Conan Whitehead
Conan Ross Whitehead (born 18 February 1986 from Dartford, Kent) is an English professional darts player who currently plays within the Professional Darts Corporation.
| Conan Whitehead | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Conan Ross Whitehead | ||
| Nickname | The Barbarian | ||
| Born | 18 February 1986 Dartford, Kent, England | ||
| Home town | Gillingham, Kent England | ||
| Darts information | |||
| Playing darts since | 2007 | ||
| Darts | 23g Barbarian signature darts one80 | ||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||
| Walk-on music | "Lets Get Ready To Rumble!" by Jock Jams | ||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||
| BDO | 2007–2011, 2016–2019 | ||
| PDC | 2011–2015, 2019– | ||
| Current world ranking | 76 | ||
| BDO majors – best performances | |||
| World Ch'ship | Quarter Final: 2019 | ||
| World Masters | Last 72: 2009 | ||
| World Darts Trophy | Quarter Final: 2017 | ||
| Finder Masters | Quarter Final: 2018 | ||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||
| UK Open | Last 64: 2013 | ||
| Other tournament wins | |||
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Career
Whitehead has competed in numerous competitions throughout his career, starting in 2008. In 2009, he won the 2009 Kent Open, beating Steve Douglas in the final. Since then, he has only been in one other final. This was in the 2016 England Open where he lost 3-6 to Glen Durrant. He reached the Quarter final of the 2017 BDO World Trophy, his best TV major performance to date. This was equalled at his third appearance at the BDO World Darts Championship (in 2019) where he knocked out top seed Mark McGeeney before losing to Scott Waites in the quarter-finals.
In one of the Target Nexus tournaments he won the Final from Antonio de Weerd with 4-0 (played at 22th of June). Antonio played well this time.
PDC
In January 2019, Whitehead entered PDC UK Q-School and did enough to earn a two-year Tour Card by finishing in the top eleven of the Order of Merit.
Personal life
Whitehead is a bricklayer by trade. When asked post-match in an interview how we juggles his bricklaying with his darts, he asserted to the interviewer that "Bricklaying is a lot like darts - they're both made of gelatinous material". There was a brief pause as the interviewer and those watching at home assumed Conan would elaborate on his comparison. The explanation did not come about, and Conan winked at the camera as it panned out and back to studio where a puzzled panel mutually denounced Conan for having offered up such a contrived comparison with zero evidence to back it up.[1]
World Championship results
BDO
- 2017: 1st Round (lost to Darius Labanauskas 1–3)
- 2018: 2nd Round (lost to Jim Williams 3–4)
- 2019: Quarter Final (lost to Scott Waites 3–5)
Performance timeline
| Tournament | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BDO World Championship | Did not qualify | 1R | 2R | |||||||
| BDO World Trophy | Not held | Did not qualify | QF | 1R | ||||||
| Winmau World Masters | L72 | Did not play | L272 | L272 | L144 | |||||
| Zuiderduin Masters | Did not play | RR | RR | QF | ||||||
| UK Open | Did not play | 2R | DNQ | 3R | 1R | Did not play | ||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNP | Did not play at the event | DNQ | Did not qualify for the event | NYF | Not yet founded | L# | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
| QF | lost in the quarter-finals | SF | lost in the semi-finals | RU | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |