About WDF World Cup Women Pairs 2011

Champion
WDF World Cup Ladies Pairs Photographer: Sijmon Timmers Deta Hedman Trina Gulliver-MBE

Castlebar in Ireland is the beautiful location for the eighteenth edition of the WDF World Cup. The world-famous Irish cordiality prevails and 38 countries make it a fascinating spectacle. 35 Women's team and 15 youth teams complete the line-up. The Breaffy House Resort, County Mayo, is the home of darts from September 20-24.

History is being written in Castlebar because England is the first country ever to win all three overall titles in one year. In addition, Catalonia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania get their first introduction to the unsurpassed WDF World Cup feeling.

Deta Hedman is back after a long absence from the English team and Trina Gulliver is hungry after a missed WDF World Cup two years earlier. Without any problem they go through the group phase and the first game in the knockout phase is won 4-2 against Cindy Pardy and Jenelle Legge from Canada. Two-time losing finalist Sweden, this time without Carina Ekberg is beaten 4-1 in the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals it is also Finland that beats the USA, the Netherlands beats Norway and Wales wins in a seventh and decisive leg against Japan.

In the semi-finals Deta Hedman & Trina Gulliver win 5-3 against Kirsi Viinikainen & Lumi Silvan from Finland. In the other semi-final, two other top pairs face each other Francis Hoenselaar & Karin Krappen from the Netherlands win this game 5-2 against Julie Gore & Rhian Edwards from Wales.

The English ladies and their major rivals from the Netherlands face each other in the final. Francis Hoenselaar & Karin Krappen make it extremely difficult for Deta Hedman & Trina Gulliver. It takes an eleventh and deciding leg, in which the English ladies are the strongest. The fourth time that Trina Gulliver wins the gold in the pairs. Deta Hedman also wins the gold in this event for the second time, after her victory in 1995.

Callers Of WDF World Cup Women Pairs 2011

WDF World Cup Women Pairs 2011

Breaffy House Resort in
Castlebar, IRL
Organizer:
World Darts Federation
Participants:
70
Start Date:
21 Sep 2011
End Date:
24 Sep 2011