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Keith Deller MBE (born 24 December 1959) [1] is an English former professional darts player best known for winning the 1983 BDO World Darts Championship. He also won the Unipart British Professional Championship in 1987. He was the first qualifier to win the World Darts Championship and remains one of the youngest champions in history.
1983 BDO World Darts Champion - Keith Deller The 1983 Embassy World Darts Championship was staged at Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent from 1–8 January 1983.. The tournament saw one of the World Darts Championship's biggest upsets, when Keith Deller defeated Eric Bristow, by 6 sets to 5 in the final, to become the youngest ever World Darts Champion and the first qualifier to win the ...
Eric Bristow made up for his defeat against Keith Deller in the previous year's final by winning his third world title having dropped just one set in the entire tournament. He beat Finn Jensen , Rick Ney , Peter Locke and John Lowe before defeating Dave Whitcombe in the final by 7 sets to 1.
In 1983, Keith Deller, a 23-year-old qualifier from Ipswich, beat the world's top three players back-to-back: John Lowe (world no. 3) in the quarter-final; reigning champion and World No. 2 Jocky Wilson in the semi-final, before an epic deciding set win against World no. 1 Eric Bristow in the final, to produce one of the greatest upsets in the ...
The MFI World Matchplay championship was a major darts tournament organised by the British Darts Organisation.. The tournament only lasted for five years but is historic in darts as it featured the first ever televised nine-dart finish on 13 October 1984 when John Lowe won £102,000 for the perfect game of darts against Keith Deller.
Fifth seed Dennis Priestley lost 3–2 against Keith Deller. [6] The first two sets were won by Deller. Priestley won the next two to force a final set decider that Deller won 6–4 on the bullseye ring. [20] Taylor had an average of 94.08 over Nigel Justice and had a 151 checkout in a 3–0 whitewash. [13]
In that year's world final, Keith Deller, a qualifier and 66/1 tournament outsider, defeated the heavily-favoured Eric Bristow 6–5 in an epic match. Described as the sport's zenith in its first boom period, it was watched by a Saturday afternoon audience of 8.3 million, a record for a darts match.
Keith Deller: 2–4 John Lowe: QF 1985: 100.80 unseeded Phil Taylor: 5–0 Cliff Lazarenko: SF 1990: 102.63 1 Dennis Priestley: 3–0 Jocky Wilson: 1st 1993: 103.98 1 Phil Taylor: 6–0 Dennis Priestley: F 1998: 105.03 3 Phil Taylor: 3–0 Reg Harding 1st 1999: 105.87 2 Phil Taylor: 6–0 Alan Warriner: QF 2000: 107.46 2 Phil Taylor: 7–0 John ...