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
Paul Nicholson (darts player) Paul Nicholson (darts player) Paul Michael Nicholson (born 10 May 1979) is a British-Australian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events. He has won a major event, the 2010 Players Championship Finals, where he defeated Mervyn King in the final. He was also the runner up to Phil Taylor in the 2011 Championship League Darts, and part of the Australia team which lost a sudden death shoot-out to England in the 2012 PDC World Cup of Darts final. Before joining the PDC Pro Tour, Nicholson was one of the top players in the Australian Grand Prix circuit,