Cody Harris (born 10 October 1985) is a former New Zealand
darts
Darts or dart-throwing is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed missiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard.
Points can be scored by hitting specific marked areas of the ...
player.
Career
Harris comes from a family of dartplayers. His father ran the ACDC Dart Club and Harris watched as a child his parents and other family members when they played. When
Eric Bristow
Eric John Bristow, (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018), nicknamed "The Crafty Cockney", was an English professional darts player.
He was ranked World No. 1 by the World Darts Federation a record five times, in 1980, 1981 and 1983–1985. He was ...
came to New Zealand for the
WDF World Cup
The WDF World Cup is a major darts tournament organized by the World Darts Federation and has been held biennially since 1977. The tournament has featured men's events since the beginning, while women's events were added in 1983 and youth events in ...
, Harris' father played against him and won. When Harris was around eight years old he for the first time threw a dart.
When Harris was nine he won the A grade Championship for the Auckland Darts Association and he for the first time took part in the national championship when he was 13. Many national successes followed including the win in the
2015 Sydney Darts Masters
The 2015 Sydney Darts Masters was the third staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation, as a fourth entry in the 2015 World Series of Darts. The tournament featured 16 players (eight top PDC Players facing eight regional quali ...
Qualifier and the National Championship 2015. Internationally, his biggest success so far was the last 32 of the
Winmau World Masters
The World Masters is one of the longest-running and most prestigious of the BDO/WDF tournaments, which began in 1974. The tournament is sponsored by darts board manufacturer, Winmau. The World Masters was unusual in darts in that its sets are th ...
in 2015 where he lost to
Scott Waites
Scott Waites (born 17 February 1977) is an English professional darts player who plays in tournaments of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). He is a two-time BDO World Darts Champion having won the 2013 tournament and 2016 tournamen ...
3–0.
In 2016, he represented New Zealand together along with
Warren Parry in the
PDC World Cup of Darts. They played Scotland (consisting of
Gary Anderson and
Robert Thornton), and after breaking the throw with a 125 checkout, he and Parry led 3–1, before Scotland won four legs in a row to win 5–3. At the
2017 event, Harris and
Rob Szabo were eliminated 5–2 by Belgium in the opening round.
Harris entered the 2018
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Q-School.
World Championship results
PDC
* 2018: 1st Round (lost to
Ian White 1–3)
* 2019: 2nd Round (lost to
Jamie Lewis 2–3)
Performance timeline
PDC
References
External links
Cody Harrisat Darts Database
New Zealand darts players
Living people
Professional Darts Corporation associate players
1985 births
PDC World Cup of Darts team New Zealand
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