WDF World Cup Men Teams 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.

In the team event, besides a first singles gold for Canada and a first pair of gold for Russia, there is now a first team gold for Australia. Peter Machin, Justin Thompson, Raymond Smith and Andrew Townes play a virtually flawless tournament. The most difficult match is actually in the group phase against Russia, a match that is won 9-7.

After the group stage, Canada (9-3), New Zealand (9-4) and in the semi-final Norway (9-5) are simply set aside. The USA team is waiting in the final. They had a much harder path to the final. Victories over Italy (9-4), Finland (9-8) and the surprising Swiss (again 9-8) cost a lot of energy and in hindsight perhaps too much. The final will be a relatively simple prey for the Australians with 9-3.

It is the first time that Australia has taken the team title and also the first overall title. With some of the bigger countries missing, new countries get the chance to show themselves, and Norway and Switzerland benefit the most, both of them taking their first ever team medal.

WDF World Cup Men Teams

About WDF World Cup Men Teams 2017

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Teams 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