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About WDF World Cup Men Teams 1985
John Kramer
Rick Ney
Tony Payne
Dan Valletto
The new World Darts Federation president, Australian Peter McMenamin, hosted top darts players from 17 countries in his country from October 17 to 19, 1985. The Crest Hotel in Brisbane, Queensland is the venue.
Malaysia is the only country that has not previously competed in a WDF World Cup. They only come with their men's team, Norway on the other hand only bring their ladies to Australia.
In the men's team event the semi-finals produced a major upset. To everyone's surprise England with John Lowe, Eric Bristow, Cliff Lazarenko & Dave Lee were beaten by as much as 0-9 by Rick Ney, John Kramer, Dan Valletto & Tony Payne on behalf of the USA. Before that, the Americans had already proved their talents against Wales 9-6 and Sweden 9-5. In the final, the USA bumped into the host country Australia. Terry O'Dea, Russell Stewart, Frank Palko & Horrie Seden led 7-2 in their semi-final against Scottish foursome Jocky Wilson, Danny Cunningham, Robert McKenzie & Jim McGuigan. However, the Scots came back strongly to 7-7, but eventually lost 7-9.
The final between Australia and the USA is very close until 6-6, then the Americans win the last three legs of the final on the spin and win 9-6. With this victory team USA shut the critics mouth, who before the tournament had stated that Nicky Virachkul and Jerry Umberger had to be in the team and that this team was doomed to failure. Rick Ney had not proven anything so far that year, Dan Valletto was with his 50 years too old and on John Kramer and Tony Payne the opinions were also divided. Afterwards, John Kramer had the best statement of them all: "We came, we saw, we kicked ass".
It is the first time that this title does not go to a British country. Rick Ney, John Kramer, Dan Valletto & Tony Payne forever have this piece of history to their name.
Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Teams 1985
Flor Aldon
Gordon Allpress
Brent Bartholmew
Rick Bisaro
Ronald Both
Howard Brazil
Steve Brennan
Eric Bristow-MBE
Ricky Castro
Pei-Chin Chew
Danny Cunningham
Malcolm Davies
Steve Dixon
Bjørn Enqvist
Ray Farrell
Jasmi Hamid
Bernd Hebecker
Manfred Hegmann
Kexi Heinaharju
Olivier Jean-Gilles
Lars-Erik Karlsson
David Keery
Mitsuru Komatsubara
John Kramer
Cliff Lazarenko
Jean-Luc Leclercq
Dave Lee
John Leonard
Paul Lim
Arto Lintunen
Wayne Locke
Peter Locke
Danny Loke
Stefan Lord
John Lowe
Robert MacKenzie
Jim McGuigan
Fred McMullan
Alfred Moses
Rick Ney
Olaf Niess
Terry O'Dea
Frank Palko
Chris Parsonson
Tony Payne
John Phillips
Christer Pilblad
Ashoken Pillai
Leighton Rees
Noel Reyes
Kari Saukkonen
Horrie Seden
Kim-Meng Seon
Bob Sinnaeve
William Steinke, full name
Russell Stewart
Takao Tanida
Jean Troadec
Tapani Uitos
Dan Valletto
Keith Waddoups
Hiroshi Watanobe
Barry Whittaker
Jocky Wilson
Albert Woon
Rod Young
Mohd Yousff
Eddie de la Cruz
Callers Of WDF World Cup Men Teams 1985
WDF World Cup Men Teams 1985
Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
