Tony Holyoake (born 28 January 1946) is an English-Canadian former professional
darts
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player who competed in the 1980s and 1990s.
Career
Holyoake played in the
1983 BDO World Darts Championship
The 1983 Embassy World Darts Championship was staged at Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent from 1–8 January 1983.
The tournament saw one of the World Darts Championship's biggest upsets, when Keith Deller defeated Eric Bristow, by 6 sets ...
, losing in the first round 2–1 to England's
Dave Lee.
Holyoake is also a former Canadian National Champion, winning the title in 1992. He has represented Canada on numerous occasions: Three World Cup Teams, two Pacific Cup Teams, all of the Canada v USA international matches except 1, 1980 Unipart World Team Darts Matchplay with
Allan Hogg and
Tony Foley to Canada, and most recently the
1996 PDC World Pairs Championship with
Gary Mawson
Gary Mawson (born May 17, 1963) is a Canadian-born American professional darts player. He currently resides in Fort Myers, Florida. Mawson played darts for the US in 2004 and the years immediately following, having previously played darts for Ca ...
to United States. Eight times National Royal Canadian Singles Champion. Calgary Super Singles Champion.national darts Mixed doubles Champion Twice. Pacific Cup open singles Champion. Number 7 televised National Singles Champion. Holyoake won the 1988 Royal Hawaiian Open darts tournament champion he beating by
Tony Payne of United States in semi-finalist and
Terry O'Dea
Terence O'Dea (3 May 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Australian professional darts player who competed in the 1970s and 1980s.
Career
O'Dea joined the BDO in March 1978.
O'Dea played in ten successive BDO World Darts Championships with his best ...
of Australia in the final.
Holyoake won the 1989 WDF World Cup Team championship (with
Albert Anstey,
Rick Bisaro and
Bob Sinnaeve
Bob Sinnaeve (born October 10, 1949) is a Canadian former professional darts player.
Early career
Sinnaeve took up darts in 1973 as an alternative to bowling, as he felt the darts circuit would give him more time to spend with his wife, Judy. H ...
) beating Team Australia (
Frank Palko,
Russell Stewart
Russell "Rusty" Stewart (born 9 October 1960) is an Australian former professional darts player. He used the nickname Rusty for his matches.
Playing career
Stewart was one of the most successful Australian darts players of the 1980s, Austral ...
, Keith Sullivan and
Wayne Weening) 9–7.
Holyoake quit the PDC in 1997.
Personal life
Holyoake married professional darts player
Gayl King. The couple has resided in
Calgary
Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...
,
Alberta
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since October 2022.
World Championship results
BDO
* 1983: Last 32 (lost to
Dave Lee 1–2) (sets)
External links
Profile and stats on Darts Database
Canadian darts players
Living people
British Darts Organisation players
1946 births
Sportspeople from Derby
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