WDF World Cup Men Overall 1981

For this WDF World Cup, most countries had to fly halfway around the world to distant New Zealand. The venue was the Trafalgar Centre in Nelson and the tournament was played on 2 and 3 October. Still 16 countries showed up, which may be called a success on its own.

Amongst them, some notable countries such as Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, which made their debut, together with Singapore. Among the 64 participants, only one woman participated. Selly Tain, born on the Solomon Islands but playing for Papua New Guinea She is the first woman to ever play at a WDF World Cup.

The general classification went masterfully to the English team Eric Bristow, Tony Brown, Cliff Lazarenko & John Lowe with 132 points. The Scots were the runners-up with 45 points. The hosts from New Zealand came in third with 41 points. Fourth place went to the cool Swedes with 31 points. The USA closed the top five with 29 points.

Overall ranking
1 - 132 points England
2 - 45 points Scotland
3 - 41 points New Zealand
4 - 31 points Sweden
5 - 29 points United States
6 - 26 points Australia / Wales
8 - 20 points Singapore
9 - 19 points Denmark / Netherlands
11 - 18 points Canada
12 - 17 points Northern Ireland / Papua New Guinea / Philippines
15 - 16 points Hong Kong / Japan

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Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Overall 1981

Gordon Allpress

Michael Boaden

Steve Brennan

Eric Bristow-MBE

Tim Brown

Tony Brown

John Burnett

Per-Steen Byrgesen

Ricky Castro

Shing-Wai Chan

Verdan Crane

William Dalzell

Rinus Daniels

Bjørn Enqvist

Alan Evans

Takeyasu Ezaki

Alistair Forrester

George Foster

Dale Frampton

Avtar Gill

Peter Hamberg

Alan Hill

Bernard Hoong

Finn Jensen

Peter Kairus

James Kelly

Ray Kippari

Ian Koati

Hisao Komiya

Ted Kyle

Jan Larsen

Cliff Lazarenko

Richard Lee

Paul Lim

Wayne Locke

Stefan Lord

John Lowe

Boerge Madsen

Billy Mateer

Bruce Matthews

Wade McDonald

Patrick McGorrigan

Tokio Miyahara

Ceri Morgan

Daniel Morris

Malcolm Nolan

Nobua Okada

Christer Pilblad

Andrew Pringle

Dan Pucillo

Leighton Rees

Andy Robinson

Raymond Rogers

Angus Ross

Rab Smith

Selly Tain

Leung-Chiu Tang

Barry Templeton

Jerry Umberger

Nicky Virachkul

Jocky Wilson

Hildebrand de Jonge

Danny de la Cruz

Eddie de la Cruz

Callers Of WDF World Cup Men Overall 1981

Tony Green

John Mancer

WDF World Cup Men Overall 1981