5 great darts world champions the day Jocky Wilson would have turned 70
Wilson became Scotland’s first world darts champion in 1982.
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Scottish darts great Jocky Wilson, who won the World Professional Darts Championship twice, would have turned 70 on Sunday.
Here, the PA news agency looks back over his career and at those of four other great darts world champions.
Jocky Wilson
Michael Van Gerwen
The Dutch three-time world champion burst onto the professional darts scene at 17, but his breakthrough year came in 2012 and he became the youngest winner of the PDC World Championship in 2014, aged 24. Current world number one, Van Gerwen has dominated darts since then and is the second most successful player in the PDC behind Phil Taylor, and has completed the set of titles.
Phil Taylor
Raymond Van Barneveld
Eric Bristow
