# 2018 BDO World Darts Championship
The 2018 [BDO World Darts Championship](https://www.edgepedia.org/bdo-world-darts-championship) was the 41st staging of the [British Darts Organisation](https://www.edgepedia.org/british-darts-organisation)'s world professional darts tournament, held from January 6 to January 14, 2018, at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey. [Glen Durrant](https://www.edgepedia.org/glen-durrant) retained the men's title by defeating Mark McGeeney 7-6 in the final, and Lisa Ashton retained the women's title by beating Anastasia Dobromyslova 3-1, winning her fourth world championship.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Dates and venue | January 6-14, 2018, Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) |
| Staging | 41st edition of the BDO World Championship[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) |
| Men's champion | Glen Durrant (1st seed), beat Mark McGeeney (2nd seed) 7-6 in the final[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) |
| Women's champion | Lisa Ashton (4th seed), beat Anastasia Dobromyslova (6th seed) 3-1; her fourth world title[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) |
| Youth champion | Justin van Tergouw, beat Killian Heffernan 3-1[2](https://www.dartn.de/bdo_weltmeisterschaft_2018/) |
| Men's prize fund | £300,000 total, £100,000 to the winner[3](https://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/display-event.php?eda=&eid=21470&tna=BDO+World+Championship) • [4](https://www.darts1.de/dart-wm/lakeside-dart-wm-startzeiten-2018.php) |
| Television | Channel 4 (afternoon sessions) and BT Sport (evening sessions); both showed the final live[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) |
## Tournament overview
The event ran over nine days with men's, women's, and youth competitions. The men's draw of 32 players included a preliminary round, with matches expanding in length as the tournament progressed: the first round was played over the best of 5 sets, the second round the best of 7, the quarter-finals the best of 9, the semi-finals the best of 11, and the final the best of 13 sets.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) The women's matches were played over the best of 3 sets until the final, which was the best of 5.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
One change came before a dart was thrown: 15th seed James Hurrell withdrew due to ill health and was replaced in the draw by Richie Edwards.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) Defending champion Durrant entered as bookmakers' favorite at 11/10, while the BDO's world-ranked number one, Mark McGeeney, was quoted at 22/1.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
## Men's competition
**Early rounds.** Top seed Durrant opened with a 3-0 first-round win over Gary Robson and then beat 16th seed Darryl Fitton 4-1 in the second round.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) McGeeney, the second seed, survived a 3-2 first-round match against the three-time former champion Martin Adams before beating Danny Noppert 4-1.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) Unseeded Michael Unterbuchner of Germany, who had come through the preliminary round, eliminated third seed Jamie Hughes 3-2 and then beat 14th seed Martin Phillips 4-2.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
**Quarter-finals.** Durrant edged ninth seed Jim Williams 5-4, two-time champion Scott Waites beat 13th seed Andy Baetens 5-4, McGeeney defeated Wayne Warren 5-4, and Unterbuchner continued his run by beating 11th seed Richard Veenstra 5-4.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
**Semi-finals.** Durrant produced the most one-sided match of the last four, beating two-time champion Scott Waites 6-2 with a 96.61 three-dart average, six maximums of 180, and a 42 percent checkout rate, against Waites's 94.14 average and 25 percent conversion.[5](https://joshsdartistry.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/bdo-world-championship-2018-day-eight-report/) McGeeney beat Unterbuchner 6-4 to end the German's run one step short of the final.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
**Final.** The final between the top two seeds was close throughout. McGeeney led in sets four times, and Durrant did not lead at all until the ninth set, when a break of throw put him ahead for the first time after 32 legs of play.[6](https://www.dartn.de/news/glen-durrant-ist-bdo-dart-weltmeister-2018/) Durrant closed out a 7-6 win to retain the title and collect the £100,000 first prize.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) • [4](https://www.darts1.de/dart-wm/lakeside-dart-wm-startzeiten-2018.php)
## Women's competition
The women's draw of eight seeded players and qualifiers was played alongside the men's rounds. Fourth seed [Lisa Ashton](https://www.edgepedia.org/lisa-ashton), the defending champion, beat Rhian Griffiths 2-0, then eliminated 2015 finalist [Fallon Sherrock](https://www.edgepedia.org/fallon-sherrock) 2-0 in the second round and top seed Deta Hedman 2-0 in the semi-finals.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) Sixth seed Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia, a former champion, beat Lorraine Winstanley and seven-time champion Trina Gulliver, both 2-0, to reach the final.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
