WDF Europe Cup Men Teams 2010

Turkey is one of the new and ambitious members of the World Darts Federation. Participant since 2006 and already in 2010 they are allowed to organize the seventeenth edition of the WDF Europe Cup. From 13 to 16 October, the Grand Haber Hotel in Kemer is the setting for a fantastic, sunny, European Cup. All records in terms of number of participating countries are broken. In the men, 28 countries participate and in the ladies 27. New countries such as Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, but also countries that are back after a short absence such as Estonia and Greece.

There were no big surprises in the eight groups of the first round of the team tournament. Neither in the first knockout round, although Scotland lost 9-5 to Belgium and Romania pushed Wales a long way, but they would not win (7-9). In the quarterfinals there are some big victims. England loses 9-6 to the strong Belgians and Wales goes down against Norway. Sweden wins the Scandinavian battle with Finland and lastly the Netherlands beats Denmark 9-4. This means that for the first time in history not one of the British countries has reached the semi-finals. And of course that the defending champions, Denmark, are out.

In the semi-finals it is a duel between one of the low countries against one of the Scandinavian. Cor Ernst, Rick Hofstra, Joey ten Berge & Willy van de Wiel compete on behalf of the Netherlands against the Norwegian quartet Oyvind Aasland, Thor-Helmer Johansen, Robert Wagner & Vegar Elvevoll. The Norwegians seem to have given it all against Wales a round earlier because they never really get into their rhythm. With a 9-4 score line, the Netherlands qualifies for the final. In the other semi-finals, Belgians Kim Huybrechts, Ronny Huybrechts, Kurt van de Rijck & Geert de Vos play against the experienced Swedish foursome Magnus Caris, Daniel Larsson, Dennis Nilsson & Orjan Thomsson. A exciting match that ends in a 9-6 victory for the Belgians.

Belgium was in the final before in 1986 and 1998 and with intervals of 12 years it should become three times is a charm in 2010. The Netherlands has much more experience in playing finals but has had bad experiences with it in recent years at Europe and World Cups. At the start of the final it was also clear that the Netherlands would not only win the gold in the team event with a victory, but also the overall title. If Belgium triumphs, then England takes the overall Cup. That tension is felt from the first dart in the Dutch foursome. They never find any rhythm and the Belgians punish every mistake mercilessly. For the first time in history, a Belgian foursome takes the gold in the team event. Kim Huybrechts, Ronny Huybrechts, Kurt van de Rijck & Geert de Vos are responsible for the first ever gold medal for Belgium.

WDF Europe Cup Men Teams

About WDF Europe Cup Men Teams 2010

Competitors Of WDF Europe Cup Men Teams 2010

Øyvind Aasland

Martin Adams

Bac Ales

Kyriakos Anastasiadis

Vladimir Andersen

Janis Armanovics

Pascal Barbezat

Radivoj Bezbradica

Aegir Bjornsson

Roman Bleistein

Cyril Blot

Michel Boulet

Thomas Bremgartner

Stephen Cake

Magnus Caris

Ulf Ceder

Arunas Ciplys

Barry Copeland

Geert De Vos

Christian Demazure

Fridrik Diego

Claudio Dolcetti

John Elder

Gary Elliott

Vegar Elvevoll

Cor Ernst

Oliver Ferenc

Darryl Fitton

Krzysztof Galus

Alireza Ghafouri

Francisco-Javier Gonzalez-Cruz

Branko Grba

Guntars Grebskis

Mitja Habijan

John Henderson

Rafael Higuera-Ruiz

Rick Hofstra

Glenn Honoré

Robert Hughes

Kim Huybrechts

Ronny Huybrechts

Ewan Hyslop

Jiri Jenicek

Antonio Jimenez-Cabrera

Thor-Helmer Johansen

Frede Johansen

Ivar Jonsson

Rene Jorgensen

Stig Jorgensen

Laszlo Kadar

Utku Karaca

Engin Kayaoglu

Jaakko Kiiski

Christoph Kleindienst

Petri Korte

Marcin Koziarek

Osvaldas Ksanys

Marek Kubowicz

Claudius-Bert Kuvi

Daniel Larsson

Mati Leis

Renaud Lescure

Kristo Mannik

Mickey Mansell

Luigi Marino

Martin McCloskey

Stephen McDonnell

Sean McGowan

Paddy Meaney

David Miklas

Einar Moller

Ross Montgomery

Kevin Munch

Imants Nikolajevs

Dennis Nilsson

Vesa Nuutinen

Tony O'Shea