall at the weekend. Results from the final stages can be seen below.

Men: Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

Final

Women: Semi-Finals

Final

Tuesday 14th March 2006

GARY ANDERSON FIRST SCOT EVER TO TOP THE BDO MEN'S TABLE

All the major ranking and invitation tables are now updated. It is interesting to note that Scotland's Gary Anderson now heads the BDO Invitation Table after his win in the Isle of Man at the weekend. As far as we are aware it is the first time a Scot has ever held the Nr.1 spot in the BDO Men's Table.

RESULTS FROM THE ISLE OF MAN

Saturday 11th March 2006

FINNISH OPEN 2006:  KARIN KRAPPEN AND MARTIN ATKINS TAKE THE TITLES

Karin Krappen won the Women`s Singles title at the Finnish Open with a comfortable 4-0 win over Sweden`s Carina Ekberg. In the Men`s event England`s Martin Atkins won his first major title with an impressive 6-2 win over current World Pro Champion Jelle Klaasen.

RESULTS

Friday 9th March 2006

ISLE OF MAN OPEN / FINNISH OPEN

This weekend sees two major events in the darts calendar, the BDO ranked Isle of Man Open and the WDF / BDO ranked Finland Open. The majority of the top British players have, naturally enough chosen the Isle of Man Open, but several, including John "Boy" Walton, Shaun Greatbatch, Martin Atkins, Tony Martin, and Paul Hogan have chosen to travel to Tampere. Here they will meet the likes of World Pro Champion Jelle Klaasen, Vincent van der Voort, Co Stompe, Michael van Gerwen, and the latest Scandinavian star Sweden's Göran Klemme. It should not be forgotten that Finland will also well represented by Jarkko Komula, Marko Kantele, Marko Pusa, Kim Viljanen, and Ulf Ceder. The Finland Open will be covered by Eurosport as a part of a pilot project of 8 or 9 WDF Open events which will be screened during the course of this year. More details of the remaining events will be published next week. British Eurosport will be transmitting 3 hours of live darts from Tampere on Saturday evening plus one hour of highlights later. European Eurosport2 will transmit one hour live and one hour of recorded highlights. Streaming video is not yet available but is expected to be online for the next event.

We shall be at the Finland Open and expect to be providing detailed reports during the course of Saturday's Singles events.

Transmission times:

BRITISH EUROSPORT 2   16.00 - 17.00 LIVE  then recorded highlights 21.00 - 22.00

BRITISH EUROSPORT       17.00 - 19.00 LIVE

Note: BRITISH EUROSPORT times are GMT. EUROPEAN EUROSPORT times are CET

EUROSPORT viewers in mainland Europe can view as follows:

EUROSPORT 2  17.00 - 18.00 LIVE then recorded highlights 22.00 - 23.00

Thursday 2nd March 2006

RUSSIAN PENTATHLON 2006

The first Russian Pentathlon was held last weekend at Ekaterinnburg in Russia.

Results can be found.....here

Thursday 2nd March 2006

FINLAND OPEN 2006 SEEDING

The Finnish Darts Organisation has announced the seeding for the Men's and Women's Singles which will be played on Saturday 11th March.

Eurosport viewers in the UK can watch the final stages live at the following times:

BRITISH EUROSPORT 2   16.00 - 17.00 LIVE  then recorded highlights 21.00 - 22.00

BRITISH EUROSPORT       17.00 - 19.00 LIVE

Note: British Eurosport times are GMT. European Eurosport times are CET

Eurosport viewers in mainland Europe can view as follows:

EUROSPORT 2  17.00 - 18.00 LIVE then recorded highlights 22.00 - 23.00

Wednesday 1st March 2006

JARKKO KOMULA WINS FINLAND PENTATHLON 2006

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