Pavel Drtil (born 18 February 1973) is a Czech amateur soft-tip and steel-tip darts player who played in World Darts Federation (WDF), Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and soft-tip international events. He is a two-time gold medalist in singles competitions at the EDU European Darts Championship and won a bronze medal at the WDF Europe Cup. He also represented the Czech Republic at the PDC World Cup of Darts and WDF World Cup.
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| Born | 18 February 1973 Trutnov, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Trutnov, Czech Republic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing darts since | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO | 2006–2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC | 2015–2020, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF | 2006–2014, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Masters | Last 64: 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editSince 2006, Drtil has participated four times in the Winmau World Masters. The best result was recorded in 2012, when he advanced to the third round.[1] He recorded his first significant success during the EDU European Darts Championship in 2010, when he won a gold medal in single cricket competition. On his way to the final, he defeated Boris Krčmar and in the final match he beat Kurt van de Rijck.[2]
In 2010, he was invited to participate in the 2010 PDC World Cup of Darts as a Czech Republic representative together with Martin Kapucian. Unfortunately, due to unfavorable weather conditions in Prague, they were unable to get to the tournament in England.[3] He got another chance to play in the Professional Darts Corporation tournament during 2016 PDC World Cup of Darts. This time he represented his country together with Michal Kočík. They ended their participation in the first round, lost to Yuanjun Liu and Wenge Xie from China, by 3–5 in legs.[4] In 2016, he won another medal at the EDU European Darts Championship in cricket singles competition.[5] In 2018, he won the gold medal in the singles competition, defeated El Abbas El Amri in the final match.[6]
In the following years, he took part in the qualifiers for the PDC European Tour tournaments several times, but without success. Until the 2024 Czech Darts Open, the last European tour on the calendar, he qualified through through the Czech Home nation qualifier, once he qualified he beat Joe Cullen in round 1,6-4, with an average of 84, round 2 he faced Josh Rock, which he won, 6-5.With an Average of 83, in round 3 he faced Kim Huybrechts and the score finished {[7]
Performance timeline
edit| Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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| World Masters | PR | DNQ | 2R | DNQ | 1R | DNQ | 3R | DNQ | |||
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| World Cup of Darts | NH | 1R | NH | DNQ | 1R | ||||||
References
edit- ^ "Pavel Drtil". World Darts Federation. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Posledních 21 let ME EDU na jednom místě". Unie šipkových organizací. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ "Czechs Out Of World Cup". PDC. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Čeští šipkaři na Čínu nestačili, favorit z Anglie se pořádně nadřel!". nova.cz. 4 June 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "EM 2016". European Dart Union. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ "EM 2018". European Dart Union. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ "Pavel Drtil". mastercaller.com. Retrieved 21 November 2022.