Gerwyn Price was born on 7 March 1985 and is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player.
26 Facts About Gerwyn Price
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Gerwyn Price is a 3-time Grand Slam Champion and a former world champion, becoming the first ever Welshman to win the tournament.
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Gerwyn Price broke into the top 32 on the PDC Order of Merit in 2016 and soon afterwards won his first Pro Tour title.
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Gerwyn Price took his first major win in controversial fashion at the 2018 Grand Slam of Darts tournament.
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Gerwyn Price retained the title at the 2019 tournament, and won it again in 2021.
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Gerwyn Price has played rugby union for Welsh Premier Division sides Neath and Cross Keys, Pro12 with Glasgow Warriors and rugby league with South Wales Scorpions.
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Gerwyn Price played as a hooker for Welsh Premier Division sides Neath and Cross Keys as well as rugby league with South Wales Scorpions and Blackwood Bulldogs where he was capped by Wales Dragonhearts.
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Gerwyn Price had a short spell at Pro12 side Glasgow Warriors as injury cover for their first choice players.
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Gerwyn Price ended his rugby career in 2014 in order to concentrate on playing darts full-time.
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On 16 February 2022, Gerwyn Price announced on Instagram his debut boxing fight which was scheduled for 9 April 2022 against Rhys Evans at Valley Tavern, Blackwood, Wales.
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Gerwyn Price began playing darts for his local side Markham Welfare, before playing in the Super League for Aberbargoed.
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Welsh darts professional Barrie Bates advised him to enter Qualifying School to join the Professional Darts Corporation in January 2014 and Gerwyn Price was successful in the second event.
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Gerwyn Price twice reached the last 16 stage of Players Championship events during the first half of 2014, losing to Michael van Gerwen and Stephen Bunting.
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Gerwyn Price was ranked 20th on the Order of Merit afterwards.
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Van Gerwen won the first two sets but then Gerwyn Price won seven legs in a row to go two sets all and ahead in the fifth set.
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Gerwyn Price had set darts in the fifth set, but failed to take them.
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Gerwyn Price started to show some consistency in the televised majors in 2018, reaching the quarter-finals of the Masters, UK Open, World Grand Prix and European Championship.
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In January 2019, Gerwyn Price was hit with a record fine by the Darts Regulation Authority due to his actions at the 2018 Grand Slam of Darts.
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In October 2019, Gerwyn Price reached the final of the European Championship beating Ted Evetts, Nathan Aspinall, Vincent van der Voort and Michael Smith on the way.
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Gerwyn Price then reached the final of the Players Championship, where he was the top seed due to his performances on the Pro Tour.
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Gerwyn Price went into the 2021 World Championship as third seed.
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Gerwyn Price became the first Welshman ever to win the PDC world championship, although Leighton Rees, Richie Burnett, Mark Webster and Wayne Warren had previously won the BDO version of the championship.
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At the World Matchplay Gerwyn Price made it to his first final at the Winter Gardens, hitting a 9 darter against Danny Noppert along the way.
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In 2010, Gerwyn Price was punched outside a pub in Bargoed, causing an injury which required 42 stitches to his forehead and five to his chin, as well as suffering a brain haemorrhage and nerve damage to an eyebrow.
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Gerwyn Price received a suspended jail sentence for assaulting Body on the same evening.
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Gerwyn Price called on his own followers to report the troll, and said that he wanted the culprit "kicked off of Twitter".