| Lakeside World Darts Championship | |||
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| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 7–15 January 2012 | ||
| Venue | Lakeside Country Club | ||
| Location | Frimley Green, Surrey | ||
| Country | England, United Kingdom | ||
| Organisation(s) | BDO | ||
| Format | Sets Finals: best of 13 (men's) best of 3 (women's) | ||
| Prize fund | £329,000 | ||
| Winner's share | £100,000 (men's) £10,000 (women's) | ||
| High checkout | Men: O'Shea (170) QF Women: Edwards (155) Rd 1 | ||
| Champion(s) | |||
Men:  Christian KistWomen:  Anastasia Dobromyslova | |||
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The 2012 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 35th BDO World Darts Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 27th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. It took place from January 7th to January 15th.
The tournament was won by Christian Kist, an unseeded qualifier who was making his début at the event; Kist beat Tony O'Shea 7–5 in the final. Two-time defending champion Martin Adams lost in the quarter-finals against O'Shea.[1][2]
The defending women's champion Gulliver, a nine-time winner of the event, lost in the semi-finals to Anastasia Dobromyslova. Dobromyslova then beat Deta Hedman in the final to win her second world title.[3]
It was the first time that neither champion was from Great Britain (Christian Kist from the Netherlands and Anastasia Dobromyslova from Russia), despite both losing finalists coming from England (Tony O'Shea and Deta Hedman).
Both men's semi-finals were the subject of controversy. In the first, between Ted Hankey and Christian Kist, Hankey complained repeatedly about the air conditioning at the venue, claiming it was blowing his darts off course. Hankey later alleged that this was done deliberately, as he would be joining the PDC after the tournament.[4] This was days after a similar incident at the rival PDC World Championship, which led to Adrian Lewis and James Wade walking off the stage due to a draft. Referring to that incident, Martin Adams, a BDO board member, had said before the Lakeside event started: “I can promise there will be no gusts of wind blowing across the stage.” Then, in the second semi-final, between Tony O'Shea and Wesley Harms, the players left the stage so the board could be replaced following 23 bounce outs.[5]
Players from five countries including a record number of eight Dutch players took part in the tournament.
- ^ "Champion Martin Adams retains BDO darts crown". BBC. 9 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
- ^ "BDO World Championships: Tony O'Shea beats Martin Adams". BBC. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
- ^ "BDO World Championships: Dobromyslova claims world title". BBC. 13 January 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
- ^ "BDO World Championship : Ted Hankey quits BDO after Kist defeat". BBC. 14 January 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ "Ted Hankey's switch from BDO to PDC is just the latest in a long line of defections in darts' cold war". The Telegraph. 15 January 2012.