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Verdensmesterskabet for amatører (indstiftet 1974) er 5 gange vundet af englænderen Eric Bristow (f. 1957), i 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983 & 1984. Verdensmesterskabet for professionelle (indstiftet 1978) er også gået til Bristow 5 gange, i 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985 & 1986. Ydermere vandt Bristow World Cupturneringen i single 4 gange, i 1983, 1985, 1987, & 1989. Syv har vundet News of the World mesterskabet 2 gange, senest englænderen Mike Gregory i 1987 & 1988. Englænderen John Lowe har vundet alle fire verdensmesterskabstitler: Verdensmester i 1976 & 1980. Professionel verdensmester i 1979 & 1987. World Cup Single i 1981. News of the World i 1981. FÆRREST PILE: Scorer på 201 med 4 pile, 301 med 6 pile, 401 med 7 pile og 501 med 9 pile er set opnået adskillige gange. Det laveste antal pile for en score på 1001 er 19,præsteret af englænderen Cliff Inglis (f. 1935) i Devon11. november 1975, og af hans landsmand Jockey Wilson i Bletchley 23. marts 1989. Alan Evans (f. 1949) scorede 2001 med 52 pile i Glamorgan 3. september 1976. Tony Benson scorede 3001 Points med 73 pile i Manchester 12. juli 1986. Rekorden for Kvinder er 3001 points med 117 pile, sat af Linda Batten (f. 1954) i Enfield, London, 2. april 1986. Alan Downie fra Stornway scorede 100.001 points med 3.732 pile 21. november 1986. FLEST POINTS PÅ 24 TIMER: Mænd: 8 dartspillere fra Broken Hill Dart Club i New South Wales, Australien, scorede 1.722.249 points i løbet af 24 timer 28.-29. september 1985. Englænderen Ian Brown opnåede 496.949 points i samme tidsrum 1.-2. juli 1988. Kvinder: 744.439 points af 8 spillere i London 13.-14. oktober 1990. DK: Thomas Petersen, Max Berend, Henrik Larsen og Thomas Plum spillede dart i 24 timer i Hundige Storcenter 28.-29. juni 1991 og satte ny Danmarksrekord ved i alt at score 802.855 points. Rekorden for to personer i samme tidsrum er 722.330 points for Benny og Henning von Essen, Sønderborg, der satte rekorden 5.-6. februar 1988. DK: Den bedste dansker i 24 timer individuelt er Tony >>Fnug<< Jensen fra Skive, der 21.-22. september 1985 scorede 410.143 points. Bedste kvinde er Birgitte Quist Pedersen, der scorede 236.000 points I Skive 10.-11. november 1984. SJOVE REKORDER: Scotland's former No. 1 dart player, Jocky Wilson, tossed a 24-dart 1001 leg against American Bud Trumbower in March of 1987 at the Eastgate U.S. Marine Base in England. His scores were: 180-140-140-140-81-100-120(out). Jocky scored a fantastic 600 points in his first 12 darts and doubled out with T20-20-D20 to average 41.7 per dart, start to finish. On November 11, 1975 at the Broomfield WMC in Devon, England, international star Cliff Inglis tossed a magnificent 19-dart 1001 game, smashing all previous records to date: 160-180-140-180-121-180-40. Cliff averaged an unbelievable 52.68 points per dart despite getting lucky with his first dart, hitting a double 20 instead of the triple. All-County Welshman Leighton Rees, on December 18, 1976, finished a game of 3000 in 141 darts, counting on only the single and double bulls and closing with a double bull. Leighton converted 34 double bulls and 52 bulls while just 55 darts went astray during this epic leg. Tony Elleson, at the Now Inn Crumlin in Gwent, England, scored a perfect double start/double finish 301 game in June of 1987. While not so unusual in his feat perhaps, but after his first throw he broke a shaft retrieving his darts and literally had to sit down for five minutes and dig out the remains before finishing his game. Certainly the stoppage of play did not affect his concentration: D20-60-60-60-57-D12. On June 19, 1987 at the Fishing Boat Inn in Northumberland, shooter Tab Hunter (no, not the movie star!) recorded a brilliant 23 dart 1001 leg: 100-180-140-125-140-100-140-76. He averaged a fine 43.5 points per dart, ending the final 76 in two. In May of 1987, Duncan Swift, playing out of the Felixstowe Dock Sports and Social Club, Surrey, scored 493,470 points to capture the 24 hour solo record in May of 1987. While shooting and retrieving the darts himself, Duncan hit an incredible 123 180s, 643 140s and used a total of 18,369 darts for a fabulous 26.86 points per dart average. In April of 1988, Stephen Wagg set the 12 hour solo record for scoring double and single bulls at the Thorncliff Cricket and Social Club in Sheffield, England. Stephen registered 961 double bulls and 3,335 single bulls for a score of 131,425. He tossed a grand total of 9,714 darts for a 13.52 per dart average. An eight-hour record for scoring bulls and double bulls was set by Birmingham players George Perry and Tony Hodgkiss at The Seventh Trap Public House in December of 1987. The two, averaging 16.19 per dart, hit 1,406 double bulls and 4,247 single bulls for a total of 176,475 points, breaking the old record of 1,048 double bulls and 3,308 