Two nine-darters and Luke Littler’s spectacular match helped The BIGGER 180 charity marketing campaign increase over £1m for Prostate Most cancers UK on the Paddy Energy World Darts Championship.
Paddy Energy once more supported Prostate Most cancers UK with their charity exercise on the World Darts Championship, held from December 15-January 3 at London’s Alexandra Palace and reside on Sky Sports activities, with The BIGGER 180 proving an enormous success.
£1,000 was pledged by the bookmaking agency per 180 hit through the match, with 907 maximums achieved throughout the 16 days of play and a operating whole proven throughout Sky Sports activities’ reside protection.
Littler fired extra 180s than every other participant on his solution to a maiden World Darts Championship title, producing 76 throughout the match, 20 greater than closest challenger Michael van Gerwen.
Olympic biking legend Sir Chris Hoy was an envoy for The BIGGER 180, presenting the Sid Waddell Trophy in addition to the Ballon d’Artwork trophy to Littler following Friday’s remaining.
A £60,000 bonus was paid for each nine-darter achieved within the occasion, with each Christian Kist and Damon Heta touchdown an ideal leg to set off a further £120,000 donation, leaving The BIGGER 180 marketing campaign seeing £1,027,000 donated to Prostate Most cancers UK.
Kist’s nine-darter was the primary because the well-known “I can’t speak” good leg from Michael Smith within the 2023 remaining, though the Dutchman went on to lose his first-round match 3-1 in opposition to Madars Razma.
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Christian Kist lands the primary good leg of darts to take the primary set in his first-round match in opposition to Madars Razma
Heta’s good leg got here in his 4-3 loss to Luke Woodhouse, with each gamers incomes themselves £60,000 in addition to £60,000 going to a fortunate fan within the crowd.
Over 160,000 folks used Prostate Most cancers UK’s on-line risk-checker through the match, taking the 30-second questionnaire which might rapidly spotlight the danger of being among the many one in eight males who will get prostate most cancers – the commonest most cancers in males.
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One other have a look at how the Alexandra Palace crowd went wild for Damon Heta’s nine-darter on the World Darts Championship
Funds raised from The BIGGER 180 marketing campaign through the Paddy Energy World Darts Championship supported Prostate Most cancers UK’s ground-breaking TRANSFORM screening trial, aiming to search out one of the best ways to diagnose the illness early – and pave the best way for a nationwide screening programme.
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