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About WDF World Cup Men Pairs 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.
England also wins the pairs tournament convincingly after the team tournament and so they still had the maximum points for the overall classification. Both John Lowe & Eric Bristow and Tony Brown & Cliff Lazarenko reach the final. Lazarenko was called last minute to replace the sick Bobby George. George had a ruptured spleen that he sustained during the Unipart British Professional.
Both English pairs easily won 4-0 in their semi-finals against Leighton Rees & Alan Evans from Wales and Rab Smith & Alistair Forrester from Scotland respectively.
In the final, Tony Brown & Cliff Lazarenko won with surprisingly great conviction against the numbers one and two in the world and twice WDF World Cup Pairs Champions Lowe & Bristow with 4-0.
Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Pairs 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 Pairs 1981
WDF World Cup Men Pairs 1981
Nelson, NZL
