Andree Welge

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Andree Welge
Personal information
NicknameThe Hitman
Born (1972-05-06) 6 May 1972 (age 52)
Bremen, Germany
Home townBremen, Germany
Darts information
Playing darts since1990
Darts24 Gram Mission Darts
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music"Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO 1992–2006
PDC 2006–2018
WDF 2022-
WDF major events – best performances
World Ch'ship Last 32: 2002
World Masters Last 32: 1998
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship Last 64: 2006, 2010, 2011
European Ch'ship Last 16: 2012
Other tournament wins
GDC Ramada Hotel Koln 2008, 2008
German Gold Cup 1999
Germany National Championships 2008
PDC World Germany Qualifying Event 2012, 2013
Spring Cup 2008

Andree Welge (born 6 May 1972) is a German professional darts player who competed in events of the World Darts Federation (WDF).

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Career

Welge made his World Championship debut in the 2002 BDO World Darts Championship where he lost in the first round 3–2 to Eric Clarys. He made his PDC debut in the 2006 PDC World Darts Championship, where he was defeated 3–0 by Alan Warriner-Little in the first round. Four years later, he qualified for the 2010 PDC World Darts Championship, but was beaten 3–0 by Mark Dudbridge in the first round. In the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship he was close to beating Colin Lloyd in the first round, having three matchdarts, but ultimately lost 3–2.

In June 2012, he earned a place in the European Tour Event 2 in Berlin by defeating Andreas Krockel and Matheus Ziolkowski in the Home Nation Qualifier. [1] Welge played Paul Nicholson in the first round and lost 3–6. [2] He again came through the Home Nation Qualifier to reach the fourth European Tour Event and played Mark Webster in the first round in Stuttgart, Germany. [3] There he beat the former world champion 6–4, despite Webster hitting a nine-dart finish in the opening leg and leading 4–2. [4] Welge continued his run with a 6–4 win over Brendan Dolan in round two, [5] to set up a last 16 encounter with Raymond van Barneveld, which he lost 2–6. [6] In a copy of this, two weeks later at the European Championship he beat Webster 6–4 in the first round and once again faced Dolan in round two. [7] However, this time he was beaten 5–10. [8]

Welge won the Bild Superdarter, the biggest darts event ever held in Germany with thousands of players competing in best of three leg matches. He beat Tomas Seyler in the final to win the €100,000 first prize and his place in the 2013 World Championship. [9] Welge played Leung Chen Nam of Hong Kong in the preliminary round and lost 1–4 as he hit just 10% of his doubles, with an average of 76.70. [10]

Welge entered 2013 ranked world number 74, outside of the top 64 who retain their places on the PDC tour. [11] Therefore, he played in the Q School in an attempt to win a tour card for 2013 and 2014 and succeeded on the third day, defeating 2008 World Championship finalist Kirk Shepherd 6–3 in his final match. [12] He played in his second World Cup of Darts in February with Jyhan Artut and they qualified from Group F with 5–3 wins over Finland and the United States. [13] The home nation then saw off Poland 5–2 and then played the Finnish duo of Jani Haavisto and Jarkko Komula in the quarter-finals. [14] Artut beat Haavisto, but Welge lost to Komula 4–2 meaning that a doubles match was required to settle the tie. Germany came from 3–1 down to level at 3–3 but lost the deciding leg to exit the tournament. [15]

Welge qualified for the 2014 World Championship by beating Maik Langendorf 10–7 in the final of the German Qualifier, but lost 4–1 to Julio Barbero in the preliminary round. [16] [17] Welge and Artut were beaten 5–3 by South Africa in the first round of the World Cup of Darts. [18] Welge qualified for the German Darts Masters but lost 6–1 to Jani Haavisto in the opening round and was knocked out in the semi-finals of the World Championship Qualifier 8–4 by Sascha Stein. [19] [20]

In 2015, Welge attempted to qualify for four European Tour events and was successful at the German Darts Masters, but lost 6–2 to Jamie Bain in the opening round. [21] The following year he qualified for the Dutch Darts Masters and European Darts Matchplay and was eliminated at the first round stage of both. [22]

World Championship results

BDO

PDC

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