instance_of 2001 pdc world darts championship
The Thames Gateway is an ___MASK47___ of land stretching east from inner east London on both sides of the River Thames and the Thames ___MASK70___ . The ___MASK47___ , which includes much brownfield land was designated during the early years of the Blair ___MASK83___ a national priority for urban regeneration , taking advantage of the development opportunities realised by the completion of the High Speed ___MASK40___ ( officially known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link ). First named by the UK ___MASK57___ , which is unusual in the United Kingdom , uptake of and appreciation of the term varies , with many people preferring the traditional term , the Thames ___MASK70___ . Barry Maurice William Hearn ( born 19 ___MASK30___ 1948 ) is an English sporting events promoter and the founder and chairman of promotions ___MASK38___ Matchroom Sport . The World ___MASK2___ Federation ( WDF ) is the official world sport governing body and tournament organisers and ( one of two ) for the game of ___MASK2___ . It was formed in 1974 , by representatives of the original fifteen founding members . Membership is open to the national organizing body for ___MASK2___ in all nations . The WDF encourages the ___MASK26___ of the sport of ___MASK2___ among and between those bodies , in an effort to gain international recognition for ___MASK2___ as a major sport . The WDF is a full member of SportAccord , which is the governing body for international sports federations . Thurrock is a ___MASK9___ area with borough status in the English ceremonial county of Essex . It is part of the London commuter ___MASK79___ and an area of regeneration within the Thames Gateway redevelopment zone . The local authority is Thurrock Council . The 2001 Skol World ___MASK2___ Championship was the eighth World Championship organised by the Professional ___MASK2___ Corporation ( PDC ) since it separated from the British ___MASK2___ Organisation ( BDO ) . It was held between 28 ___MASK99___ 2000 and 3 January 2001 at the Circus ___MASK36___ , Purfleet , Essex . The tournament saw a notable first as Gayl King of Canada became the first woman to appear in the men ' s World Championship , having been given a wild card by the PDC . It was seen as a publicity stunt by the PDC to raise the profile of the game , and also came in the year that the BDO started a Women ' s World Championship to run alongside their men ' s championship at the Lakeside Country Club . King lost to Graeme Stoddart in the first round . Another notable first was the absence of five - time World Champion , Eric Bristow , as he missed the World Championship for the first time since its inception in 1978 . This left John Lowe as the only remaining player with a 100 % appearance record . Peter Manley was the number 1 seed , but became the first such player to go out in the first round since the PDC championship began in 1994 , losing to Jamie Harvey . The final was contested between Phil Taylor and John Part . Taylor defeated Nigel Justice , Les Fitton , Keith Deller and Dave Askew to reach the final , losing only two sets along the way . Part , the 1994 BDO World Champion , defeated Colin Lloyd , Dennis Smith , Alan Warriner and Rod Harrington , having won only two matches in his three previous attempts in the PDC championship . Taylor maintained his strong form in the final , averaging a record 107 . 46 and losing just three legs en route to a 7 - 0 victory . This was his seventh consecutive World title , and ninth in all . ___MASK8___ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish ___MASK82___ lies northwest of ___MASK8___ and the Celtic ___MASK82___ lies to the southwest . ___MASK8___ is separated from continental Europe by the North ___MASK82___ to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths of the island of Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly , and the Isle of Wight . The ___MASK44___ , organised by the Professional Darts Corporation ( PDC ), is one of the two World Professional Darts Championships held annually in the sport of darts . The other is the BDO World Darts Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation ( BDO ). The PDC championship begins in December , overlapping in January with the start of the BDO tournament . The highest profile of the PDC ' s tournaments , it is held at Alexandra Palace in London and is sponsored by bookmaker William Hill ; winners receive the Sid Waddell Trophy , named in honour of the legendary darts commentator Sid Waddell , who died in 2012 . The ___MASK31___ of ___MASK8___ ( C of E ) is the Anglican Christian state church of ___MASK8___ . Headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury ( currently Justin Welby ) and primarily governed from London with the