The British Darts Organisation (BDO) was a darts organisation founded on 7 January 1973 by Olly Croft. Made up of 66 member counties, it oversaw professional, semi-professional and amateur darts competitions in Britain. The BDO was a founder member of the World Darts Federation in 1974. It also staged a World Professional Darts Championship from 1978 to 2020.
Anastasia Petrovna Dobromyslova-Martin is a professional darts player. She is a three-time Women's World Professional Darts Champion of the British Darts Organisation (BDO).
The WDF World Cup is a darts tournament organised by the World Darts Federation and held biennially since 1977. It has featured men's events since the beginning, while women's events were added in 1983 and youth events in 1999. The most recent tournament, the 2023 World Cup, was held in Esbjerg, Denmark. The event used to be broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom, but coverage of the tournament ceased after the 1987 World Cup.
The Finder Darts Masters was a darts tournament held in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, sanctioned by the British Darts Organisation and the World Darts Federation, running intermittently under several different names from 1995 to 2018.
Gary James Grant Anderson is a Scottish professional darts player playing in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Nicknamed "The Flying Scotsman", after the famous steam train, he is a former BDO and WDF world number one, and a two-time PDC World Champion, having won the title in 2015 and 2016. He is regarded as one of the best darts players of all time.
The World Darts Federation (WDF) is a sport governing body and a tournament organiser for the game of darts. It was formed in 1974 by representatives of the original fourteen founding members. Membership is open to the national organising body for darts in all nations. The WDF encourages the promotion of the sport of darts among and between those bodies, in an effort to gain international recognition for darts as a major sport. The WDF is a full member of Global Association of International Sports Federations, which is the governing body for international sports federations.
Irina Armstrong née Loginova is a Russian-born German professional darts player who currently plays in the World Darts Federation (WDF) events. Her biggest achievement to date was advanced to semi-finals in the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship. She is a gold medalist in pairs competitions during the WDF World Cup and WDF Europe Cup.
Ross Montgomery, nicknamed The Boss, is a former Scottish professional darts player who played in both the World Darts Federation (WDF) and the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Montgomery also played American football in his native Scotland, having spent eleven years with Glasgow Diamonds. He was forced to retire through injury and took up the game of darts instead.
The WDF Asia-Pacific Cup is a darts tournament held biennially since 1974. The tournament consists of a team championship, a pairs championship and a singles championship. All events have a men's competition, and a women's competition. The most recent Asia-Pacific Cup was held in 2010, in Tokyo, Japan.
The WDF Europe Youth Cup is a youth darts tournament held annually since 1990.
The Spring Cup was an international darts competition contested by nations from continental Europe which ran from 1986 to 2012. It was run by the European Darts Council and featured singles and team events for men and women.
Janni Maria Larsen is a Danish female professional darts player who currently plays in the World Darts Federation (WDF) events. She is a two-time Danish Champion. Her other big achievement to date was winning a two bronze medals at the WDF Europe Cup. She represented her country 16 times during the WDF World Cup and WDF Europe Cup.
The Six Nations Cup is an international darts team competition currently organised by the English Darts Organisation (EDO), run under the auspices of the British Darts Organisation (BDO). It is competed for by the national teams of England, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The 2014 WDF Europe Cup was the 19th edition of the WDF Europe Cup darts tournament, organised by the World Darts Federation. It was held in Bucharest, Romania from September 23 to 27.
Beau Greaves is an English darts player who plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. She is the current back-to-back two-time ladies' world champion having won the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship and 2023 WDF World Darts Championship and the current back-to-back PDC Women's World Matchplay Champion having won the event in 2023 and 2024.
The 2022 Lakeside WDF World Championship was the first World Championship organised by the World Darts Federation. The tournament was held at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey, England, which hosted the now-defunct BDO World Darts Championship from 1986 to 2019. The titles were won by Neil Duff in the men's competition, and Beau Greaves in the women's.
Stefanie Rennoch is a German professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Her biggest achievement to date was qualified for 2022 PDC Women's Series semi-finals and winning a silver medal at the WDF World Cup.
Almudena Fajardo Ayuso is a Spanish female professional soft-tip and steel-tip darts player who currently plays in the World Darts Federation (WDF) events. She is a two-time EDU European Darts Champion and first Spanish female player who played in the final of the WDF Europe Cup competition. She was qualified for the 2023 WDF World Darts Championship.
Tomáš Houdek is a Czech professional darts player who plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won a gold medal in the 2022 WDF Europe Cup Youth and was a Czech Youth Champion. He has represented his country at the WDF Europe Cup.
Patricia De Peuter is a Belgian professional soft-tip and steel-tip darts player who plays in the World Darts Federation (WDF) events. Her biggest achievement to date was qualified for the BDO World Darts Championship and achieved a gold medal at the WDF Europe Cup and EDF European Darts Championship. She also participated in the WDF World Cup and EDU European Darts Championship.
Martin Heneghan (men's singles)
Fiona Gaylor (women's singles)
Scott Mitchell & Daniel Day (men's pairs)
Sweden (men's team)
