Nico Kurz | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Born | [1] [2] 31 January 1997 Hanau, Germany | ||||
Home town | Nidderau, Germany | ||||
Darts information | |||||
Playing darts since | 2014 | ||||
Darts | 20 Gram | ||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||
Walk-on music | "Live Is Life" by Opus | ||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||
PDC | 2016– | ||||
PDC premier events – best performances | |||||
World Ch'ship | Last 32: 2020 | ||||
Other tournament wins | |||||
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Nico Kurz (born 31 January 1997) is a German darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
In 2018, he qualified as a German Superleague qualifier for the 2018 German Darts Masters in the 2018 World Series of Darts, but lost 6–5 against Jamie Lewis. He made his European Tour debut by qualifying for the 2019 European Darts Open but lost 6–5 against Kim Huybrechts after missing seven match darts.
At the 2019 German Darts Masters Kurz caused a huge upset by beating world number three Gary Anderson 6–4 in the first round and hitting a maximum 170 finish in the match, but lost 6–8 to Peter Wright in the Quarter-finals.
PDC
Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||||
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PDC World Championship | 3R | 2R | DNQ | |||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||
Year-end ranking | 87 | 96 | – | 171 |
PDC European Tour
Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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2019 | EDO 1R | GDC DNQ | GDG DNP | GDO DNQ | ADO DNP | EDG DNP | DDM DNP | DDO DNP | CDO DNP | ADC DNP | EDM DNQ | IDO DNQ | GDT DNP |
2020 | BDC DNP | GDC DNQ | EDG DNQ | IDO DNP | |||||||||
2021 | Did not play | ||||||||||||
2022 | IDO 2R | GDC DNQ | GDG DNQ | ADO DNQ | EDO 1R | CDO DNQ | EDG DNQ | DDC DNP | EDM DNQ | HDT DNP | GDO DNQ | BDO DNP | GDT DNP |
2023 | BSD DNQ | EDO 1R | IDO DNQ | GDG DNQ | ADO DNQ | DDC DNP | BDO DNP | CDO DNP | EDG 1R | EDM DNQ | GDO 1R | HDT DNP | GDC 3R |
Performance timeline legend | |||||||
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DNP | Did not play in the event | DNQ | Did not qualify for the event | WD | Withdrew from the event | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals | SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
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