Graeme Stoddart

Graeme Stoddart
Graeme Stoddart
Personal information
Nickname	Shark
Born	30 July 1959[1]; Newcastle, England
Home town	Newcastle Upon Tyne; England
Darts information
Playing darts since	1975
Darts	15g Copper Tungsten
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Fog on the Tyne" by Paul Gascoigne
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	1984–1994
PDC	1994–2013
BDO majors – best performances
World Masters	Last 64: 1984
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship	Last 16: 1999, 2000, 2001
World Matchplay	Last 16: 1994, 1996
World Grand Prix	Quarter-Final: 1998
UK Open	Last 32: 2006
Other tournament wins
Tournament	Years
Amsterdam Open	2003

Graeme Stoddart (born 30 July 1959 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a retired English professional darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation events. His nickname was Shark.

Career

Stoddart represented Holland in the 1984 European Cup. He came to prominence after being invited from the WDC rankings for the inaugural WDC World Darts Championship in 1994. He was drawn in Group 8, where he defeated Jocky Wilson, before being knocked out in the final group match by the eventual champion, Dennis Priestley.

He entered many majors in the early years of the WDC/PDC, eventually reaching the quarter-finals of the 1998 World Grand Prix, beating Paul Lim, and where he lost to Rod Harrington. He hit a 9-dart finish in the Swiss Open in 2000 (with a set of borrowed darts after leaving his set at home), which was the 2nd recorded in the PDC, after Ronnie Baxter had hit the first in the 1999 Antwerp Open. In 2001, history was created: it was the first year a lady, Gayl King from Canada, entered the WC; she lost 1–3 against Stoddart.

His last appearance at a PDC event was at a Players Championship event in Scotland in 2009. Stoddart retired from the PDC in 2013 due to health reasons.

World Championship results

PDC

1994: Last 24 Group (beat Jocky Wilson 3–1 & lost to Dennis Priestley 0–3)
1995: Last 24 Group (lost to Peter Evison 2–3 & lost to Cliff Lazarenko 2–3)
1996: Last 24 Group (lost to Alan Warriner-Little 2–3 & lost to Steve Brown 2–3)
1997: Last 24 Group (lost to Alan Warriner-Little 2–3 & beat Larry Butler 3–1)
1998: Last 24 Group (lost to Keith Deller 1–3 & beat Mick Manning 3–0)
1999: 2nd Round (lost to Peter Manley 0–3)
2000: 2nd Round (lost to Phil Taylor 0–3)
2001: 2nd Round (lost to Rod Harrington 0–3)

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gollark: You are going to have problems isolating for a year, especially if basically nobody else is.

gollark: It's worrying to me that the UK is seemingly doing quite badly, since I live there.

References

https://www.mastercaller.com/players/graeme-stoddart

External links

Player profile on Graeme Stoddart from Dartsdatabase

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