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Jamie Caven

Jamie Caven
Personal information
Full name Jamie Robert Caven
Nickname Jabba
Born (1976-03-10) 10 March 1976 (age 41)
Royston, England
Home town Royston
England
Darts information
Playing darts since 1993
Darts 23g Unicorn Jamie Caven
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music Tom Hark by The Piranhas
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC 2007–
Current world ranking 29
PDC premier events - best performances
World Ch'ship Last 16: 2016
World Matchplay Last 16: 2013
World Grand Prix Last 32: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015
Ch'ship League Semi-finals: 2012
Desert Classic Last 32: 2009
European Ch'ship Quarter-finals: 2010, 2013
UK Open Quarter-finals: 2009, 2012
US Open/WSoD Last 16: 2009
Players Ch'ship Finals Quarter-finals: 2014
Other tournament wins
Eyres Monsell Open 2009
Granite City Open 2014
Potteries Open 2014
Sportsdale.com Xmas Open 2010
World Youth Masters 1993

Players Championships

Players Championship (AUT) 2009
Players Championship (CAN) 2010
Players Championship (DER) 2011
Players Championship (IRE) 2010
Players Championship (WIG) 2013 (x2)

UK Open Regionals/Qualifiers

UK Open Regional (WAL) 2009

Players Championships

UK Open Regionals/Qualifiers

Jamie Robert Caven (born 10 March 1976 in Leicester) is an English professional darts player. He has won seven events on the PDC Pro Tour, including two in the same weekend in May 2013. Caven was also the World Youth Masters champion in 1993.

Caven has no sight in his right eye, after being stung by a bee when he was 18 months old. At the age of 17, Caven won the World Youth Masters. When he was 20, tumours were found in his pancreas resulting in its removal and his requirement to have four insulin injections a day for the rest of his life. This is where his darts nickname Jabba originated.

Caven qualified for the 2008 World Championship at Alexandra Palace, and defeated Wes Newton in the first round 3–0, before playing Wayne Mardle in the second round, taking the first set before losing 4–1.

Caven won his first PDC title, by edging Alan Tabern in a final leg decider to win the UK Open Welsh Regional in Newport in May 2009. A month later he reached his first PDC major quarter-final at the UK Open, where he lost 10–3 to Colin Osborne.

Caven lost in the first round of the 2010 PDC World Championship to Gary Anderson 3–2.

He won his first round match of the 2011 World Championship by defeating South Africa's Devon Petersen, 3–2, but was then whitewashed 4–0 by Colin Osborne in the last 32.


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