WDF World Cup Men Pairs 2013

In 1989 Canada already hosted the WDF World Cup, when it was played in Toronto, in 2013 Saint Johns on the Eastern tip of the country was chosen as host city. Because some of the European and Asian teams were missing, the figures are a bit lagging behind on previous years. It will also be the last WDF World Cup for Norwegian Roy Price in his capacity as chairman of the WDF.

There were 27 men's teams, 25 women's teams and 11 youth teams present at this nineteenth WDF World Cup. All major countries on paper were there to compete in the Sports NL Center from 1 to 5 October. Among them, the men of Jersey for the first time.

Stephen Bunting & Tony O'Shea win this edition of the pairs tournament. In itself that is not surprising, beforehand the English duo were already among the favourites. However, there are plenty of surprises. What about the duo Robin Albury & Anderson Lewis from the Bahamas? They successively beat Ireland, Australia and Sweden to only lose in the quarterfinals against another surprise; the South African pair Christo Meiring & Tinus Grobbelaar.

The South Africans themselves easily beat Iceland, Germany, Canada and the aforementioned men of the Bahamas. Until the semi-finals they only lose two legs. In the semi-finals, the duo Glen Durrant & Scott Waites are their opponent, but the English are also beaten. It finishes 5-3 for Grobbelaar and Meiring. In the other semi-final, Bunting & O'Shea win in a deciding leg against Welsh pair Jonny Clayton & David Smith-Hayes.

The final is played a few days after the floor matches and that suits Stephen Bunting & Tony O'Shea. They have much more experience on stage and the South Africans Christo Meiring & Tinus Grobbelaar never get into the flow they had before and lose 0-6.

It is the twelfth victory for an English pair in a WDF World Cup, O'Shea successfully defends the title that he also won two years earlier. South Africa takes its second ever pairs medal, after a bronze medal in 1999.

WDF World Cup Men Pairs

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Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Pairs 2013

Katsuya Aiba

Robin Albury

Vladimir Andersen

Mats Andersson

Seigo Asada

James Bailey

Sky Bain

Craig Baxter

Andy Bless

Thomas Bremgartner

Stephen Bunting

Kevin Burness

Larry Butler

David Cameron

Philip Carson

Edson Chaves

Earle Chimming

Jonny Clayton

Thomas Coleman

Andrea Contino

Wayne Copeland

Tito Cox

Jason Cullen

Vernon Daniels

Rune David

Gordon Dixon

Glen Durrant

Vivekanand Dyal

Rodger Edwards

Lennart Efraimsson

Gary Elliott

Vegar Elvevoll

Steve Eusebini

Spencer Field

Anthony Forde

Rocco Fulciniti

James Fulford

Sidney Garland

Cemal Gingi

Mark Griffith

Tinus Grobbelaar

Troy Hanlon

Robert Hansen

Wesley Harms

Rick Hofstra

Glenn Honoré

Kevin Jacob

Frede Johansen

Karl-Helgi Jonsson

Stig Jorgensen

Dhayaprakash Julal

Thomas Junghans

Engin Kayaoglu

Karsten Koch

Daniel Larsson

Anderson Lewis

Eric Lewis

Peter Machin

Keith Malcolm

Salvatore Mantarro

Stephen McDonnell

Sean McGowan

Terry McNulty

Christo Meiring

Justin Miles

Ross Montgomery

Roy Montgomery

Dave Moore

Clyde Murrell

Dennis Nilsson

Asko Niskala

Vesa Nuutinen

Tony O'Shea

Arnar Oddsson

Martin Phillips

Robbie Phillips

Rene Pohl