WDF World Cup Men Pairs 2017

The 21st edition of the WDF World Cup was held from 3 to 7 October at the Kobe International Exhibition Hall in Japan. It is after Kuala Lumpur in 2011 the second time that the WDF World Cup is played in Asia. A number of leading darts countries are absent from this 21st edition of this event. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, among others, cannot get it financially in order to travel to Japan.

Yet it will be an unforgettable edition in which 28 men's teams, 26 women's teams and 12 youth teams compete for the big Cups. Hong Kong was last there in 1989 and returns to the WDF World Cup, Mongolia and South Korea make their debut, just as Marco Meijer does as a referee on the podium.

For the first time in history, the men from Russia win a medal at a WDF World Cup and it immediately is a golden one. The pairing of Boris Koltsov and Aleksandr Oreshkin is the strongest pair during this tournament. In the last 16, they eliminate defending champions Wesley Harms and Richard Veenstra and then also beat the Americans Joe Chaney & Tom Sawyer, the Norwegians Thor-Helmer Johansen & Cor Dekker and in the final the Canadians Jeff Smith & Kiley Edmunds.

The Canadians therefore take the silver, bronze is for the Norwegians Johansen & Dekker as well as for the Belgian tandem of Tony Martinez & Sven Verdonck.

WDF World Cup Men Pairs

About WDF World Cup Men Pairs 2017

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Pairs 2017

Katsuya Aiba

Tobias Anliker

Marco Apollonio

Manav Babariya

Andy Baetens

Charles Bain

Tom Becker

Yoann Belchun

Stefan Bellmont

Cyril Blot

Justin Broton

Tom Burquel

Ulf Ceder

Mustafa Celebi

Joe Chaney

Piyush Chauhan

Kwang-Hee Cho

Richard-Lee Chong

Mogens Christensen

Mark Cleaver

Wayne Copeland

Tony Dawkins

Cor Dekker

Alex Daniel Duason

Kiley Edmunds

Johan Engström

Shingo Enomata

George Federico

Terry Fougere

Keith Geraghty

Leslie Gouvea

Lucas Grobbelaar

Petur Rudrik Gudmundsson

Vitor Charrua

Wesley Harms

Cody Harris

Lars Helsinghof

Martin Heneghan

Yuya Higuchi

Shawn Hogan

Alex Hon

Shaikh-Ayaan Hossain

Tahuna Irwin

Punnilal Jangade

Alex-B Jensen

Thor-Helmer Johansen

Thomas Junghans

Marko Kantele

Kieran Kehoe

Odkhuu Khundaganai

Baasandorj Khurelpurev

Joe Kieffer

Ki-Young Kim

Tae-Hyun Kim

Christian Knowles

Boris Koltsov

Jacques Labre

Chris Landman

Daniel Larsson

Kai-Fan Leung

Oskar Lukasiak

Scott MacKenzie

Peter Machin

Willem Mandigers

Salvatore Mantarro

Tony Martinez

Edmund Mathura

Michael Meaney

Ulrich Meyn

Dwight Miller

Engelbert Morgan

Greg Moss

Altantulkhuur Myagmarsuren

Ricky Nauman

Asko Niskala

Roman Obukhov

Yuichirou Ogawa