PDC World Darts Championship 2003

PDC World Darts Championship 2003
Tournament status
Tournament type	World Championship
organizer	PDC
venue	Circus Tavern , Purfleet
Tournament dates
Defending champion	Phil Taylor
Attendees	40
Opening game	December 27, 2002
Endgame	January 4, 2003
Prize money (total)	£ 237,000
Prize money (winner)	£ 50,000
winner	John Part
statistics
highest finish	170 points from Les Fitton Roland Scholten
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The Ladbrokes .com World Darts Championship 2003 took place from December 27th, 2002 to January 4th, 2003 in Purfleet . This world championship was organized by the PDC for the 10th time and took place in the Circus Tavern as in previous years .

Phil Taylor , who won the last eight of the total of nine world championships, faced the number 2 seeded John Part from Canada in the final . However, this time the Canadian emerged as world champion from this game and ended Taylor's streak of 44 victories in a row at a world championship. Part was the first world champion who did not come from England.

Tournament course

The field of participants consisted of a total of 40 players from 8 different countries. From the second round, the best 16 players in the world rankings intervened in the tournament.

Seeding list

No. player Round reached 01. Phil Taylor final 02. John Part victory 03. Ronnie Baxter Round of 16 04th Alan Warriner Semifinals 05. Roland Scholten Quarter finals 06th Peter Manley 2nd round 07th Colin Lloyd Round of 16 08th. Dennis Smith Quarter finals

No. player Round reached 09. Denis Ovens Round of 16 10. Andy Jenkins 2nd round 11. Richie Burnett Quarter finals 12. Dave Askew Round of 16 13.  Johne Lowe 2nd round 14th Kevin Painter Semifinals 15th Jamie Harvey Round of 16 16.  Peter Evison 2nd round

Prize money

The prize money was distributed among the participants as follows:

Position (number of players)		Prize money
winner	(1)	£ 50,000
finalist	(1)	£ 25,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£ 12,500
Quarter finalists	(4)	£ 7,000
Round of 16 players	(8th)	£ 5,000
3rd round loser	(16)	£ 3,000
2nd round loser	(8th)	£ 2,500
1st round loser	(8th)	£ 1,000
Supreme finish	(1)	£ 1,000
Position (number of players)		£ 237,000

Results

1 round

All games were played in the best of 7 sets mode,

Average	encounter			Average
80.11	Mark Holden	4-3	Dave Smith	81.65
83.11	Bob Anderson	4-0	Al Hedman	76.36
81.58	Reg Harding	4-3	Mark Robinson	83.67
86.75	Mick Manning	4-2	Lee Palfreyman	81.13
85.21	Simon Whitlock	4-2	Paul Williams	84.88
87.84	Steve Brown	4-2	David Platt	88.05
92.99	Wayne Mardle	4-0	Ray Carver	82.72
89.85	Shayne Burgess	4-2	Arjan Moen	84.07

2nd round to final

2nd round (best of 7 sets) 28-30. December

Round of 16 (best of 9 sets) 1st – 2nd January

Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) January 3rd

Semi-finals (best of 11 sets) January 4th

Final (best of 13 sets) January 5th

1

Phil Taylor 103.44

4th

Steve Brown 89.15

1

1

Phil Taylor 98.71

5

Wayne Mardle 93.70

3

16

Peter Evison 87.34

3

Wayne Mardle 96.49

4th

1

Phil Taylor 100.37

5

8th

Dennis Smith 94.46

3

8th

Dennis Smith 92.96

4th

Dennis Priestley 84.46

1

8th

Dennis Smith 91.45

5

9

Denis Ovens 93.44

1

9

Denis Ovens 86.41

4th

Alex Roy 82.29

1

1

Phil Taylor 95.60

6th

4th

Alan Warriner 86.77

1

5

Roland Scholten 84.68

4th

Shayne Burgess 81.84

1

5

Roland Scholten 87.79

5

12

Dave Askew 84.24

0

12

Dave Askew 85.22

4th

Steve Beaton 84.89

3

5

Roland Scholten 87.98

2

4th

Alan Warriner 90.87

5

4th

Alan Warriner 85.54

4th

Rod Harrington 79.78

2

4th

Alan Warriner 88.76

5

Les Fitton 87.94

4th

13

John Lowe 72.49

1

Les Fitton 80.90

4th

1

Phil Taylor 99.98

6th

2

John Part 96.86

7th

2

John Part 88.67

4th

Cliff Lazarenko 85.41

1

2

John Part 96.69

5

Jamie Harvey 92.58

3

15th

Jamie Harvey 85.07

4th

Mark Holden 83.26

1

2

John Part 95.50

5

Chris Mason 88.33

0

7th

Colin Lloyd 86.36

4th

Bob Anderson 92.50

3

7th

Colin Lloyd 92.82

1

Chris Mason 96.78

5

10

Andy Jenkins 84.01

2

Chris Mason 90.91

4th

2

John Part 93.20

6th

14th

Kevin Painter 89.47

4th

6th

Peter Manley 86.35

1

Simon Whitlock 87.63

4th

Simon Whitlock 87.68

3

11

Richie Burnett 89.28

5

11

Richie Burnett 91.69

4th

Keith Deller 87.92

3

11

Richie Burnett 83.58

2

14th

Kevin Painter 90.78

5

3

Ronnie Baxter 96.90

4th

Mick Manning 86.38

1

3

Ronnie Baxter 87.94

3

14th

Kevin Painter 87.53

5

14th

Kevin Painter 86.49

4th

Reg Harding 86.43

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Participants per country and round

	CLOSELY	NLD	OUT	SCO	WHALE	CAN	United States	JAM	total
final	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
Semifinals	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4th
Quarter finals	5	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	8th
Round of 16	11	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	16
2nd round	26th	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	32
1 round	11	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	16
total	30th	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	40

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