Wayne Weening 

Nickname:   Wayne Weening

Country:      Australia

Dart of Choice:   Shot!  21gm 
 

"I am excited to be part of the darting fraternity once again and I am looking forward to competing with Australia`s future champions with my new Shot! darts. I have been fortunate to have been sponsored by Puma in the past and I am proud that they have asked me to be their Australian ambassador for Shot! a new and exciting range of darts and equipment for the darting purist..... Wayne Weening

How long playing darts?

I have been playing darts for 30 years now and it all started after throwing some darts in a mates fathers shed. I joined their darts team 6 months later but was asked to make way for an “A” grade player, and so, I moved to the Geelong Darts Club Inc. in Corio, a suburb of Geelong and formed friendships with players that played Super league and State darts. Their influences helped me make the State reserve side in 1984. In 1985 I made my 1st Victorian State team and have represented 19 times. In 1988 I qualified for the Winmau World Masters and my Embassy World Professional (Lakeside) debut followed a month later in 1989. Two years later in Zaandvoort, Holland, I teamed up with Keith Sullivan to win Gold in the World Cup Pairs. I played 17 years straight for Victoria before briefly retiring to build a home and life for my 2 year old son. I returned to the Victorian team in 2004 & 2005, and in the same year I was named as a reserve for the Australian side in 2005. Work took up most of my time until 2009 and in 2010 I started to play more events. In March 2010 I ruptured my Achilles tendon and was out of action for most of the year until August where I qualified to play in the Wild Turkey Pro tour Final. I went on to make the final of the Russell Stewart Classic a DPA event and then in October I was the Finalist in the Australian Masters a BDO, WDF and DFA event.

• World Cup,1989, Canada,- silver in Teams
• World Cup, 1991 Holland – Gold in Doubles. , Bronze overall
• World Cup,1993 Las Vegas – Bronze in Doubles.
• World Cup, 1995 Switzerland– Bronze in Doubles- Bronze overall
• World Cup, 1997 Australia
• World Cup 1999.South Africa
• Asia Pacific Cup, 1992 – Gold in Doubles, Silver in Singles., Gold overall
• Asia Pacific Cup, 1998 – Silver in Doubles, Gold Teams, Gold overall
• Asia Pacific Cup, 2000 - Bronze overall
• Winner Dortmund Open, 1991.
• Winner Swedish Open, 1995
• State Representative, Australian Championships: 1985 to 2001 inclusive, 2004 and 2005.
• Winner Australian Masters, 1989 and 1999.
• Winner Australian Singles, 1998 and 2000.
• Finalist: ’88, ’91, ’92, ’95, ’99.
• Winner Australian Doubles, ’87, ’89, ’93, ’98.
• Finalist: ’92, ’95.
• Winner Pacific Masters,2000.
• Playing Captain Malaysian Open 1998 Teams event – winner
• Malaysian Open 1998 Singles Finalist
• 8 Lakeside World Professional appearances - best result quarter final
• 4 Winmau World Masters appearances
• Australian Darts Federation Hall of fame inductee 2008
• Australian Masters 2010 - Finalist