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Nickname
  
The Iceman

Name
  
Alan Warriner-Little

Laterality
  
right-handed

Home town
  
Crosby

BDO
  
1985-1993

Playing darts since
  
1980

World Ch'ship
  
Runner-up 1993


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Born
  
24 March 1962 (age 61) Lancaster, Lancashire, England (
1962-03-24
)

Walk-on music
  
PDC
  
1993-2009 (Founding Member)

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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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Darts career

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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.

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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.

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He joined the top players in the game when they separated from the BDO after that 1993 final.

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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.

BDO

  • 1989: Second Round (lost to Jocky Wilson 2-3)
  • 1990: First Round (lost to Mike Gregory 0-3)
  • 1991: Quarter Final (lost to Bob Anderson 3-4)
  • 1992: Quarter Final (lost to Kevin Kenny 0-4)
  • 1993: Final (lost to John Lowe 3-6)
  • PDC

  • 1994: Quarter Final (lost to Steve Brown 3-4)
  • 1995: Last 24 Group (finished second in Group 4 behind Dennis Smith)
  • 1996: Quarter Final (lost to Dennis Priestley 1-4)
  • 1997: Quarter Final (lost to Eric Bristow 3-5)
  • 1998: Last 24 Group (finished bottom in Group 8)
  • 1999: Semi Final (lost to Phil Taylor 3-5)
  • 2000: Quarter Final (lost to Phil Taylor 0-5)
  • 2001: Quarter Final (lost to John Part 1-4)
  • 2002: Second Round (lost to Colin Lloyd 4-6)
  • 2003: Semi Final (lost to Phil Taylor 1-6)
  • 2004: Quarter Final (lost to Phil Taylor 1-5)
  • 2005: Third Round (lost to Paul Williams 1-4)
  • 2006: Quarter Final (lost to Wayne Mardle 0-5)
  • 2007: First Round (lost to Alan Tabern 0-3)
  • 2008: Second Round (lost to Peter Manley 1-4)
  • References

    Alan Warriner-Little Wikipedia