WDF World Cup Men Teams 2009

In 2009, the United States are elected host for the third time. After previous two editions in Las Vegas in 1979 and 1993, it is now Charlotte's turn in North Carolina. The Blake Hotel is the venue where will be played from September 23-25. New faces on stage for the first time in a long time. Richard Ashdown and Jacques Nieuwlaat replace Martin Fitzmaurice as host on behalf of the WDF from 2009.

It will be a very relaxed WDF World Cup in beautiful weather conditions, with 32 men's, 31 women's and 10 youth teams competing for the medals. The Cayman Islands are making their debut. Besides the Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos, Trinidad & Tobago, Bermuda, Bahamas and Barbados are also present and this ensures that this WDF World Cup also gets a real Caribbean feel to it.

The team tournament of the WDF World Cup 2009 starts immediately with fireworks in the group phase. There are a few very strong groups and that means that we also say goodbye to a number of strong countries after the group stage. Belgium gets knocked out in the group with the Netherlands and Canada. In the group that includes Australia, Scotland and New Zealand, it is New Zealand that loses out. WDF European team champions Denmark also surprisingly exit in the group stage, Ireland and Northern Ireland both continue as the Vikings pack their bags.

In the last 16, the biggest surprise follows, Scotland knocks England out of the tournament and with that the feeling is that the tournament is open for everyone to win. Other strong countries such as Finland, Sweden, the United States and Wales also lose this round. In the semi-finals, Canada plays against Northern Ireland and The Netherlands face the Republic of Ireland. Canadians Ken MacNeil, Jerry Hull, Clint Clarkson & Bernie Miller beat Northern Ireland's John Elder, Daryl Gurney, Gary Elliott & Glen Rodney 9-6. The Dutch quartet Frans Harmsen, Joey ten Berge, Willy van de Wiel & Daniel Brouwer score the same result against the Irish Connie Finnan, Martin McCloskey, Stephen McDonnell & Sean Wilson, making the final the Netherlands against Canada.

In the final, the Netherlands quickly builds up a big lead and they don't give that lead away anymore. Frans Harmsen, Joey ten Berge, Willy van de Wiel & Daniel Brouwer take the gold medal. Surprisingly, this is only the first gold medal for a Dutch team at a WDF World Cup in the team event. With this victory, the Dutch quartet also takes the overall title.

WDF World Cup Men Teams

About WDF World Cup Men Teams 2009

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Teams 2009

Øyvind Aasland

Martin Adams

Daisuke Akamatsu

Toni Alcinas

Bahadir Alev

John Almeida

Alfonso Alvaro

Kyle Anderson

Beau Anderson

Tobias Anliker

Koji Aoki

Eddie Ballantyne

Pascal Barbezat

Mark Barilli

Ryan Barnette

Søren Behrendsen

Aegir Bjornsson

Brian Blake

Roman Bleistein

Daniel Brouwer

Harry Brown

Steve Brown

Winston Cadogan

Richard Campbell

Wayne Carey

Magnus Caris

Simon Carruthers

Luca Catallo

Richard Cedeno

Ulf Ceder

Joseph Clairines

Clint Clarkson

Sammy Cruz

Mark Cummins

Vernon Daniels

Lloyd Deveaux

Vivekanand Dyal

Hank Ebanks

John Elder

Gary Elliott

Vegar Elvevoll

Salvador Escarbajal

Harry Famaey

Connie Finnan

Aevar Finnsson

Darryl Fitton

Anthony Fleet

Marco Framboas

Martyn Freeman

Rhen Fuentes

James Fulford

Tony Fulford

Sidney Garland

Thorgeir Gudmundsson

Daryl Gurney

Frans Harmsen

John Henderson

Antonio Hibernon-Cano

Steven Hickmott

Jerry Hull

Kim Huybrechts

Ronny Huybrechts

Throsdur Ingimarsson

Kevin Jacob

Frede Johansen

Sylvan Jones

Stig Jorgensen

Marko Kantele

Geoff Kime

Karsten Koch

Willy Kolly

Jarkko Komula

Roman Konchikov

Preben Krabben

Andreas Krockel

Jacques Langston

Daniel Larsson