Jelle Klaasen (born 17 October 1984) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation and is the youngest darts player to win the World Darts Championship. His nickname is The Matador. He lives in Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands. He is an ethnic Indonesian.

On 15 January 2006, he became the youngest World Darts Champion, aged 21 years 90 days, when he defeated fellow Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld in the final of the 2006 BDO World Championship by 7 sets to 5. He also beat Shaun Greatbatch and world number one Mervyn King on his way to the final. Before the championship, he was said to be a 100-1 outsider to win the title as he did not even have a BDO Tour ranking.

Klaasen returned to the Lakeside to defend his World title at the 2007 Championship. Klaasen was unseeded for the event after a poor run of form and was facing the seeded Co Stompé, with eventual winner Martin Adams waiting in round two should he win.

Klaasen became the sixth defending champion to fall at the first hurdle in his title defence with his first round loss to fellow countryman Stompé by three sets to nil. Although Klaasen was lower in the rankings at the time, it was considered an upset as Stompé had not won at the Lakeside in the previous four years.

Dave Chisnall (born 12 September 1980) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.

In September 2011 his girlfriend Michaela gave birth to his first daughter Lexie-Rose. He is sponsored by BR Property Services and is good friends with professional player Stephen Bunting He has been playing darts since 1994.

Chisnall competed in the BDO events since 2004 when he reached the last 32 of the Welsh Open, losing to Alan Tabern. In 2007, he won the 2007 BDO Gold Cup, beating Scotland captain Mike Veitch in the semi-finals and then beat Welshman Matthew Quinlan in the final. Chisnall then fell two games short of qualifying for the 2008 BDO World Championship, losing to Robert Thornton. A few days later Chisnall was again beaten by Thornton in the Winmau World Masters. Thornton who was the eventual champion.

In 2008, Chisnall won the Isle of Man Open, beating Ted Hankey in the quarter finals and Gary Robson in the semis before defeating Robert Hughes in the final. He later went on to win the England National Championship.

Jamie Robert Caven (born 10 March 1976 in Leicester) is an English darts player. He uses the nickname Jabba for his matches and is sponsored by Unicorn.[1]

Caven qualified for the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace, defeating Wes Newton in the first round 3-0 and played Wayne Mardle in the second round, taking the first set before losing 4-1.

His good run was one of the main stories in the World Championship as he is blind in one eye and a diabetic who has to give himself injections at least four times a day. He was stung by a bee as a baby which caused him to lose sight in his eye. He married Debbie on 15 August 2009.

Caven won his first PDC title, by edging Alan Tabern in a final leg decider to win the UK Open Welsh Regional in Newport in May 2009.

Caven lost in the first round of the 2010 PDC World Championship to the Flying Scotsman, Gary Anderson (darts player)Gary Anderson 3-2

He won his first round match of the 2011 World Championship by defeating South Africa's Devon Petersen, 3-2, but was then whitewashed 0-4 by Colin Osborne in the last 32.

Raymond van Barneveld (born 20 April 1967 in The Hague, Netherlands) is a Dutch professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation. Nicknamed Barney, he is a five time World Darts Champion (4 time BDO World Champion and 1 time PDC World Champion), a two time UK Open Champion and a former winner of the Las Vegas Desert Classic. He has also won the World Masters twice, the World Darts Trophy three times and the International Darts League twice. From January to June 2008, he was the world number one ranked player, but currently, as of December 2011, he is 8th in the PDC Order of Merit.

His victory in the 2007 PDC final, added to his four previous BDO Championships brought him level with Eric Bristow as a five-time world champion, he is one of only three players in darts history to achieve this. He is the most successful Dutch darts player ever, and has a significant effect in putting the game of darts on the map in the Netherlands.

Van Barneveld's first World Championship appearance came in 1991 playing in the Embassy World Championship at the Lakeside Country Club, but his first round match ended in a 0-3 defeat to Australian Keith Sullivan.

Michael van Gerwen (born 25 April 1989 in Boxtel, Netherlands) is a Dutch professional darts player, nicknamed Mighty Mike. He is the youngest player in history to win a major televised tournament in either the BDO or the PDC, winning the 2006 Winmau World Masters at the age of 17. He is also the youngest player ever to compete at the BDO version of the World Professional Darts Championship, competing in the 2007 tournament at the age of 17 years, 257 days.

Michael reached the final of the Primus Masters Youth event at the age of just 14 in 2003. He then started to amass youth titles in 2005 including the German Open, German Gold Cup, Norway Open, Northern Ireland Open, Swedish Open and the Dutch National Youth Championship which he also defended in 2006. He also won the Men's events in the Norway and Northern Ireland Opens in the same year that he took the youth titles.

He picked up several Open titles and rose up the BDO/WDF World Rankings having climbed as high as third, even before he reached his 18th birthday.