WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2000

The twelfth WDF Europe Cup was held in Veldhoven from 11 to 14 October. The Netherlands will host the WDF Europe Cup for the second time after The Hague in 1984. 21 Countries participate in the men's competition, 19 in the women's competition. For the first time since 1992, this means a decline in the number of participating countries. There are a lot of spectators present at this edition. This is undoubtedly due to the high expectations of the host country. There is a darts hype in the Netherlands since the World Championship titles of Raymond van Barneveld in 1998 and 1999.

However, Van Barneveld doesn't get very far in the singles. In his second game he already crashes out 3-4 against the Finn Marko Pusa. Who in turn also immediately loses a round later to the Northern Irishman Mitchell Crooks. The quarterfinals include seven different nationalities. The last remaining Dutchman Arjan Moen loses here to the Welshman Ritchie Davies. The last Englishman also loses in the last eight when Martin Adams finds his Waterloo against Sean McGowan from Ireland. The Danes are still with two players left in the quarterfinals. Frede Johansen beats the Austrian ace Mensur Suljovic, while Brian Sørensen loses to the previously mentioned Northern Irishman Mitchell Crooks.

What remains are four surprising semi-finalists who will all dream of a gold medal. Mitchell Crooks continues to play well and beats the Dane Johansen 4-0 without any problems. The other semi-final is a close and exciting one. Ritchie Davies eventually wins it in a seventh and deciding leg against Irishman McGowan. In the final Crooks continues to play very strong and Davies is no match for him either. With a 4-2 win, Crook makes history for Northern Ireland. He becomes the first man to win a gold medal for his country, two years after Denise Cassidy has won the women's singles, Mitchell Crooks takes the men's gold.

WDF Europe Cup Men Singles

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Competitors Of WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2000

Godfrey Abela

Martin Adams

Gary Anderson

Arnold Anderwald

Mikael Armbladh

Nandor Bezzeg

Marco Blesing

Tanguy Borra

Attila Boszok

Daniel Bottelbergs

Michel Boulet

Cyril Brosse

Alan Brown

Brian Buur

Des Byrne

Robbie Cannell

Alan Carlisle

Joe Caruana

Ulf Ceder

Paris Chloros

Emmanuel Ciantar

Gaudenz Coray

Gwen Cornec

Mitchell Crooks

Roland Csermely

Ritchie Davies

Floros Economou

John Elder

Luca Falseti

Demetris Georgiou

Charles Ghiller

Gordon Gregory

Ted Hankey

Frans Harmsen

Richard Herbert

Robert Hughes

Per-Otto Jakobsen

Frede Johansen

Stig Jorgensen

Jason Kavanagh

Mervyn King

Jarkko Komula

Ermos Korradou

Per Laursen

Dennis McCarthy

Sean McGowan

John Michael

Arjan Moen

Christos Padazopoulos

Kevin Painter

Sergio Pettarini

Martin Phillips

Loris Polese

Attila Port

Marko Pusa

Colin Rice

Ronny Rohr

Michael Rosenauer

Laurent Saillour

Vidar Samuelsen

John Sandåker

Peter Schonauer

Paul Sertin

Tomas Seyler

Arne Sivertsen

Peter Sjoberg

Co Stompé

Mensur Suljovic

Bob Taylor

Franz Thaler

George Trypiniotis

Axel Tschinkowitz

Walter Tschudin

Chris Van den Bergh

Mike Veitch

Kim Viljanen

Sergei Vodicar