The 2008 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 15th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place between 17 December 2007 and 1 January 2008 at the Alexandra Palace, London, England. In Group B, it was Chas Barstow who sealed top spot as he completed a perfect record on Night 2 in winning four matches from four and dropping just six legs along the way. Despite finishing bottom with two points on Night 2, Paul Hogan also secured his place in Saturday’s finale after he was the league winner on Night 1 of Group B. Elsewhere, Joe Davis and Richie Burnett ended with six points across the two nights, whereas Colin Monk finished bottom with just two points.

Raymond van Barneveld's reign as PDC World Championship was ended by Kevin Painter in a thrilling match which Painter finished off with a ten-dart leg to clinch the match 4–2. Painter hit seven consecutive treble 20s, en route to a possible nine dart leg before missing a treble 19 before completing a remarkable ten darter to go through to the quarter-finals. Kirk Shepherd 6–4 Wayne Mardle (0–3, 3–0, 3–2, 3–2, 2–3, 1–3, 2–3, 3–2, 3–1, 3–2) John Part 6-2 Kevin Painter (3–2, 3–2, 0–3, 3–1, 3–2, 3–2, 0–3, 3–2) Day Twelve, Final, Tuesday 1 January 2008 [ edit ] The 2012 William Hill Grand Slam of Darts, was the sixth staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 10–18 November 2012 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England.This table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship, the total number including the preliminary round. Kirk Shepherd became the youngest player to ever reach a Darts World Championship ( PDC or BDO) final. Brilliant Barney's Grand Slam Triumph!". PDC. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012 . Retrieved 19 November 2012.

I’ve won it once, and that might be enough for some people, but it isn’t for me,” he says. “I want to do this again and again. I want to be called out as a multiple world champion, and spoken about like some of the greats of the game. It was tough after winning it last year, but you realise there’s lots left to achieve. The PDC Chairman Barry Hearn announced on 21 February 2007 that all major tournament finalists for the past two years from both the BDO and PDC will be invited to the event. Also World Championship semi-finalists from the same period would receive an invite. But you could see how good he was playing darts. Then he got a bump in training,and that let him focus on darts. W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Prel.) Preliminary round; (DNQ) Did not qualify; (DNP) Did not participate; (NH) Not held Performance timeline [ edit ] TournamentQualifying events were held at Greene King pubs across the UK – winners from each pub event progressed to one of four Regional Finals, to be staged in their relevant area. Players who reach the final eight in the Regional Finals will qualify for the televised stages of the UK Open in Bolton. Scores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3) Statistics [ edit ] Player Akihiro Nagakawa 68.85 2– 5 Anthony Forde 69.83 Rizal Barellano 68.58 0– 5 Miloslav Navrátil 74.96 Alan Bolton 60.38 0– 5 Erwin Extercatte 63.15 Ashfaque Sayed 72.03 0– 5 Shi Yongsheng 78.28 Draw [ edit ]