Colin Osborne

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Colin Osborne
Personal information
Nickname"Ozzy"
Born (1975-06-19) 19 June 1975 (age 49)
Middlesbrough, England
Home town Derby, England
Darts information
Playing darts since1989
Darts22g Unicorn Contender Gold Colin Osborne
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music"Unbelievable" by EMF
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC 2005–2024
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship Quarter Final: 2007
World Matchplay Last 16: 2008
World Grand Prix Last 16: 2008, 2010, 2012
UK Open Runner Up: 2009
Grand Slam Last 16: 2010
European Ch'ship Last 16: 2009
Ch'ship League Winner (1): 2009
Desert Classic Last 16: 2007
US Open/WSoD Last 16: 2008
PC Finals Semi Final: 2010
Other tournament wins
Sheppey Darts Classic 2006
Sportsdale.com Xmas Open 2009
Phase two MODUS
Online darts League 2		 2021
Phase one MODUS Online darts League 4 2022

Players Championships

Players Championship (BAR) 2009
Players Championship (GER) 2011
Players Championship (KIR) 2008
Players Championship (SCO) 2009

UK Open Regionals/Qualifiers

Regional Final (NEE) 2008
Other achievements
9 Dart Finish PDPA Players Ch'ship Hayling Island 2006
2007 Makes breakthrough into PDC top 10

Colin Osborne (born 19 June 1975) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. In 2009, he won the Championship League and reached the final of the UK Open.

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Darts career

Osborne has won two PDC Pro Tour events and he also managed to hit two perfect nine-dart finishes in 2005. The first one of these came in the Players Championship on the Isle of Wight and a second one followed at the non-televised qualifying rounds for the 2005 World Matchplay.

On his World Championship debut in 2007, Osborne reached the quarter-finals where he was beaten 5–4 by Andy Jenkins.

This great performance was followed by an even better one at the 2007 UK Open, where he beat Michael van Gerwen and Mervyn King as he reached the semi-final only to be beaten 11–10 in a thriller against Vincent van der Voort. He followed this success with victory against James Wade in Las Vegas, only to lose to Peter Manley in the second round.

Osborne suffered a surprising first round exit in the 2008 World Championship, losing 3–1 to Dutchman Erwin Extercatte. In the 2008 World Matchplay, he beat King in the first round, but then lost in the next round to Phil Taylor. Osborne was 10–0 down before finally winning a leg, eventually losing 13–5 with Taylor averaging 109.

In the 2009 PDC World Championship, Osborne beat South Africa's Charles Losper 3–0 in the first round, before losing 4–1 to van der Voort in the second round.

2009 was a breakthrough year for Osborne, as he reached his first major final in the 2009 UK Open. Having beaten Raymond van Barneveld, Jamie Caven and Kevin Painter in the earlier rounds, he lost 11–6 to Taylor in the final. He also won the 2009 Championship League Darts, defeating Taylor 6–4 in the final, but a disappointing year in the other majors was compounded with a first-round loss to Simon Whitlock in the 2010 World Championship, a match that was dubbed "The Battle of the Wizards" due to both players being nicknamed 'The Wizard'.

In 2010, Osborne reached the semi-finals of the Players Championship Finals before losing to King. At the Grand Slam of Darts, Osborne lost his opening group match to Robert Thornton before beating Whitlock and Dave Chisnall to qualify for the knockout stages. He lost 10–3 to Gary Anderson in the last 16. He then reached the third round of the 2011 World Championship, and was 3–2 up against van Barneveld before losing 4–3.

Nickname

Between 2005 and 2010, Osborne was nicknamed The Wizard, a reference to The Wizard of Oz . He has long been known on the circuit, most notably by commentator Sid Waddell as Ozzy, a reference to both The Wizard of Oz and to rock singer Ozzy Osbourne. Due to the latter, he used the song "Paranoid" by Ozzy's band Black Sabbath as his walk-on. In 2011, he officially changed his nickname to 'Ozzy', following the increasing prominence of Simon Whitlock, who is also nicknamed 'The Wizard'. [1]

Outside darts

Osborne is a former representative of the English table tennis team. [2] He is also a former yo-yo champion and enjoys golf and snooker.

Osborne was born in Middlesbrough, but now lives in Derby with his wife Sarah. [3] The couple have two sons, Colin Jr. (born 2003) and Alfie (born 2006). For about 18 months, Colin and Sarah were the landlords of the Greyhound pub, Village Street. [4]

2020-now

From March 2020 until 2023 he didn't compete in any darts event. In 2023, he took part in the MODUS Super Series.

World Championship performances

PDC

PDC major finals: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
UK Open (0–1)
Championship League Darts (1–0)
OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponent in the finalScore [N 1]
Runner-up1. 2009 UK Open Flag of England.svg Phil Taylor 6–11 (l)
Winner1. 2009 Championship League Darts Flag of England.svg Phil Taylor 6–4 (l)
  1. ↑ (l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets.

Performance timeline

Tournament2005200620072008200920102011201220132014
PDC World Championship DNQ QF 1R 2R 1R 3R 1R 2R 1R
UK Open QF 3R SF 4R F 4R 5R 4R 2R DNQ
World Matchplay 1R DNQ 1R 2R 1R 1R 1R 1R DNQ
World Grand Prix DNQ 1R 2R 1R 2R DNQ 2R DNQ
European Championship Not held 1R 2R 1R Did not qualify
Grand Slam of Darts Not heldDNQ RR 2R Did not qualify
Players Championship Finals Not held 1R SF 2R 1R 1R DNQ
Las Vegas Desert Classic DNQ 2R DNQ 1R Not held
Championship League Darts Not held RR W RR RR RR RR NH
US Open/WSoD NHDNQ 1R 5R Not held
Performance Table Legend
WWon the tournamentFFinalistSFSemifinalistQFQuarterfinalist#R
RR
Prel.		Lost in # round
Round-robin
Preliminary round		DQDisqualified
DNQDid not qualifyDNPDid not participateWDWithdrewNHTournament not heldNYFNot yet founded

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References

  1. ↑ Osborne Adopts New Nickname Archived 16 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine PDC.tv
  2. ↑ "Colin Osbourne". Global Darts. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  3. ↑ Steel, Adam (4 December 2015). "World Darts Championship frustration for Middlesbrough's Colin Osborne". Teesside Live. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  4. ↑ [World Darts Championship frustration for Middlesbrough's Colin Osborne "Darts: Colin's aiming for top"]. Teesside Live. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2021.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
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