WDF World Cup Women Pairs 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.

Due to the absence of these countries, the tournament is of course somewhat devalued, yet the pairs tournament yields a number of fantastic matches. When the pre-tournament favourites; Aileen de Graaf and Sharon Prins lose in the last 16 to Belgium, the tournament is wide open. In the semi-finals there are four pairs from four different countries.

The Finnish duo Kirsi Viinikainen and Kaisu Rekinen have to bow to the superiority of Russians Anastasia Dobromyslova and Marina Kononova. Robyn Byrne and Caroline Breen from Ireland win in a ninth and deciding leg against the "other" Dutch pair Anca Zijlstra and Vanessa Zuidema. The final is a one-sided affair. The experience of Anastasia Dobromyslova is the deciding factor on the big stage. After she had claimed the WDF World Cup pairs title in 2007 with Irina Armstrong on her side, she manages to repeat that piece of art ten years later. The result of the final is 6-1 in favour of the Russian ladies.

The Irish ladies never took a silver medal in the pairs ever before and were therefore certainly satisfied with this achievement.

WDF World Cup Women Pairs

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Competitors Of WDF World Cup Women Pairs 2017

Irina Armstrong

Asako Atarashi

Lisa Ayers

Sylvie Ballieu

Sanyogita Banjare

Gitte Banke

Kim Bellay-Rousselle

Sharon Prins

Caroline Breen

Daniela Büel

Robyn Byrne

Natalie Carter

Janine Cassar

Marzia Catino

Athena Chan

Ekaterina Cherkasova

Esther Cho

Hye-Jin Choi

Giada Ciofi

Jitka Císařová

Grace Crane

Aastha Dalal

Rachna David

Patricia De Peuter

Carine Dessein

Anastasia Dobromyslova

Patricia Farrell

Natalia Fefilova

Judy Fenton

Sandra Ferguson

Anna Forsmark

Carole Frison

Dianne Gobeil

Corrine Hammond

Iselin Hauen

Olivia Hendricks

Carole Herriott

Anna Hlavová

Henriette Honoré

Maud Jansson

Trudy Johnson

Marika Juhola

Karina Kaenzig

Taylor-Marsh Kahaki

Jana Kanovska

Mana Kawakami

Tori Kewish

A-Reum Kim

Marina Kononova

Janni Larsen

Dorothee Lemaire

Cathy Leung

Shinetsetseg Lkhagvasuren

Silke Lowe

Teresa Maher

Asia Marini

Aneesha Mehta

Wallace Mok

Ramona Mostad-Eriksen

Paula Murphy

Sari Sauvola

Jackie O'Neill

Kayleigh O'Neill

Johanna Oosthuizen

Tina Osborne

Barbara Osti

Vicky Pruim

Ongonsar Purev

Jargalsaikhan Purevdorj

Georgina Ratt

Kaisu Rekinen

Steffi Rennoch-Zwitkowitsch

Colette Rudin

Angela Russell

Naomi Saito

Tumentogtokh Samdan

Berit Schouw