WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2016

From 20 to 24 September, the twentieth edition of the WDF Europe Cup was held in the Dutch seaside town of Egmond aan Zee. In the men’s event 32 different countries toe the oche, which is a new record for the WDF Europe Cup. Six countries leave their ladies at home, but this still means a very strong field of 26 countries in the ladies. In hotel Zuiderduin, for years the setting for the Zuiderduin/Finder Masters the NDB and WDF put together a fantastic tournament, which runs very smoothly.

From the 2015 WDF World Cup Nick Rolls joined the WDF team as one of the officials on stage alongside “Little” Richard Ashdown and Jacques Nieuwlaat, so 2016 is his first WDF Europe Cup. The Dutch Darts Association NDB is hosting this tournament for the third time, they also organized the WDF Europe Cup in The Hague in 1984 and Veldhoven in 2000. Welshman Martin Phillips participates for the thirteenth and last time in this event and is the record holder. Malta is returning to the WDF Europe Cup family for their first Cup since 2000. There are no debutants this year.

Richard Veenstra becomes the third Dutchman, after Co Stompé and Raymond van Barneveld, to win WDF Europe Cup singles. It was a surprising year in 2016 with fourteen different nationalities in the last 16 and eight in the quarterfinals.

Perhaps even more striking is the lack of an Englishman or a Scot in the last 16. Veenstra beats the Maltese player Norbert Attard in the semi-finals who makes history becoming the first player in history to win a medal for that country. In the other semi-final, Welshman Jim Williams proves too strong for Sweden’s Andreas Harryson. The final is one of high level and won 7-5 by the Dutchman.

WDF Europe Cup Men Singles

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Competitors Of WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2016

Tony Alanentalo

Josep Arimany

Carlos Arola

Norbert Attard

Aco Babic

Mindaugas Barauskas

Tom Becker

Yoann Belchun

Cyril Blot

Justin Broton

Tom Burquel

Vincent Busuttil

Luca Catallo

Ulf Ceder

Krzysztof Chmielewski

Mogens Christensen

Cor Dekker

Neil Duff

Glen Durrant

Grzegorz Dzialkowski

Nikolas Economou

Halgrímur Egilsson

Vegar Elvevoll

Steve Eusebini

George Federico

Oliver Ferenc

Ian Fields

John Flood

Jorge Fonseca

David Francis

Adrian Frim

Chris Gilliland

Nauris Gleglu

Krzysztof Gontarewicz

Thorgeir Gudmundsson

Vitor Charrua

Wayne Halliwell

Wesley Harms

Wayne Harrison

Andreas Harrysson

Lars Helsinghof

Marcel Hirzel

Jamie Hughes

James Hurrell

Throsdur Ingimarsson

Raul Invernon

Ugnius Jankúnas

Roger Janssen

Alex-B Jensen

Pavel Jirkal

Laszlo Kadar

Marko Kantele

Paul Kelly

Nick Kenny

Dejan Kovacevic

Patrik Kovacs

Gerasimos Krontiris

Osvaldas Ksanys

Darius Labanauskas

Jacques Labre

Daniel Larsson

Sebastien Lemmer

Steve Lennon

Oskar Lukasiak

Kyle McKinstry

Michael Meaney

Zsolt Meszaros

Ulrich Meyn

Steven Miles

Jakub Milo

Scott Mitchell

Ross Montgomery

Razyan Negot

Robert Nelson

Asko Niskala

David O'Connor

Michal Ondo