2015 BDO World Darts Championship
Tournament name2015 BDO World Darts Championship
Dates3–11 January 2015
VenueLakeside Country Club
LocationFrimley Green, Surrey
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
OrganisationBDO
FormatSets
Prize fund£339,000 (total)
Winners share£100,000 (men)
£12,000 (women)
£5,000 (youth)
High checkout167 Darius Labanauskas
WinnerScott Mitchell (men)
Lisa Ashton (women)
Colin Roelofs (youth)
Prev2014
Next2016

The 2015 BDO World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2015 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship) was the 38th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 30th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. 2014 BDO champion Stephen Bunting did not defend his title, as he switched to the rival PDC organisation at the start of the season. Scott Mitchell beat Martin Adams 7–6 in the final for his first world title.

For the first time since 1992 no player from the Netherlands reached the last 16.

Format and qualifiers

Men's

Top 16
  1. James Wilson (first round)
  2. Alan Norris (second round)
  3. Martin Adams (runner-up)
  4. Scott Mitchell (winner)
  5. Martin Phillips (first round)
  6. Scott Waites (second round)
  7. Glen Durrant (semi-final)
  8. Wesley Harms (first round)
  9. Gary Robson (second round)
  10. Jamie Hughes (second round)
  11. Ross Montgomery (quarter-final)
  12. Jeffrey de Graaf (first round)
  13. Remco van Eijden (first round)
  14. Rick Hofstra (first round)
  15. Darryl Fitton (quarter-final)
  16. Robbie Green (quarter-final)

17-28 in BDO Rankings

  1. Madars Razma (second round)
  2. Jan Dekker (first round)
  3. Darius Labanauskas (first round)
  4. Geert De Vos (second round)
  5. Pip Blackwell (first round)
  6. Tony O'Shea (first round)
  7. Paul Jennings (first round)
  8. Sam Hewson (first round)
  9. Paul Coughlin (preliminary round)
  10. Sam Head (preliminary round)
  11. Brian Dawson (quarter-final)
  12. Michel van der Horst (first round)
Hull qualifiers
  1. Rhys Hayden (preliminary round)
  2. Daniel Larsson (first round)
  3. Cedric Waegemans (first round)
  4. Jeff Smith (semi-final)
WDF regional qualifiers
  1. Eddy Sims (preliminary round)
  2. Peter Sajwani (second round)
  3. David Cameron (preliminary round)
  4. Karel Sedláček (first round)
  5. Mike Day (preliminary round)
  6. Jim Widmayer (second round)
  7. Willem Mandigers (preliminary round)
  8. Seigo Asada (preliminary round)

Women's

The televised stages feature 16 players. The top 8 players in the BDO rankings over the 2013/14 season are seeded for the tournament.[1][2]

Top 8

  1. Deta Hedman (first round)
  2. Anastasia Dobromyslova (semi-final)
  3. Aileen de Graaf (quarter-finals)
  4. Lorraine Winstanley (first round)
  5. Rachel Brooks (quarter-finals)
  6. Fallon Sherrock (runner-up)
  7. Zoe Jones (quarter-finals)
  8. Trina Gulliver (quarter-finals)

Other qualifiers

  1. Lisa Ashton (winner)
  2. Sharon Prins (semi-final)
  3. Irina Armstrong (first round)
  4. Casey Gallagher (first round)
  5. Anneke Kuijten (first round)
  6. Paula Jacklin (first round)

Hull qualifiers

  1. Maria Mason (first round)
  2. Sarah Brent (first round)

Youth

For the first time a youth tournament was played. The final stages at Lakeside though just consisted of a best of five sets final between Harry Ward and Colin Roelofs. Over 64 players have played down to the final in October 2014.[3] Roelofs won the title, 3–0 in sets.

Prize money

The total prize money was £339,000.[4] Additionally there was a £52,000 prize for a nine dart finish.[5]

PositionMenWomenYouth
Champion£100,000£12,000£5,000
Runner-up£35,000£5,000£2,000
Semi-finalists£15,000£2,000£1,000
Quarter-finalists:£6,500£1,000£250
Last 16£4,500£500n/a
1st round losers£3,250n/an/a
Preliminary round losers£2,000n/an/a
Highest Checkout£5,000n/an/a
Total£300,000£29,000£10,000

Representation from different countries

This table shows the number of players in the Men's World Championship, the total number including Preliminary round.

Number of players by country*

ENG
NED
LAT
USA
AUS
BEL
CAN
CZE
NZL
SCO
LIT
WAL
SWE
JPN		Total
Final200000000000002
Semis300000100000004
Quarters600000100100008
Round 210011011001001016
Round 115611021101112032
Prelim.3201112111002116
Total17711122112112140

* In darts, as in many other sports, some non-sovereign sub-national entities of the United Kingdom are treated as separate countries for sport governance purposes.

Draw

The draw was held on 12 October 2014.[6]

Men

Preliminary round

To be played from 3–5 January. All matches are the best of 5 sets.

Av.PlayerScorePlayerAv.
73.62Peter Sajwani (Q)3–0Sam Head69.48
82.44David Cameron (Q)2–3Michel van der Horst82.08
71.97Eddy Sims (Q)1–3Cedric Waegemans (Q)75.39
75.36Seigo Asada (Q)1–3Brian Dawson84.90
82.74Karel Sedláček (Q)3–2Paul Coughlin75.72
84.51Mike Day (Q)0–3Jeff Smith (Q)86.10
76.14Jim Widmayer (Q)3–2Rhys Hayden (Q)71.28
80.04Willem Mandigers (Q)1–3Daniel Larsson (Q)80.67

Women

In a repeat of last year's final Lisa Ashton beat Deta Hedman in the first round. She defended her title by winning the final 3–1 over Fallon Sherrock and became the tournament's oldest winner with 44 years of age. Also in the final, Fallon Sherrock set a competition record by throwing six 180s in a match and 13 180s in the tournament.[7]

Media coverage

Following exclusive coverage on the BBC in 2014, BBC & BT Sport shared broadcasting duties of the 2015 edition for the first time. The BBC had previously shared coverage of the tournament with ESPN from 2012 to 2013. The BBC had exclusive live coverage of every afternoon session, the first men's semi final and the women's final, while BT had exclusive coverage of every evening session and the second men's semi final, with both broadcasters sharing coverage of the final. In addition, the BBC broadcast late night highlights.

The BBC live coverage was hosted by Colin Murray alongside Bobby George; Rob Walker was a reporter and host the late night highlights show. Ray Stubbs returned to the host for BT Sport, having previously hosted BBC coverage between 2001 and 2009 and ESPN coverage between 2012 and 2013, with Ted Hankey alongside him, while Helen Skelton was the BT Sport reporter. Commentary was provided by Tony Green, Vassos Alexander, John Rawling, Jim Proudfoot and George Riley.

References

  1. ^ "Women event seeding". Darts Database. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Women Hull qualifiers". Darts Database. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Lakeside World Pro Youth - Singles 07/10/2014". dartsforwindows. Archived from the original on 2015-01-07. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Prize Money for Lakeside 2015". Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
  5. ^ "BETFRED 9 DART DEAL FOR LAKESIDE". Archived from the original on 2015-01-03. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
  6. ^ "BDODarts.com". www.bdodarts.com
  7. ^ "Womens World Championship Records". Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.