Keith Kelvin Deller was born on 24 December 1959 and is an English former professional darts player best known for winning the 1983 BDO World Darts Championship and Unipart British Professional Championship in 1987.
12 Facts About Keith Deller
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Keith Deller was the first qualifier ever to win the championship and remains one of the youngest champions in history.
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Keith Deller had beaten world number 3 John Lowe in the quarter-finals and defending champion and world number 2 Jocky Wilson in the semi-final to become the only player in history to defeat the world's top three ranked players in the World Championship.
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Keith Deller then hit treble 20, treble 18, double 12 for the title, and even to this day commentators often refer to 138 as the "Keith Deller checkout" if a player is left with that score.
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Keith Deller did win the British Professional Championship in 1987, but generally his world ranking continued to fall, and he even failed to qualify for the World Championship between 1989 and 1993.
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Keith Deller was one of the players who broke away from the British Darts Organisation in 1992 and joined the WDC, now the PDC.
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Keith Deller now competes much less on the circuit, including around half-a-dozen UK Open Regional events during 2007; he has preferred to perform in more lucrative exhibition matches with fellow legend players such as Bristow and Lowe.
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Keith Deller's name has been in the record books on a couple of occasions.
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Keith Deller held the Guinness World Record for the fastest 3 legs of 301 in 97 seconds.
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Keith Deller became the first player to achieve a match average of 100 in a BDO World Championship match; he did lose the game to Lowe.
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On 7 August 2012 Keith Deller recorded a 25 second 301, checking out 130 on the bullseye for a new world record time.
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Keith Deller has for many years been part of the Sky Sports broadcasting team acting as a "spotter" for the cameras.