In the final on January 13, Ashton won 3-1 with an 89.80 three-dart average and a 41 percent checkout rate, taking her fourth women's world title in five years.[5](https://joshsdartistry.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/bdo-world-championship-2018-day-eight-report/) • [7](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/15/one-hundred-and-eighty-a-darts-photo-essay) Her £12,000 winner's prize was part of a women's prize fund of £29,000, against the men's £300,000.[4](https://www.darts1.de/dart-wm/lakeside-dart-wm-startzeiten-2018.php)
## Youth competition
The BDO World Youth Championship final was staged at the Lakeside during the main event, with Justin van Tergouw beating Killian Heffernan 3-1.[2](https://www.dartn.de/bdo_weltmeisterschaft_2018/)
## Prize money and broadcasting
The men's prize fund was recorded as £300,000 by the Darts Database, while Sporting Life reported a total fund of £339,000 including the women's and other events; both agree the men's winner received £100,000 and the women's champion £12,000.[3](https://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/display-event.php?eda=&eid=21470&tna=BDO+World+Championship) • [1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) • [4](https://www.darts1.de/dart-wm/lakeside-dart-wm-startzeiten-2018.php) The men's breakdown paid £35,000 to the runner-up, £15,000 to each semi-finalist, £6,500 to each quarter-finalist, £4,500 for a second-round exit, £3,250 for a first-round exit, and £2,000 for the preliminary round.[4](https://www.darts1.de/dart-wm/lakeside-dart-wm-startzeiten-2018.php) A £5,000 bonus was available for the highest checkout.[4](https://www.darts1.de/dart-wm/lakeside-dart-wm-startzeiten-2018.php)
[Channel 4](https://www.edgepedia.org/channel-4) televised the afternoon sessions on free-to-air television and BT Sport the evening sessions, with both channels showing the final live; 2018 was the first year of this Channel 4 arrangement for the tournament.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
## Context in the tournament's history
The BDO World Championship began in 1978, when [Leighton Rees](https://www.edgepedia.org/leighton-rees) beat John Lowe 11-7 in legs in the final; the tournament moved to the Lakeside Country Club in 1986 and remained there through 2019.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) • [8](https://www.lakesideworlddarts.co.uk/bdo-world-champions-list/) Durrant's 2018 win was his second consecutive title, and he completed a third in 2019, the last men's title won at the Lakeside.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) • [8](https://www.lakesideworlddarts.co.uk/bdo-world-champions-list/) The 2018 edition also fell in the period after the PDC's 1994 breakaway had drawn away the sport's leading players, and the tournament's prize scale reflected that position: the men's champion's £100,000 was a fraction of the sums available in the rival PDC championship held the previous month.[1](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978) • [9](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/14/lisa-ashton-pdc-world-championship-darts-alexandra-palace)
## References
1. [BDO World Darts Championships 2018: Lakeside draw, schedule, betting odds, results, Channel 4 TV coverage & tickets, Sporting Life](https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/bdo-world-darts-results/137978)
2. [Dart Turnier Archiv – Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship 2018, dartn.de](https://www.dartn.de/bdo_weltmeisterschaft_2018/)
3. [BDO World Championship 06/01/2018 - 14/01/2018, Darts Database](https://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/display-event.php?eda=&eid=21470&tna=BDO+World+Championship)
4. [Lakeside Dart WM 2018 - Startzeiten der BDO Weltmeisterschaft, darts1.de](https://www.darts1.de/dart-wm/lakeside-dart-wm-startzeiten-2018.php)
5. [BDO World Championship 2018: Day Eight Report, Josh's Dartistry](https://joshsdartistry.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/bdo-world-championship-2018-day-eight-report/)
6. [Glen Durrant ist BDO Dart Weltmeister 2018!, dartn.de](https://www.dartn.de/news/glen-durrant-ist-bdo-dart-weltmeister-2018/)
7. [One hundred and eighty - a darts photo essay, The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/15/one-hundred-and-eighty-a-darts-photo-essay)
8. [BDO World Darts Champions 1978–2020: Complete List, lakesideworlddarts.co.uk](https://www.lakesideworlddarts.co.uk/bdo-world-champions-list/)
9. [Lisa Ashton goes to the oche and the nuns go wild at the PDC World Darts, The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/14/lisa-ashton-pdc-world-championship-darts-alexandra-palace)
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