Keith Deller

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Keith Deller Darts pictogram.svg
To person
Nickname The Feller
nation EnglandEngland England
Date of birth December 24, 1959
place of birth Ipswich , England
Darts
Darts since 1975
Throwing hand right
darts Target 21g Keith Deller
Enema music "Things Can Only Get Better" by DReam
BDO 1983-1993
PDC 1993-2008
Most important successes
  • BDO world champion: 1983.
Infobox last updated: January 28, 2013

Keith Deller (born December 24, 1959 in Ipswich ) is a former English darts player .

Deller won the Embassy World Professional Darts Championship in 1983 . He was the first qualifier to ever win the world championship, and for a long time the youngest world champion in history. In the close final he beat Eric Bristow 6: 5 .

The following year he reached the final of the World Masters . 1998 was another very successful year for him with the semi-finals at the World Cup and the World Matchplay .

He is currently the manager of two-time world champion Adrian Lewis and works for Sky Sports as a spotter . Here he worked for a time with his then World Cup final opponent Eric Bristow .

Special

In the 1983 World Cup final, Deller showed extreme nerve strength, as he checked 138 points over triple-20, triple-18, double-12 to win the match with a score of 5: 5 sets, as opponent Bristow with 50 points remaining, 32 points remaining instead of aiming for the bulls-eye. This finish has been called the Keith Deller finish after him .

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