Michael Barnard (born 8 October 1976 from

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player who plays in the

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events.

Career

A winner of the World Youth Masters in 1991, Barnard joined the PDC circuit in late 2003 taking part in UK Open regionals, reaching the semi finals of the Scottish Regional and the quarter finals of the North West Regional. His performances helped him progress to the third round of the 2004 UK Open automatically where he narrowly lost 8–7 to

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. He then reached a semi final in the Midlands Regional for the 2005 UK Open as he entered the third round automatically once more, losing to

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. He followed this with a quarter final showing in the Open Holland. Barnard started his 2006 UK Open campaign in the second round, beating Nigel Langton 8–1. He then beat Lee Palfreyman in the third round to reach the fourth round for the very first time. He was drawn against

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and lost 11–7. Poor form forced Barnard to begin his 2007 UK Open campaign in the first round where he beat Vernon Sheppard but lost in the second round to Paul Williams. He then lost in the preliminary round in the 2008 UK Open, losing to Paul Cooper. Besides from the UK Open, Barnard had failed to qualify for any of the other PDC majors. This run ended when he won one of eight places to qualify for the

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. He was beaten by

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in round one. Having finished the 2011 season ranked too low to retain his PDC tour card automatically, Barnard entered the PDC Q School in January 2012. On the second day Barnard earned his tour card for 2012 and 2013 by beating John Bowles 6–2 in the final stage. In May 2012, Barnard earned a place in the

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by defeating

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and James Richardson in the UK qualifier. He received a bye through the first round when Gary Anderson withdrew and then lost to

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in round two 6–5. He reached the last 32 of three other ProTour events during 2012, but could never advance beyond this stage. Barnard went into 2013 ranked world number 77. Barnard failed to qualify for the 2013 UK Open as he finished 115th on the Order of Merit, outside of the top 96 who claimed their places. He reached the main stage of two European Tour events during the year, the first being a 6–2 opening round defeat to Andy Smith at the

. The other was at the Dutch Darts Masters where Barnard defeated

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6–3 and

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6–4 to record his best finish of 2013 by reaching the last 16. He faced world number two

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and was defeated 6–1. Barnard once again entered Q School to remain on the PDC Tour as he was ranked 82nd in the world after the 2014 World Championship outside the top 64 on the Order of Merit. His best result during the four days came on the final day when he lost in the last 16 5–3 to Jason Hogg, a result which saw him finish inside the top 24 on the Q School Order of Merit to earn a fresh two-year tour card. Barnard was beaten 5–1 by

in the second round of the

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. He qualified for the Dutch Darts Masters and lost 6–5 to

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in the first round. Barnard reached the last 32 of Pro Tour events three times during the year but was knocked out on each occasion. He participated in the 2015 German Darts Championship, but was knocked out 6–5 by

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in the opening round. Barnard's deepest run in 2015 came at the 15th Players Championship where he was eliminated in the last 16 6–5 by

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. Barnard qualified for the

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, but lost 6–5 to Mike Holz in the first round. He reached the final of the 13th

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event and was beaten 5–1 by Rob Cross.

World Championship results

PDC

* 2009: First round (lost to

0–3) *2019: Second round (lost to

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0–3)

Performance timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnard, Michael 1976 births English darts players Living people Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders