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Revision as of 08:21, 15 October 2006 by Seedybob2 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Michael van Gerwen (born April 25, 1989 in Boxtel, Netherlands) is a Dutch professional darts player. He is nicknamed "Mighty Mike". In January 2007, Van Gerwen will become the youngest player ever to compete at the World Professional Darts Championship at the age of 17 years, 289 days.
He has already picked up several Open titles and risen up the BDO & WDF World Rankings having climbed as high as third, even before he has reached his 18th birthday.
Van Gerwen reached the semi-finals of the Bavaria World Darts Trophy in 2006. Despite losing to Martin Adams, the Dutch youngster came within one dart of the perfect nine dart finish, just missing double twelve. He did manage the highest possible checkout of 170 during the tournament.
His early career success led to inevitable speculation that he may join the other professional circuit of darts, the Professional Darts Corporation. However, during the World Darts Trophy, van Gerwen held a press conference to make it clear that he wanted to stay with the BDO/WDF.
Titles Won
Youth
- Europe Cup Youth Pairs/team/overall Winner 2005, 2006
- Europe Cup Youth Singles Winner 2006
- Dutch Youth Championchips 2005, 2006
- German Open Youth 2005
- German Gold Cup Youth 2005
- Norway Open Youth 2005
- Northern Ireland Youth 2005
- Swedish Open Youth 2005
Individual Men
- Norway Open 2005
- Northern Ireland Open 2005
- Belgium Classics 2006
- Open Holland 2006
- Welsh Open 2006
- Starlight Open 2006
- Westerlaan Open 2006