WDF World Cup Men Singles 1983

The English dominate WDF World Cup IV, which was held in Edinburgh on 21 and 22 October. At the WDF General meeting, Peter McMenamin of Australia is elected as the new chairman to replace Bill Turner of New Zealand. For the first time there is also a separate WDF World Cup for women.

The ladies play with two per country. In addition to the Overall WDF World Cup, they also compete for medals in the singles and pairs. 21 countries compete in Scotland, including the debutants Norway and Germany. For the ladies, 19 countries participate in their first WDF World Cup

All four English players reached the quarterfinals and three of them would also reach the semi-finals. Only the brand-new world champion Keith Deller loses to Jocky Wilson. Dave Whitcombe beats Swede Stefan Lord, John Lowe beats Luc Marreel from Belgium and Eric Bristow beats Australian Frank Palko. In the semi-final, pairs partners Bristow and Lowe have to face each other. The Crafty Cockney wins this game 4-2. In the other semi-final, Wilson wins with the same numbers against Dave Whitcombe.

In the final of the singles Eric Bristow and Jocky Wilson faced each other again. Just before Bristow had to go on stage, he found out that the zipper of his pants was broken. He exchanged pants quickly with Keith Deller and could still play. Bristow, who did not play really well in the team event, appeared to have regained his form for the final and won it 4-2. This victory gave Bristow his first WDF World Cup singles title.

WDF World Cup Men Singles

About WDF World Cup Men Singles 1983

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Singles 1983

Arve Andersen

Jean-Yves Baron

Gordon Bond

Steve Brennan

Eric Bristow-MBE

Hubert Brown

John Buckley

Per-Steen Byrgesen

Colin Chandia

Patrick Cochepin

David Crack

Verdan Crane

Danny Cunningham

Conrad Daniels

Rick Daniels

Keith Deller-MBE

Gustaaf Demeulemeester

George Devacht

Bryan Dodd

Ellis Elsevijf

Bjørn Enqvist

Alan Evans

Rob Furmage

Hock-Guan Goh

Peter Hamberg

Bernd Hebecker

Kexi Heinaharju

Svein-Arne Hjelmeland

Tony Holyoake

Peter Hummel

Finn Jensen

Pieter Kessels

Ray Kippari

Hisao Komiya

Rune Kvasheim

Yin-Koi Lam

Jean-Luc Leclercq

Richard Lee

Paul Lim

John Lines

Arto Lintunen

Peter Locke

Stefan Lord

John Lowe

Alex MacKinnon

John Marcusson

Luc Marreel

Peter Masson

Jack McKenna

Ceri Morgan

Rick Ney

Knud Nilsen

Frank Noland

Seamus O'Brien

Terry O'Dea

Danny O'Neill

John-Joe O'Shea

Frank Palko

Chris Parsonson

Harry Patterson

Taisto Piiroinen

Jorgen Rasmussen

Leighton Rees

Colin Rice

Davy Rock

Tony Seixas

Daniel Serie

Derryck Sinclair

Bob Sinnaeve

Peter Stauby

Russell Stewart

David Stewart

Takao Tanida

Jean Troadec

Tapani Uitos

Jerry Umberger

Nicky Virachkul