1997 WDC World Darts Championship most successful players of all-time. The prize fund was £98,000. Peter Evison (4) 4 – 2 Eric Bristow This table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship. Four countries were represented in the World Championship, one less than in the previous championship. 1997 WDC World Darts Championship The 1996/1997 Red Band World Darts Championship was held between 29 December 1996 and 5 January 1997 at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex. It was the fourth World Championship organised by the World Darts Council, which had acrimoniously split from the British Darts Organisation in 1992–93. As a
Anthony Forde (darts player) Forde was denied a third visit to the World Championship after losing in the final of the 2009 Caribbean and South American Masters to 2003 champion Norman Madhoo of Guyana. Forde runner up the 2018 WDF Americas Cup beat to Robin Albury 1–4. Anthony Forde (darts player) Anthony Forde (born July 6, 1962 in Bridgetown) is a Barbadian professional darts player who currently in the British Darts Organisation events. Forde won the 2004 Caribbean and South American Masters which earned him a place in the 2005 PDC World Darts Championship where he lost in the first round to John Verwey.