| 2001 Skol World Darts Championship | |||
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| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 28 December 2000 – 3 January 2001 | ||
| Venue | Circus Tavern | ||
| Location | Purfleet, Essex, England | ||
| Organisation(s) | Professional Darts Corporation | ||
| Format | Sets Final – best of 13 | ||
| Prize fund | £125,000 | ||
| Winner's share | £33,000 | ||
| High checkout | 167  Phil Taylor | ||
| Champion(s) | |||
| Phil Taylor | |||
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The 2001 PDC World Darts Championship (officially the 2001 Skol World Darts Championship) was a professional darts tournament held from 28 December 2000 and 3 January 2001 at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex, England. It was the eighth staging of the competition since the 1994 competition. The competition was the first of 34 Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments in the 2001 season. The tournament was broadcast on Sky Sports and was sponsored by Skol.
Phil Taylor, the tournament's defending champion, whitewashed the competition's first non-British finalist John Part 7–0 in the final. It was Taylor's seventh consecutive championship and his ninth overall since his first success in the 1990 BDO world championship. He defeated Nigel Justice, Les Fitton, Keith Deller and Dave Askew en route to the final. Taylor achieved the competition's highest checkout of 167 in the third set of the final against Part.