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
Ian White (darts player) Ian White (darts player) Ian White (born 17 August 1970) is an English professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events. In 1997, White reached the final of the PDC's revived News of the World Darts Championship. He defeated Peter Manley and Andy Jenkins on the way to the final, where he lost 0-2 to fellow Stoke-on-Trent native Phil Taylor. White won the Antwerp Open, Denmark Open and the English National Championship in 2009. He qualified for the 2010 BDO World Darts Championship, but lost 0-3 in the first round to Stephen Bunting. Shortly afterwards, he left the