Dates 7–15 January 2012 Location Frimley Green, Surrey | Venue Lakeside Country Club Organisation(s) BDO | |
Country England, United Kingdom Format Sets
Finals:
best of 13 (men's)
best of 3 (women's) | ||
The 2012 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 35th BDO World Darts Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 27th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. It ran from 7–15 January. Martin Adams was the defending men's champion, having won the title for the third time in the previous year's final against Dean Winstanley. The defending women's champion was Trina Gulliver, who won her ninth title in the 2011 final against Rhian Edwards.
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Neither champion was able to defend their title as Adams lost his quarter-final against Tony O'Shea and Gulliver her semi-final against Anastasia Dobromyslova. Dobromyslova then beat Deta Hedman in the final to win her second world championship title. O'Shea was defeated by unseeded qualifier Christian Kist, who was making his début in the tournament, 7–5 in the final. It was the first time that neither champion was from Great Britain (Christian Kist from the Netherlands and Anastasia Dobromyslova from Russia), despite both losing finalists coming from England (Tony O'Shea and Deta Hedman).
Players from five countries including a record number of eight Dutch players took part in the tournament.
Men's
The televised stages featured 32 players. The top 16 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2010/11 season were seeded for the tournament.
The 32 players who qualified for invitation into the first round proper of the men's singles were:
Women's
The televised stages featured 8 players. The top 4 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2010/11 season were seeded for the tournament.
The eight women qualified for invitation were:
Prize money
The prize money was £258,000 for the men's event and £16,000 for the women's event.
Men's Champion: £100,000 Runner-Up: £30,000 Semi-Finalists (2): £11,000 Quarter-Finalists (4): £6,000 Last 16 (8): £4,250 Last 32 (16): £3,000 Women's Champion: £10,000 Runner-Up: £2,000 Semi-Finalists (2): £1,000 Quarter-Finalists (4): £500There was also a shared 9 Dart Checkout prize of £52,000, along with a High Checkout prize of £3,000 per event.
Results bracket
The draw for the tournament was made on 7 November 2011 live on ESPN.
Men's
The results are:
Women's
The results are:
Broadcasting
The tournament was broadcast jointly in the UK by the BBC and ESPN. The BBC broadcast the afternoon session of the opening weekend, afternoon highlights from 9 to 13 January, the first semi final and the final. ESPN broadcast the evening session of the opening weekend, round two matches, the quarter finals, the second semi final and highlights of the final. The BBC's coverage was presented by Colin Murray with Bobby George being the pundit. ESPN's coverage was presented by Ray Stubbs and Nat Coombs. Commentary on both channels came from David Croft, Tony Green and Vassos Alexander. The tournament was also screened on Eurosport and Eurosport Asia in 99 other countries.