single bulls. In June of 1978, All-World John Lowe captured a 1001 leg in 22 darts: 140-180-140-100-140-140-125-D18. John averaged 137 per throw or a grand 45.6 per dart enroute to this memorable game. Pat Irwin of the Mitre hotel, playing in a double start/double finish 501 match, hit a 170 in (DB-60-60) and a 170 out (60-60-DB) in the same leg, in April of 1987. In a special pairs 3001 challenge match against Steve Brown and Gene Raymond, London county leaguers Reg Harding and Dave Lee slugged an 86 darter , just 11 darts short of the world record: 41- 35- 140- 125- 85- 85- 140- 180- 180- 80- 100- 100- 100- 100- 180- 55- 100- 100- 140- 140- 100- 100- 100- 100- 45- 82- 96- 32. The pair hit 3 maximums enroute to a 34.8 per dart average over the course of the challenge. Probably the most notable individual effort occurred on October 13, 1984 in the quarter-finals of the MFI World Matchplay Championships. The match featured British stars John Lowe and Keith Deller with Lowe hitting the first televised nine-dart perfect 501 game in the history of the sport. For the record he went: 180-180-141 (T17, T18, D18) and collected (eventually) a cheque for 102,000 pounds for his efforts. (Ironically, due to complex tax laws, Lowe could not pocket a penny from the jackpot until two years later, as the currency sat in a British bank waiting for final approval.) In September, 1989 Vic Cutts and Pete Hotchkins playing at the Eagle Nechells, Birmingham, England, totaled 460,740 points setting a 24-hour two-man record. The truly amazing fact of their feat is that they accomplished it on the more difficult Champion's Choice dartboard. During an exhibition at the Bell, Cox Heath, in Maidstone, Kent, England in July of 1989, Alan Glazier, one of the most colourful of professionals, put on a brilliant display of darts. He won all 13 matches highlighting the occasion with a magnificent 21-dart 1001 leg - missing the world record by three darts. His scores were: 140-135-124-140-180-120-161. The 161 out is achieved by hitting a T20, T17 and D-Bull. That's a per-dart-average of 47.67 -start to finish. Earlier that year he hit a 22-dart 1001 leg at an exhibition at St. Joseph's Club, in Chorley, Lancashire. The "Ton Machine" averaged 45.5 per dart scoring an 81-140-180-100-140-140-180-40. While qualifying for the Winmau World Masters in November, 1989, Norfolk County player Martin Golder, tossed a very notable 39.12 per dart average in four legs. He threw two 14-darters, a 12-darter and capped it off with an 11 dart game where he tossed a 41-180-180-100. In November of 1989, Tony Jones recorded 28 perfect 180 scores in just one hour and 25 minutes for a charity event in Manchester, England. During a 24-hour period in August 26-27, 1988, Paul Finch, Graham Prior and Nick Steggell scored 2,093 double bulls and 7,861 single bulls at the Eight Bells in Ewell, Surrey, England. In 1986, Allen Chaperlin and Ian Melton played 1,265 full games of 501 in 182 hours and one minute at the Eagle Tavern, Oxford, England. That's one game every 8.6 minutes and the feat took over 7-1/2 days to complete. Ya gotta love it. On March 28-29, 1986, Graham Innis, Graham Miller, Graham Parker, and Richie Davis scored 1,003,769 points in 24 hours at the Maxilla Club in London, England. During that period they hit 152 perfect 180s. An impressive 7-man superstar lineup consisting of Bob Anderson, Eric Bristow, John Lowe, Chris Johns, Martin Phillips, Alan Warriner, and Ritchie Gardner established a 15-minute fast-scoring mark of 8,806 points in a charity throw at the 1988 British Professional Championships. On this side of the Atlantic but across the continent, Craig Ishigo of Gardinia, Calif. tossed a perfect cricket leg without even realizing it. In his first shot he threw a T20, T19 and T18, followed by a T17, T16 and T15. He capped it off with a bull and doublebull. Afterwards, when his feat had been pointed out to him, he said he thought the game had gone unusually fast but hadn't really thought about it. Big Cliff Lazarenko fired his first 9-dart perfect 501 game at an exhibition at the Aberlynon Leisure Centre. Using 25-gram titanium tungsten darts, he threw two 180s and a T20, T19, D12 for the 141 out in the last match of the night. Paul Lim of San Bernadino, Calif. threw a perfect 9-dart 501 leg at the 1990 Embassy World Championships. Because he did it before the TV cameras he received L52,000 ($88,000 US) for his remarkable achievement. In the most perfect of perfect 501 games, Roy Blowies, playing at the Widgeon's Pub in Calgary in late 1989 achieved his 9-darter by doubling in on the bullseye first. He scored 161(DB-T20-T17), 180, 160(T20-T20-D20). In some very friendly games, a player is allowed to "double out" by throwing a dart into the space between the two wires comprising the numeral "11". Also known as "Splitting the eleven's" this is used to double out on a score of 1. In tournament play: |