Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler, 17, blows Van Gerwen away to land £500k prize in sensational World Darts Championship win
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EIGHTEEN days before his 18th birthday, the boy became king. In a dead-eyed display which made William Tell look like Elmer Fudd, Luke Littler confirmed himself as the finest arrow-slinger on the planet and the youngest world darts champion of all time.
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Littler broke the record set by his opponent, Michael Van Gerwen, who won the first of his world titles aged 24. But the phenomenal darting manchild did more than that. He broke the spirit of the finest player of the previous generation. The man from the Netherlands had no answer to a kid in Never-Never Land, as Luke the Nuke ran out a 7-3 winner.
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And Littler, a year after he’d reached the final on his first visit to this great jamboree at Ally Pally, lifted the Sid Waddell Trophy, named after the great bard of the oche. One of Waddell’s greatest quotes went like this: ‘When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer…(Eric) Bristow is only 27.”.
![[Michael van Gerwen failed to claim his fourth title at Ally Pally]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/aae56bd9-4952-4e45-b5bc-4d43a75b877b.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Well that is a decade older than Littler is now. All the fancy-dress shenanigans in the crowd make this PDC event an enormously joyous one, but they almost did the 17-year-old a disservice. CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS. READ MORE on all the build-up to the Ally Pally extravaganza...
![[It was a quite breathtaking performance from the prodigious teenager]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-luke-littler-celebrates-winning-961319535.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
All the info:. News, features and interviews:. Because, seriously, this wasn’t panto. It was one of the finest performances you could ever witness from a 17-year-old in any sport. After just 24 minutes of playing time, Littler led by four sets to nil. It was a magnificent display of cruelty.
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