In-depth profiles, career retrospectives, and match analysis covering every major figure from the Lakeside era, from the Crafty Cockney to the Golden Girl.
From a first-round exit in 1991 to four world titles: how Raymond van Barneveld made the Lakeside championship his own before leaving for the PDC.
Ted Hankey beat Ronnie Baxter 6–0 in 46 minutes to win the 2000 world title, then waited nine years to lift it again against Tony O'Shea.
In January 1983 a 23-year-old qualifier beat the world's top three players and sealed the title with a 138 checkout darts has never forgotten.
Two BDO world titles, a 125/1 upset that shook Lakeside, and then he was gone. Phil Taylor's years in the BDO were brief, brilliant, and still difficult to assess without mixed feelings.
Ten BDO Women's World Championship titles. Seven of them consecutive. Trina Gulliver from Southam, Warwickshire, built a record at Lakeside that no player in the history of either the men's or women's game has come close to matching as a proportion of titles available.
Five BDO world titles, a decade of dominance, a crippling condition nobody quite understood, and a controversy that overshadowed everything. Eric Bristow remains the most complicated figure the sport has produced.
AIFrom Eric Bristow's five world titles to Trina Gulliver's ten, the BDO era produced players who defined the sport. These are the legends who built Lakeside’s reputation.