WDF World Cup Men Singles 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.

The singles title goes to Jeff Smith from Canada. He beats Raymond Smith from Australia 7-5 in the final. Ten different nationalities reach the last 16, which indicates how open the tournament was in 2017, partly due to the absence of a number of the superpowers.

Jeff Smith beats Cody Harris, Thibault Tricole, Patrick Susanna, Chris Landman and Willem Mandigers en route to the final. In addition to Mandigers, it is the German Ricardo Pietreczko who gets the bronze. Pietreczko is the first German man to win an individual medal at a WDF World Cup. Jeff Smith is also the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal.

WDF World Cup Men Singles

About WDF World Cup Men Singles 2017

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Singles 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