2016 BDO World Darts Championship
The 2016 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship is the 39th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 31st staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green.
Lakeside World Darts Championship | |||
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Tournament information | |||
Dates | 2–10 January 2016 | ||
Venue | Lakeside Country Club | ||
Location | Frimley Green, Surrey | ||
Country | England, United Kingdom | ||
Organisation(s) | BDO | ||
Format | Sets | ||
Prize fund | £339,000 (total) | ||
Winner's share | £100,000 (men) £12,000 (women) £5,000 (youth) | ||
High checkout | 161 ![]() ![]() 160 ![]() | ||
Champion(s) | |||
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The defending men's champion was Scott Mitchell, who won his first world title in 2015, but lost in the Quarter-finals to Richard Veenstra. 2013 world champion Scott Waites won the title by defeating Jeff Smith 7-1 in the final.
Lisa Ashton was the defending women's champion, having won the previous two editions, but lost to Trina Gulliver in the Quarter-finals. Gulliver then went on to win her 10th world championship title after defeating Deta Hedman 3-2 in the final.
Format and qualifiers
Men's
On 27 November 2015, Hull qualifier Vladimir Andersen was removed from the field after being suspended by the Danish Darts Union and was replaced by Sam Hewson, the player next in line according to the rankings.[1]
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17–24 in BDO Rankings (First Round Qualifiers)
25–27 in BDO Rankings (Preliminary Round Qualifiers)
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Standby Player (Preliminary Round Qualifier)
2015 Semi-Finalist not in top 28 (Preliminary Round Qualifier)
Hull Qualifiers (Preliminary Round Qualifiers)
WDF Regional Qualifiers (Preliminary Round Qualifiers)
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Preliminary Round
All matches are the best of 5 sets.
Av. | Player | Score | Player | Av. |
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92.64 | Seigo Asada ![]() |
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83.70 |
80.79 | Rob Modra ![]() |
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90.06 |
80.58 | Peter Sajwani ![]() |
3–2 | ![]() |
74.01 |
85.17 | David Cameron ![]() |
0–3 | ![]() |
84.99 |
81.90 | Kostas Pantelidis ![]() |
3–2 | ![]() |
79.71 |
91.20 | Craig Caldwell ![]() |
3–1 | ![]() |
89.01 |
83.55 | Larry Butler ![]() |
3–2 | ![]() |
78.45 |
81.81 | Matthew Medhurst ![]() |
0–3 | ![]() |
91.59 |
Last 32
First Round (best of 5 sets) 2–5 January | Second Round (best of 7 sets) 6–7 January | Quarter-Finals (best of 9 sets) 8 January | Semi-Finals (best of 11 sets) 9 January | Final (best of 13 sets) 10 January | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Women's
The televised stages feature 16 players. The top 8 players in the BDO rankings over the 2014/15 season are seeded for the tournament.
Top 8
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Other qualifiers
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Hull qualifiers
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Bracket
Trina Gulliver won her tenth world title, while Deta Hedman lost her third final.[2]
First Round (best of 3 sets) 2–6 January | Quarter-Finals (best of 3 sets) 7 January | Semi-Finals (best of 3 sets) 8 January | Final (best of 5 sets) 9 January | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Youth
For the second time a youth championship is held. Over 64 players played down to the final in October 2015. The final was played on 7 January between Republic of Ireland player Jordan Boyce and England's Joshua Richardson in a best of five sets match.[3] Richardson won the title with the score being 3–2 in sets.[4]
TV coverage
As with the 2015 BDO World Darts Championship the rights for the 2016 Championships were shared between BBC Sport and BT Sport, BBC coverage was presented by Colin Murray with Bobby George with Rob Walker as the roving reporter. BT Sport coverage was presented by Ray Stubbs alongside current BDO players Tony O'Shea, Scott Mitchell and Ted Hankey with Reshmin Chowdhury replacing Helen Skelton as roving reporter. Commentary for both broadcasters was provided by John Rawling, Vassos Alexander, George Riley and Tony Green.
References
- "Vladimir Andersen Out of Lakeside - Sam Hewson In". BDO. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- "Trina Gulliver takes 10th BDO world title with victory over Deta Hedman". theguardian.com. 9 January 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- "Jordan Boyce is Lakeside bound after reaching World Youth final". donegalsporthub.com. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- "Rushden's Richardson crowned BDO World Youth champion". northantstelegraph.co.uk. 7 January 2016. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
External links
- Schedule of matches at lakesideworlddarts.co.uk
- BDOdarts.com
- BBC.co.uk