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2003
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1st Gibraltar Open Darts Tournament
a big success
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a worrying start, caused mainly by very long frontier queues, the
recent Kronenbourg 1664 Open Darts Tournament proved to be very successful.
With 160 entries, it was always going to be a tough competition to
win, and so it proved for all the local players. |
Open winner Mark Jones receiving his trophy from
Sports Minister Clive Beltran |
Despite
some excellent individual games, the best we could manage was to reach
board finals – unfortunately there were to be no local heroes.
Of all
the local players, some sympathy must go to George Federico, who
went out in the second game despite hitting five 180’s.
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the end though, it was the visitors who took all the glory (and the
prizes), with eventual winner Mark Jones pulling out all the stops
to beat seventeen year old Kirk Shepherd in the semi-final 4-2, and
then defeat this year’s Torremolinos champion Andy Gudgeon by
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Runner-up Andy Gudgeon receives his trophy |
Without
a doubt this competition has given our players valuable experience
in top class darts, and we now hope to make this an annual event.
We have made a few mistakes, which we will put right, and we are sure
that next year’s competition will be even bigger and better. |
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Semi-finalist Steve Penney |
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Semi-finalist Kirk Shepherd |
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Most successful lady entry Val Griffiths |
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PLAYER
RESULTS
Last 32 Results:
1st Mark Jones
2nd Andy Gudgeon
3rd/4th Kirk
Shepherd, Steve Penney
5th –
8th Alan Carrington, Chris Bolam, Thomas Cordery, D. Box
9th –
16th Simon Laws, Les Delderfield, S. Foale, Mark Talbot, W. Shergold,
Ray Nichols, John Utting, Craig Quinn
17th –
32nd Steve Skinner, Lee Gladman, P. Williams, Kevin Phaup, Mario
Agius, Francis Taylor, Dean Payas, Ian Cowans, Vic Sexton, Chris
Mills, Justin Broton, Justin Stagno, Craig Mucklow, Angel Debono,
Chris Smart, Tony Dawkins
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Last 32:
Mario Agius, Justin
Broton, Tony
Dawkins, Angel
Debono, Dean
Payas, Justin Stagno, Craig
Mucklow & Francis
Taylor.
33-64:
Eric Segui, George Federico, Amos Bossano, Dyson Parody, Carl Thomas,
Adam Orfila, David Santos, Manolo Rodriguez, Erica Ward, Sue Parody,
Danny Peach and Joseph Sanchez.
180’s recorded:
George Federico (5), Francis Taylor (4), Eric Segui (2), Leslie
Ward (1), Kevin Negron (1) & David Santos (1).
Thanks to everyone who helped to make this event a success, by working
before, during and after it.
Thanks too must
go to the Eliott Hotel, Saccone & Speed, Gache & Co and
all the sponsors who advertised in our souvenir programmes, and
of course Clive Beltran, the Minister of Sport who so kindly presented
the prizes
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