WDF World Cup Women Pairs 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 women's pairs are won by the English duo Lisa Ashton & Karen Lawman-Smith. They beat the Swedish ladies Carina Ekberg & Maud Jansson who have to settle for silver for the second time in a row. For England the eighth time that they write this event to their name. The English ladies are really tested a number of times on their road to the title. In the group stage a seventh and deciding leg is needed to beat Finland and this is also the case in the quarterfinals against the USA. Julie Gore & Rhian Edwards from Wales even win four legs against the English tandem in the semi-finals, but for the first time in history that semi-final is best of nine legs and so Ashton and Lawman-Smith survive here too. The final does yield a clear 6-2 and the gold medal.

In addition to Wales, it is Finland that also wins a bronze medal. Tarja Salminen & Kirsi Viinikainen also lose their semi-final in a ninth and deciding leg against the Swedish ladies. Carina Ekberg now has a beautiful silver collection. It is her fourth silver medal in the pairs, she is yet to win the gold.

WDF World Cup Women Pairs

About WDF World Cup Women Pairs 2009

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Women Pairs 2009

Neslihan Algul-Diniz

Irina Armstrong

Yukari Asano

Lisa Ashton

Louise Ball

Wendy Beutels

Stacy Bromberg

Nanette Brooks

Elisa Brunetti

Rose-Marie Bussard

Loli Cascales

Janine Cassar

Denise Cassidy

Isi Chaparro

Grace Crane

Angela De Ward

Carina Ekberg

Sandra Ferguson

Lise-Gro Finnestad

Gretel Flores

Mette Funch

Dianne Gobeil

Julie Gore

Elisa Gregory

Marianne Halvorsen

Cindy Hayhurst

Louise Hepburn

Elizabeth Hickmott

Francis Hoenselaar

Maud Jansson

Heike Jenkins

Danzella Jennings

Trudy Johnson

Fabienne Jolly

Jannette Jonathan

Sigridur-Gudrun Jonsdottir

Duygu Karaca

Karin Krappen

Janni Larsen

Karen Lawman

Linda Locke

Eloise Martin

Pam Massiah

Susanna McGimpsey

Emma Migrino

Marion Morgan

Karina Nagapetynts-Kaenzig

Nicole O'Donovan

Rhian O'Sullivan

Mayumi Ouchi

Marilyn Popp

Renate Rangel

Isabel Roxo

Tarja Salminen

Maureen Shepherd

Susan Simons

Delphine Simons

Elinborg Steinunnardottir

Bianka Strauch

Michelle Terry

Kirsi Viinikainen

Eveline van Rentherghem

Callers Of WDF World Cup Women Pairs 2009

Jacques Nieuwlaat

Richard Ashdown

WDF World Cup Women Pairs 2009