World Darts Championship nine-darter membership: Watch each participant to have produced the ‘excellent leg’ on the Alexandra Palace

A nine-dart end is recurrently described because the ‘perfect leg’, however which gamers are a part of the elite membership to have managed one throughout a World Darts Championship on the Alexandra Palace?

Tournament sponsors Paddy Power have launched ‘The Even Bigger 180 marketing campaign’ for the 2025/26 contest, the place each nine-dart leg will see a money prize of £180,000 evenly break up between the participant who achieved it, Prostate Cancer UK and one fortunate fan within the crowd.

John Lowe turned the primary participant in historical past to hit a televised nine-darter, producing his in opposition to Keith Deller on the 1984 World Matchplay, earlier than Paul Lim made one throughout the 1990 BDO World Championship.

The first televised nine-darter on the PDC did not come till the 2002 World Matchplay, when Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor delivered his magic leg in opposition to Chris Mason, though the primary on the PDC World Darts Championship did not occur till Raymond van Barneveld managed it in 2009.

Van Barneveld’s got here in opposition to Jelle Klaasen that yr and – heading into this yr’s showpiece, reside from December 11 on Sky Sports Darts – is one in every of simply 16 to be registered within the event’s historical past.

The former world champion and Adrian Lewis are the one gamers to have made a number of nine-darters on the Alexandra Palace, however who else has executed it? Take a better take a look at all of these to have delivered the ‘excellent leg’ on the PDC World Darts Championship…

January 2009 – Raymond van Barneveld vs Jelle Klaasen

December 2009 – Raymond van Barneveld vs Brendan Dolan

January 2011 – Adrian Lewis vs Gary Anderson

December 2012 – Dean Winstanley vs Vincent van der Voort

December 2012 – Michael van Gerwen vs James Wade

December 2013 – Terry Jenkins vs Per Laursen

December 2013 – Kyle Anderson vs Ian White

December 2014 – Adrian Lewis vs Raymond van Barneveld

January 2016 – Gary Anderson vs Jelle Klaasen

December 2020 – James Wade vs Stephen Bunting

December 2021 – William Borland vs Bradley Brooks

December 2021 – Darius Labanauskas vs Mike De Decker

January 2022 – Gerwyn Price vs Michael Smith

January 2023 – Michael Smith vs Michael van Gerwen

December 2024 – Christian Kist vs Madars Razma

December 2024 – Damon Heta vs Luke Woodhouse

What is a nine-darter?

A nine-darter is taken into account the right leg of darts, with 9 being the minimal variety of darts wanted to achieve a goal of 501 factors.

The most frequent method to obtain this can be a participant hitting treble 20 with every of their first six darts, leaving 141, earlier than trying out with a treble 20, treble 19, double 12 mixture or by hitting treble 20, treble 15, double 18.

A 141 checkout can be achieved by hitting treble 19, treble 16 and double 18 or treble 17, treble 18 and double 18, whereas there are many different finishes – together with 144, 164 and 167 – to finish a ‘excellent leg’.

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