Nickname The Iceman Name Alan Warriner-Little Laterality right-handed Home town Crosby | BDO 1985-1993 World Ch'ship Runner-up 1993 | |
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PDC 1993-2009 (Founding Member) | ||
World matchplay 2007 rd 1 john part v alan warriner little pt 1
Alan Warriner-Little (born Alan Warriner on 24 March 1962 in Lancaster, Lancashire) is an English former professional darts player. He currently lives in Crosby, Cumbria and played with the nickname The Iceman. He is a former World Grand Prix champion, and a former runner-up at the World Professional Darts Championship.
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- World matchplay 2007 rd 1 john part v alan warriner little pt 1
- World matchplay 2006 round 1 andy jenkins vs alan warriner little pt 1
- Darts career
- Personal life
- BDO
- PDC
- References
World matchplay 2006 round 1 andy jenkins vs alan warriner little pt 1
Darts career
Before coming to prominence as a darts professional, Warriner-Little appeared as a contestant in a 1987 edition of the ITV gameshow Bullseye whilst working as a psychiatric nurse at a Lancaster hospital.
He made his World Championship debut in 1989, losing a second-round match to Jocky Wilson in a sudden death leg, after missing 8 match darts, with Wilson going on to win the tournament for his second World Championship. Warriner reached the quarter-finals in 1991 and 1992, before reaching his first World Final in 1993 - but he lost 3-6 to John Lowe. This form took him to the top of the world rankings.
He joined the top players in the game when they separated from the BDO after that 1993 final.
He has a consistent record in the PDC World Championship - reaching the quarter-finals seven times (1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2006) and the semi-finals twice (1999 and 2003).
He won the 2001 World Grand Prix and also recorded the highest 3-dart average with a double start (106.45) which he did in the first round of that tournament. As well as that he was runner-up in this event in 2004. He also was runner-up in the World Matchplay in 1997 and 2000, as well as in the World Masters in 1998.
Personal life
Warriner was married to his first wife, Joanne, from 1987 to 1992, and married to his second wife, Kim, from 1992 to 2003. He married his third wife, Brenda Little, in the summer of 2005, and changed his name from Alan Warriner to Alan Warriner-Little.