Colin Lloyd
Lloyd in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Colin Edward Lloyd
Nickname	"Jaws"
Born	(1973-08-07)7 August 1973 (age 52) Colchester, Essex, England
Darts information
Playing darts since	1985
Darts	18g Red Dragon
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Monster" byThe Automatic
Organisation (seesplit in darts)
PDC	1999–2018
WDF major events – best performances
World Masters	Last 64: 2001
World Trophy	Quarter-final: 2006
Int. Darts League	Runner-up: 2006
PDC premier events – best performances
World Championship	Semi-final: 2002
World Matchplay	Winner (1): 2005
World Grand Prix	Winner (1): 2004
UK Open	Semi-final: 2007
Grand Slam	Last 16: 2007, 2009, 2010
European Championship	Semi-final: 2010
Premier League	Runner-up: 2005
Ch'ship League	Runner-up: 2008
Desert Classic	Semi-final: 2003
US Open/WSoD	Runner-up: 2008
PC Finals	Quarter-final: 2009, 2010, 2011
Other tournament wins
Antwerp Open 2002, 2003, 2004 Bob Anderson Classic 2005 Irish Masters 2006 Le Skratch Montreal Open 2004 Open Holland 2004 Sunparks Masters 2004 Vauxhall Autumn Pro 2005 Vauxhall Spring Pro 2003, 2005 West Tyrone Open 2004, 2005 Players Championships (x10) Players Championship (Atlanta) 2009 Players Championship (Chicago) 2008 Players Championship (Crawley) 2010, 2012 Players Championship (Dublin) 2004 Players Championship (Gibraltar) 2010 Players Championship (Hayling Island) 2006 Players Championship (Isle of Wight) 2005 Players Championship (Lisse) 2006 Players Championship (Ontario) 2010 UK Open Regionals/Qualifiers (x5) Regional Final (Ireland) 2005 Regional Final (North East England) 2009 Regional Final (South West England) 2008 Regional Final (Southern England) 2008 UK Open Qualifier 2010
Other achievements
Nine dart finish – Irish Masters 2006 (non-televised)[1]
Updated on 17 February 2008.

Colin Edward Lloyd^[2] (born 7 August 1973), nicknamed"Jaws", is an English former professionaldarts player. He formerly competed inProfessional Darts Corporation events, where he was ranked world number one from April 2005 to January 2007 (except for March–May 2006). He won two major televised titles – the2004 World Grand Prix and the2005 World Matchplay.

Lloyd started playing darts as a schoolboy, representingEssex in the youth leagues at 13 before becoming a county player at 16. He worked as a builder before pursuing darts full time.^[3]

Lloyd broke onto the scene in 1999, making his TV debut the same year, In the first round he beatingScott Cummings 10–8, thrashingAlan Warriner 13–2 in the second round and the quarter-finals losing toPeter Manley 16–8 of the 1999 PDC World Matchplay. His World Championship debut came in 2000 – but he lost in the first round toShayne Burgess. After another first round loss at the 2001 World Championships, his major breakthrough was in the 2002 PDC World Championship, where he reached the semi-finals, losing toPeter Manley 6–4. He had beatenAlex Roy, Warriner andRichie Burnett to reach the semi-finals that established him as one of the top players on the PDC circuit.

His long-awaited first major title came in the 2004World Grand Prix, where he beat Warriner in the final. His success in the non-televised PDC Pro Tour events saw hisworld ranking continue to rise. By April 2005 he had reached world number one – a position he held (with a brief interruption in June 2006) for almost two years. Soon after becoming World Number One he added the2005 World Matchplay title inBlackpool, beatingJohn Part in the final, hitting 15 180s and ending the match on a maximum 170 checkout.^[4] He also reached the final of the2005 World Grand Prix before losing 1–7 toPhil Taylor.^[5] This good form made him second favourite in the2006 World Championship, only behind Taylor in terms of odds. Unfortunately for Lloyd, he was knocked out in the first round by qualifier Gary Welding, having led 2–0 in the best-of-five match.^[6] He reached the final of theInternational Darts League in the Netherlands in May 2006, losing toRaymond van Barneveld.

A heavy 2–11 defeat to Taylor at the2006 UK Open saw his form in televised events dip dramatically. He lost in the first round of the2006 Las Vegas Desert Classic toChris Mason, toSteve Maish (despite a ten-dart leg where he was two darts away from anine dart finish) at the2006 World Matchplay and toBob Anderson in the first round of theWorld Grand Prix. He lost his world number one ranking after a second round loss to eventual world champion van Barneveld at the2007 PDC World Championship. He had led 3–0 insets, failed with four match darts, and eventually lost 3–4.

Lloyd lost in the first round of the 2007US Open toJim Widmayer before showing some improvement with a run to the semi-finals of the2007 UK Open. But he continued to lose ranking places as his good results from the two-year ranking period were replaced with further first round losses toWes Newton at the2007 Las Vegas Desert Classic and toMervyn King at the2007 World Matchplay.

