Luke Littler wins the World Darts Championship title for the first time. The 17-year-old Englishman defeated Michael van Gerwen in the final in London with 7:3 sets.
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The Englishman thus replaces Dutchman Van Gerwen as the youngest champion at the World Championship. In addition to the Sid Waddell Trophy, which weighs around 23 kilograms, the teenager receives prize money equivalent to around 550,000 Swiss francs. He takes second place in the world rankings.
Exactly one year after losing the final of his World Championship debut (4:7 to Luke Humphries), Littler crowned an incredible season. The Nuke, as Littler is known, has risen to become one of the most famous sportsmen in Great Britain in the space of a year and has brought the TV channels excellent ratings.
Van Gerwen, on the other hand, missed out on his fourth World Championship title after 2014, 2017 and 2019. The 35-year-old has already lost a total of four finals at the world's biggest tournament. As of Saturday, he is in third place in the rankings behind the two Englishmen Humphries and Littler.
