Gabriel Clemens (born August 16, 1983) is a German professional
darts
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player who plays in
Professional Darts Corporation
The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form what was initially called the World ...
(PDC) events.
Career
In 2017, Clemens made the semi-finals of the
World Masters
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, and missed match darts against the BDO number one
Mark McGeeney
Mark McGeeney (born 28 June 1972) is an English professional darts player from Coventry, Warwickshire. He currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
BDO
In August 2010, McGeeney won the Weoley Castle Open, beati ...
to reach the final.
In January 2018, he gained a two-year PDC Tour Card. He won the fourth day of European Q-School by defeating the Dutchman
Vincent Kamphuis
Vincent Kamphuis (born 7 May 1980 in Epe) is a professional Dutch darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.
Darts career
He earned a PDC Tour Card in 2016, and qualified for two PDC European Tour events. He also qualified ...
5–3 in the final. In his first year on the circuit, he reached the final of
2018 PDC Players Championship 11, where he took on two-time world champion
Gary Anderson. Clemens missed two match-darts to win the title and lost 5–6.
In December 2020, he became the first German player to reach the round of Last 16 in the
PDC World Darts Championship, after beating reigning champion
Peter Wright 4–3.
Clemens reached the semi-final of the
2023 PDC World Darts Championship, becoming the first German player to reach that stage of the competition before suffering a 6–2 defeat to
Michael Smith having already defeated world number one
Gerwyn Price
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in the previous round.
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World Championship results
PDC
* 2019: Second round (lost to
John Henderson 2–3)
* 2020: First round (lost to
Benito van de Pas
Benito van de Pas (born 18 January 1993) is a Dutch professional darts player.
Career BDO
Van de Pas reached the semi-finals of the 2011 PDC Under-21 World Championship, losing 1-4 to Michael van Gerwen.
Van de Pas won the 2011 German Open. Th ...
2–3)
* 2021: Fourth round (lost to
Krzysztof Ratajski
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3–4)
* 2022: Third round (lost to
Jonny Clayton
Jonny Clayton (born 4 October 1974) is a Welsh professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Nicknamed The Ferret, he was half of the Welsh team that won the 2020 PDC World Cup of Darts before winning his ...
0–4)
* 2023: Semi-finals (lost to
Michael Smith 2–6)
Performance timeline
BDO
PDC
''PDC European Tour''
Career finals
PDC world series finals: 1 (1 runner-up)
References
External links
Gabriel Clemens on Darts1.de(German)
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Living people
German darts players
Professional Darts Corporation current tour card holders
1983 births
PDC World Cup of Darts German team
People from Saarlouis
Sportspeople from Saarland