monarch as the supreme governor , the ___MASK31___ of ___MASK8___ is also the mother church of the international Anglican ___MASK78___ . The church dates its formal establishment as a ___MASK66___ to the 6th - century Gregorian ___MASK54___ in Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury , with considerable features introduced and established during and following the English Reformation in the 16th century . Purfleet is a ___MASK6___ in the Thurrock ___MASK9___ in Essex , England . It is contained between the A13 road to the north and the River Thames to the south and is within the easterly bounds of the M25 motorway but just outside the Greater London boundary . It was within the traditional Church of England parish of West Thurrock . There is some industry to the south and the area forms part of the Thames Gateway redevelopment area . Purfleet is one of seven conservation areas in Thurrock . Oliver Albert " Olly " Croft , ( born 17 ___MASK25___ 1929 ) is a former ___MASK2___ administrator and the founder of the British ___MASK2___ Organisation . He was one of the most influential protagonists in ___MASK2___ for almost four decades having set up and run the British ___MASK2___ Organisation from its inception in 1973 until he was voted off the board in August 2011 . The ___MASK27___ ___MASK2___ Corporation ( PDC ) is a professional ___MASK2___ organisation in the United Kingdom , established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British ___MASK2___ Organisation to form what was initially called the World ___MASK2___ Council ( WDC ). Sports promoter Barry Hearn is the PDC chairman . West Thurrock is a traditional ___MASK31___ of ___MASK8___ ___MASK98___ and town in Thurrock , Essex , ___MASK8___ , located 17 . 5 miles ( 28 . ___MASK40___ km ) east south - east of Charing Cross , London . ___MASK2___ is a form of throwing sport in which small missiles are thrown at a circular dartboard fixed to a ___MASK71___ . Though various boards and rules have been used in the past , the term " darts " usually now refers to a standardised game involving a specific board design and set of rules . As well as being a professional competitive sport , darts is a traditional ___MASK74___ game , commonly played in Britain and Ireland , across the Commonwealth , the Netherlands , Germany , the Scandinavian countries , the United States , and elsewhere . The ___MASK59___ ___MASK36___ is an entertainment venue in Purfleet , Essex , England which hosts functions , cabaret acts and is also a ___MASK89___ venue . However , it is most famous as having been a long - time venue of the ___MASK44___ . The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a motorway that encircles almost all of Greater London , ___MASK8___ ( with the exception of North Ockendon ), in the United Kingdom . An ambitious concept to build four concentric ring roads around London was first mooted in the 1960s . A few sections of the outer two rings were constructed in the early 1970s , but the ___MASK48___ was abandoned and the sections were later integrated to form a ___MASK18___ ring which became the M25 and was finally completed in 1986 . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign ___MASK32___ in western Europe . ___MASK64___ off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the ___MASK100___ of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole ___MASK32___ ), the north - eastern part of the ___MASK100___ of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe ___MASK68___ of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North ___MASK82___ to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic ___MASK82___ to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish ___MASK82___ lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous ___MASK32___ , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated ___MASK32___ in the European Union . The British ___MASK2___ Organisation ( BDO ) is a ___MASK2___ organisation founded on 7 January 1973 by Olly Croft , OBE . The BDO is a founder member of the World ___MASK2___ Federation which was formed in 1976 . The BDO comprises 66 member counties in Britain and organises tournaments for amateurs . The ___MASK95___ Thames is a ___MASK95___ that flows through southern ___MASK8___ . At , it is the longest ___MASK95___ entirely in ___MASK8___ and the second longest in the United Kingdom , after the ___MASK95___ Severn . It also flows through Oxford ( where it is called Isis ), Reading , Henley - on - Thames and Windsor . The lower reaches of the ___MASK95___ are called the Tideway , derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock . It rises at Thames ___MASK29___ in Gloucestershire , and flows into the North ___MASK82___ via the Thames Estuary . The Thames drains the whole of Greater London .