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Leighton Bennett (born 31 December 2005) is an English former professional darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the final of the 2019 BDO World Youth Darts Championship. He has received an eight-year suspension from DRA–sanctioned darts events after being found guilty of match-fixing. [1]
Darren Peetoom (born 23 August 1969) is an English former professional darts player who competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO) events. He qualified for the 2016 BDO World Darts Championship . Career
Darts is becoming must-see TV, something the sport could only have dreamed of a few years ago. Yet there is an odd disparity in the rivalry that may define darts for the next decade.
The British Darts Organisation (BDO) was formed in 1973 by Olly Croft.It gradually superseded the existing National Darts Association of Great Britain (NDAGB) as the governing body of darts in the UK and by the early 1980s had established a monopoly on organised darts in Britain, running super league darts, county darts and major tournaments, including the annual World Championship. [2]
The sports included darts, pool, bar billiards, bar skittles, table football (a.k.a. foosball), arm wrestling and shove ha'penny amongst others. Among the commentators were Dave Lanning and Keith Macklin. The programme was broadcast from The Leeds Irish Centre, which was later recognised as the 'birthplace of television darts' [2]
The British Open [1] is one of the longest-running darts events, having started just a few months after the first ever Winmau World Masters. The tournament used to be televised by the BBC from its inception, but it ceased to cover the event after 1983.
His best result on the British Darts Organisation circuit was a British Open semi-final in 2004. Thompson joined the PDC in 2007. At the 2008 UK Open , he defeated Adrian Gray , Steve Maish and Brendan Dolan on the way to the quarter-finals, where he was beaten 5–10 by Vincent van der Voort .
Farmer though was unable to maintain his form from the previous year and was forced to qualify for the 2009 BDO World Darts Championship and lost in the early qualifying rounds. He did though reach the quarter-finals of the 2008 World Masters, qualifying for the last 16 where he beat Gary Robson before losing to Martin Adams.