Belgium Open	2001
British Classic	2001
British Open	2001
British Pentathlon	2002, 2006, 2010
England Masters	2010, 2011
Flanders Open	2009
Scottish Open	2001
Six Nations Cup	2010
WDF Europe Cup Pairs	2008
WDF Europe Cup Team	2004
WDF World Cup Pairs	2001
WDF World Cup Team	1999, 2001, 2007
Welsh Open	2000
Malta Open	2014

Updated on 17 November 2007.

John Michael Walton (born 10 November 1961 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is a former World No. 1 English darts player who played for the British Darts Organisation and Professional Darts Corporation. He is best known for winning the 2001 BDO World Darts Championship. He has adopted the nickname John Boy and uses the song "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex as his walk-on theme.

Walton picked up some small tournament victories in the early stages of his career, including the Websters 150 Championship in 1993 and the Highlands Open Championship in 1996 but didn't manage to qualify for the World Championship until 1999 when he lost 0-3 to Roland Scholten on his first round debut. He failed to qualify for the World Championship in 2000, but in the autumn of that year he won the prestigious Winmau World Masters. Despite that success, he was 50/1 with the bookmakers to win the World title in the New Year, and his Masters form possibly led to him being tipped by darts pundit Bobby George at the start of the BBC televised coverage as a possible winner.

He opened his 2001 campaign with a 3-1 first round win over Ritchie Davies and averaged an excellent 100.62 during the match. He then beat Mervyn King 3-0 with another high average of 99.00. His quarter-final victory over Marko Pusa saw Walton achieve an incredible 14 consecutive legs. Not surprisingly, the result was a 5-0 whitewash. Walton then beat Wayne Mardle 5-3 in the semi-final and Ted Hankey 6-2 in the final to become World Champion and also one of only a few players to have held both the Winmau World Masters and World Championship simultaneously. He joined Eric Bristow, Richie Burnett and Bob Anderson as the fourth player to win them in the same season. Martin Adams and Stephen Bunting have since joined this elite group of players. He has enjoyed only moderate success since his 2001 World Championship victory - the defence of his title ended with a second round loss to Colin Monk and he went out in the second round to Davies in 2003. He did manage to reach the 2004 quarter-finals, but lost 1-5 to Raymond van Barneveld. In 2005 he lost to Darryl Fitton in the second round and he was knocked out by Stephen Roberts in 2006. Another second round defeat, this time to Gary Robson followed in 2007, and in 2008 he lost in the first round to the then-reigning Winmau World Masters champion Robert Thornton. He hasn't won any of the major open events since his successful year in 2001 when he took the British Open, British Classic, Belgium Open, Scottish Open and Portland Open. Overall his tournament success has dried up since winning the world title, but he continues to maintain a high world ranking by progressing to the quarter-final and semi-final stages of several Open darts events.

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