PDC World Youth Championship

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The PDC World Youth Championship is a tournament for darts players aged 16–23 organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). The early rounds of the tournament are played as a floor tournament, before the final is televised during a senior PDC major tournament. The first final, in 2011, was held during the senior World Championship and won by Arron Monk. Subsequent finals have been held on Premier League finals night and during the Players Championship Finals. Currently, the champion gains a qualification spot at the World Championship, while both finalists gain a spot at the next year's Grand Slam of Darts. The reigning World Youth Champion is Gian van Veen, who successfully defended his 2024 title in the 2025 edition. He and Dimitri van den Bergh (the 2017 and 2018 champion) are the only players to have won the World Youth Championship twice. Three of the thirteen World Youth Champions (Michael Smith, Luke Humphries and Luke Littler) have gone on to become senior World Champions...

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