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1985 BDO World Darts Championship

FieldValue
tournament_name1985 BDO World Darts Championship
dates5–12 January 1985
venueJollees Cabaret Club
locationStoke-on-Trent
countryEngland
organisationBDO
formatSets
Final – best of 11
prize_fund£43,000
winners_share£10,000
high_checkout170 ENG John Lowe
winnerENG Eric Bristow
prev1984
next1986

Final – best of 11

The 1985 BDO World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the The 1985 Embassy World Darts Championship) was the 8th World Professional Championships. The tournament was held between 5 and 12 January. It was the seventh and final time that the tournament was held at the Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent, as the tournament organisers, the British Darts Organisation, decided to move the event to the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey, from 1986.

Eric Bristow went into the tournament as defending champion and was almost beaten in the first round by Ken Summers. Summers had won the first set and was two legs to nil in front and left on 68 to pull off a major surprise. After hitting single 20 and single 16, he threw a potential match-winning dart at double sixteen just inside the wire of the single. Bristow then came back to win the match. Bristow went on to win his fourth World Title, extending his own record for victories. John Lowe suffered defeat in the final for the fourth time, failing to add to his only previous title – won in 1979.

Keith Deller, champion two years previously, set a new record for becoming the first player to average over 100 with his three darts during a match at the World Championship. His average of 100.30 was not enough to win his quarter-final against John Lowe, who averaged 97.83. Bristow almost matched this record in his semi-final victory over Dave Whitcombe. Bristow fell just short of a hundred, with an average of 99.66. In the final against Lowe, Bristow exactly equalled the then record for the highest average in a World Championship final, of 97.50, from the previous year's final of Bristow vs. Whitcombe.

Prize money

Total Prize fund was £43,000 (plus a £51,000 bonus for a nine-dart finish – not won)

  • Champion £10,000
  • Runner-up £5,000
  • Semi-finalists £2,500
  • Quarter-finalists £1,500
  • 2nd round losers £1,000
  • 1st round losers £500
  • Highest checkout £1,000

Seeds

  1. ENG Eric Bristow
  2. ENG John Lowe
  3. ENG Mike Gregory
  4. SCO Jocky Wilson
  5. ENG Dave Whitcombe
  6. ENG Cliff Lazarenko
  7. ENG Dave Lee
  8. NIR Steve Brennan

