Alan Warriner-Little

Darts player infobox


playername = Alan Warriner-Little
fullname =
nickname = "The Iceman"
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1962|3|24
cityofbirth = Lancaster
countryofbirth = England
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
hometown = Crosby, Cumbria
homecountry = England
since = 1985
darts = 22g Datadart
music = Cold As Ice (1977) - Foreigner
BDO = 1985 - 1993
PDC = since 1993
currentrank = 34
BDO World = Runner-up 1993
World Masters = Runner-up 1998
World Darts Trophy =
Int. Darts League =
PDC World = Semi-finalist 1999, 2003
Matchplay = Runner-up 1997, 2000
Grand Prix = Winner 2001
UK Open = QF 2004
Vegas = QF 2003
Premier League =
US Open = Last 32, 2007
Grand Slam =
tournament = Atlantic City Open
Belgium Open
British Open
Cleveland Darts Extravaganza
Dutch Open
England Open
Finnish Open
German Open
Isle Of Man Open
Jersey Festival Of Darts
PDC Scottish Masters
PDC UK Matchplay
resultyears = 1996
1989, 1990
1990
1999
1989, 1993, 1998
1998
1993
1998
1986
2000
1997
1995
achievement = PDC World Number 1 (Jan 1993 to Nov 1994), (Feb 1997 to Aug 1998), (Oct 2001 to Jan 2002), (Jan 2002 to May 2002)
updated = February 11, 2008

Alan Warriner-Little (born March 24, 1962 in Lancaster) is an English professional . He currently lives in Crosby, Cumbria and plays with the nickname The Iceman. [ [http://www.theiceman.co.uk/intro.htm Profile from Warriner's website] ] He is a former World Grand Prix champion, but in his long darts career to date has failed to win the biggest tournament of all, the World Championship.

Darts career

Warriner's first television appearance came on the game show "Bullseye" as one of the contestants. He would later appear six times as a darts player throwing for charity. He progressed through the British Darts Organisation's (BDO) superleague and county system and went on to win his first major tournament, the 1986 Isle of Man Open. He won several open tournaments, including the 1990 British Open as he climbed the world rankings.

He made his World Championship debut in 1989, losing a second round match to Jocky Wilson. He reached the quarter-finals in 1991 and 1992, before reaching his first World Final in 1993 - but he lost 3-6 to John Lowe. This form took him to the top of the world rankings.

He joined the top players in the game when they separated from the BDO after that 1993 final - they formed the World Darts Council (WDC, now Professional Darts Corporation PDC) and started their own World Championship.

He was the first world number one in the PDC rankings between January 1993 and November 1994, and also regained the position twice (February 1997 to August 1998 and October 2001 to May 2002).

He has a consistent record in the PDC World Championship - reaching the quarter-finals six times (1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004 and 2006) and the semi-finals twice (1999 and 2003), but the world crown has still eluded him.

His one major championship in the PDC came in the 2001 World Grand Prix, an event he also reached the final in 2004. He added this to the now discontinued UK Matchplay in 1995. He has twice been a runner-up in the World Matchplay, in 1997 and again in 2000. He lost in the final to Phil Taylor on both occasions.

World Championship Results

BDO
* 1989: Second Round (lost to Jocky Wilson 2-3)
* 1990: First Round (lost to Mike Gregory 0-3)
* 1991: Quarter Final (lost to Bob Anderson 3-4)
* 1992: Quarter Final (lost to Kevin Kenny 0-4)
* 1993: Final (lost to John Lowe 3-6)

PDC
* 1994: Quarter Final (lost to Steve Brown 3-4)
* 1995: Last 24 Group (finished second in Group 4 behind Dennis Smith)
* 1996: Quarter Final (lost to Dennis Priestley 1-4)
* 1997: Quarter Final (lost to Eric Bristow 3-5)
* 1998: Last 24 Group (finished bottom in Group 8)
* 1999: Semi Final (lost to Phil Taylor 3-5)
* 2000: Quarter Final (lost to Phil Taylor 0-5)
* 2001: Quarter Final (lost to John Part 1-4)
* 2002: Second Round (lost to Colin Lloyd 4-6)
* 2003: Semi Final (lost to Phil Taylor 1-6)
* 2004: Quarter Final (lost to Phil Taylor 1-5)
* 2005: Third Round (lost to Paul Williams 1-4)
* 2006: Quarter Final (lost to Wayne Mardle 0-5)
* 2007: First Round (lost to Alan Tabern 0-3)
* 2008: Second Round (lost to Peter Manley 1-4)

Outside Darts

Despite his run to the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Championship, his ranking has slipped in recent years - he is now outside the top 20. In a possible attempt to address the slide, he took the decision to turn full-time professional after the 2006 World Matchplay event, giving up his previous full-time career as a male nurse.

He married Brenda Little in the summer of 2005 [ [http://www.planetdarts.tv/page/utozdetail/0,,10180~727888,00.html Planet Darts profile] ] and added her name to his. He switched from being known as Alan Warriner to Alan Warriner-Little.

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