Results

| team-width=200 | RD1-seed01=1 | RD1-team01=ENG Eric Bristow (86.46)| | RD1-score01=2 | RD1-seed02= | RD1-team02=ENG Ken Summers (81.75)| | RD1-score02=1 | RD1-seed03= | RD1-team03=BEL Willy Logie (81.27)| | RD1-score03=2 | RD1-seed04= | RD1-team04=CAN Bob Sinnaeve (82.29)| | RD1-score04=1 | RD1-seed05=8 | RD1-team05=NIR Steve Brennan (83.64)| | RD1-score05=2 | RD1-seed06= | RD1-team06=WAL Ceri Morgan (81.06)| | RD1-score06=1 | RD1-seed07= | RD1-team07=ENG Alan Glazier (84.51)| | RD1-score07=2 | RD1-seed08= | RD1-team08=USA Jerry Umberger (82.41)| | RD1-score08=0 | RD1-seed09=5 | RD1-team09=ENG Dave Whitcombe (87.81)| | RD1-score09=2 | RD1-seed10= | RD1-team10=CAN Alex MacKinnon (69.63)| | RD1-score10=0 | RD1-seed11= | RD1-team11=ENG Bob Anderson (88.65)| | RD1-score11=2 | RD1-seed12= | RD1-team12=FIN Arto Lintunen (85.95)| | RD1-score12=1 | RD1-seed13=4 | RD1-team13=SCO Jocky Wilson (76.56)| | RD1-score13=2 | RD1-seed14= | RD1-team14=SCO Peter Masson (75.42)| | RD1-score14=0 | RD1-seed15= | RD1-team15=AUS Russell Stewart (82.53)| | RD1-score15=2 | RD1-seed16= | RD1-team16=WAL Leighton Rees (78.45)| | RD1-score16=1 | RD1-seed17=2 | RD1-team17=ENG John Lowe (85.86)| | RD1-score17=2 | RD1-seed18= | RD1-team18=AUS Terry O'Dea (81.36)| | RD1-score18=1 | RD1-seed19= | RD1-team19=ENG John Cosnett (77.28)| | RD1-score19=2 | RD1-seed20= | RD1-team20=ENG Rab Scott (75.63)| | RD1-score20=0 | RD1-seed21=7 | RD1-team21=ENG Dave Lee (85.35)| | RD1-score21=1 | RD1-seed22= | RD1-team22=BEL Luc Marreel (83.94)| | RD1-score22=2 | RD1-seed23= | RD1-team23=ENG Keith Deller (79.32)| | RD1-score23=2 | RD1-seed24= | RD1-team24=USA Nicky Virachkul (73.80)| | RD1-score24=0 | RD1-seed25=6 | RD1-team25=ENG Cliff Lazarenko (89.22)| | RD1-score25=2 | RD1-seed26= | RD1-team26=SIN Paul Lim (83.16)| | RD1-score26=0 | RD1-seed27= | RD1-team27=SWE Stefan Lord (81.90)| | RD1-score27=2 | RD1-seed28= | RD1-team28=FIN Tapani Uitos (77.28)| | RD1-score28=1 | RD1-seed29=3 | RD1-team29=ENG Mike Gregory (86.79)| | RD1-score29=0 | RD1-seed30= | RD1-team30=ENG Bobby George (87.21)| | RD1-score30=2 | RD1-seed31= | RD1-team31=NIR Fred McMullan (80.55)| | RD1-score31=2 | RD1-seed32= | RD1-team32=WAL Peter Locke (81.03)| | RD1-score32=0 | RD2-seed01=1 | RD2-team01=ENG Eric Bristow (90.54)| | RD2-score01=3 | RD2-seed02= | RD2-team02=BEL Willy Logie (84.57)| | RD2-score02=0 | RD2-seed03=8 | RD2-team03=NIR Steve Brennan (86.13)| | RD2-score03=2 | RD2-seed04= | RD2-team04=ENG Alan Glazier (94.68)| | RD2-score04=3 | RD2-seed05=5 | RD2-team05=ENG Dave Whitcombe (97.14)| | RD2-score05=3 | RD2-seed06= | RD2-team06=ENG Bob Anderson (91.86)| | RD2-score06=1 | RD2-seed07=4 | RD2-team07=SCO Jocky Wilson (88.86)| | RD2-score07=3 | RD2-seed08= | RD2-team08=AUS Russell Stewart (83.82)| | RD2-score08=1 | RD2-seed09=2 | RD2-team09=ENG John Lowe (84.54)| | RD2-score09=3 | RD2-seed10= | RD2-team10=ENG John Cosnett (72.75)| | RD2-score10=0 | RD2-seed11= | RD2-team11=BEL Luc Marreel (81.48)| | RD2-score11=0 | RD2-seed12= | RD2-team12=ENG Keith Deller (91.29)| | RD2-score12=3 | RD2-seed13=6 | RD2-team13=ENG Cliff Lazarenko (96.90)| | RD2-score13=3 | RD2-seed14= | RD2-team14=SWE Stefan Lord (90.21)| | RD2-score14=0 | RD2-seed15= | RD2-team15=ENG Bobby George (89.01)| | RD2-score15=1 | RD2-seed16= | RD2-team16=NIR Fred McMullan (93.06)| | RD2-score16=3 | RD3-seed01=1 | RD3-team01=ENG Eric Bristow (91.71)| | RD3-score01=4 | RD3-seed02= | RD3-team02=ENG Alan Glazier (80.70)| | RD3-score02=0 | RD3-seed03=5 | RD3-team03=ENG Dave Whitcombe (94.92)| | RD3-score03=4 | RD3-seed04=4 | RD3-team04=SCO Jocky Wilson (95.52)| | RD3-score04=3 | RD3-seed05=2 | RD3-team05=ENG John Lowe (98.09)| | RD3-score05=4 | RD3-seed06= | RD3-team06=ENG Keith Deller (100.30)| | RD3-score06=2 | RD3-seed07=6 | RD3-team07=ENG Cliff Lazarenko (78.27)| | RD3-score07=4 | RD3-seed08= | RD3-team08=NIR Fred McMullan (73.98)| | RD3-score08=0 | RD4-seed01=1 | RD4-team01=ENG Eric Bristow (99.66)| | RD4-score01=5 | RD4-seed02=5 | RD4-team02=ENG Dave Whitcombe (97.02)| | RD4-score02=2 | RD4-seed03=2 | RD4-team03=ENG John Lowe (95.55)| | RD4-score03=5 | RD4-seed04=6 | RD4-team04=ENG Cliff Lazarenko (92.67)| | RD4-score04=3 | RD5-seed01=1 | RD5-team01=ENG Eric Bristow (97.50)| | RD5-score01=6 | RD5-seed02=2 | RD5-team02=ENG John Lowe (93.12) | RD5-score02=2

References

References

  1. "Jollees Cabaret Club". bbc.co.uk.
  2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GfywGtMcOE 1985 World Final Youtube (1st round match at 5:45) YouTube]
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