He went into the2008 World Championship ranked 12th in the world, having been number one just twelve months previously. He missed a dart at bullseye to win his first round match with Jan van der Rassel and then lost 2–3 (6–4 in legs in the final set). Lloyd's poor form at the2009 World Championship continued as he lost in straight sets to the Netherlands'Jelle Klaasen in the first round. After winning his first round match at the 2009 World Matchplay againstWayne Jones, Lloyd announced that he had just recovered fromswine flu and had been placed in isolation for five days.^[7]

Whilst playingAndree Welge in the 2011PDC World Darts Championship first round, Lloyd punched the dart board out of frustration from letting slip a 2–0 lead to be all square at 2–2. Despite this, he eventually won the match 3–2 with a 116 out shot, and after the match said that he regretted what he did and said it was born out of pure frustration.^[8]

He comfortably made it to the last 16 of the2012 World Championship by beatingDarin Young andScott Rand, 3–1 and 4–1 respectively.^[9] However, he struggled against world number fourGary Anderson in the next round, losing 1–4 as his opponent averaged 100.^[10] In April, Lloyd dropped out of the world's top 16 for the first time in over a decade and will need to qualify for the upcoming major events if he does not regain his place.^[11] In his next major event, theUK Open, Lloyd posted an encouraging result by defeating reigning championJames Wade 9–5,^[12] but then lost to world number 48Joe Cullen 8–9 in the last 32.^[13] Lloyd hit anine-dart finish in the first round of theEuropean Tour Event 2 during a 6–5 win overAlex Roy.^[14] In July, he won the tenthPlayers Championship of the year, his first ranking title in almost 2 years. He beatAndy Hamilton 6–5 in the final and briefly returned to the top 16.^[15] He was ranked 17th at the cut-off point before theWorld Matchplay, but still qualified due to his position on the ProTour Order of Merit.^[16] Lloyd facedMark Webster in the first round and was defeated 6–10.^[17] After all 33 ProTour events of 2012 had been played, Lloyd was 16th on the Order of Merit, which qualified him for thePlayers Championship Finals where he was beaten byPeter Wright 5–6 in the first round, after being 5–3 ahead.^[18][19]

Lloyd overcameDarin Young andMark Webster to faceMichael van Gerwen in the last 16 of the2013 World Championship, and was beaten 4–1.^[20] He lost 9–8 toBrendan Dolan in the third round of theUK Open.^[21] Lloyd lost each of the five opening legs to Van Gerwen in the first round of theWorld Matchplay but made a fightback to trail just 7–6 before being eliminated 10–7.^[22] Lloyd's best result of 2013 was at theAustrian Darts Open where he beat the likes ofAndy Hamilton (6–0) andWes Newton (6–4) to reach the semi-finals and another meeting with Van Gerwen with Lloyd losing 6–2.^[23][24]

He twice came from a set down to level his first round match at 2–2 in the2014 World Championship againstBeau Anderson. Lloyd then missed 11 darts in the final set to break throw as all ten legs went with throw to send the match into a sudden-death leg which Anderson won to eliminate Lloyd.^[25] Lloyd missed out on playing in theUK Open for the first time in the tournament's history this year as he only entered three of the six qualifying events and failed to advance beyond the last 64 in any of them.^[26] Lloyd also failed to qualify for both theWorld Matchplay andWorld Grand Prix for the first time in 2014. He could not get past the last 64 of any event he entered during the season.^[27] Lloyd failed to qualify for the2015 World Championship as he was 35th on the Order of Merit before the event, outside of the top 32 who automatically earn their places, and was not successful via any other method of qualification; it marked the first World Championship since 1999 to not feature Lloyd, and he vowed to retire if his poor form continued into 2015, saying "I'm not going to say I'm finished yet, because I think I'm far from finished. But this is the worst year I've ever had. It's been an abysmal year. If I get six months into next year and feel I'm not competing at the level I want to, then that will be the time to take a step back".^[28] He began 2015 as the world number 41.^[29] However, his form did not improve as he could not qualify for a single major tournament and only advanced to the last 32 once in the 31 events he played in.^[30] He dropped to 121st in the world after the2016 World Championship and announced he would not be entering Q School, although he did not rule out the possibility of attempting to return in the future.^[31]

Lloyd qualified for the first threePremier League tournaments between 2005 and 2007 – the tournament was restricted to the top six ranked players in the PDC and one wildcard in 2005 and 2006, while in 2007, it was restricted to the top six ranked players in the PDC and two wildcards. In 2005, he finished second after the league stage but lost to Taylor in the final. In 2006, Lloyd went out to eventual winner Taylor in the semi-finals, then finished 5th in the league stage in 2007. Due to his slip in rankings, he failed to get invited to the Premier League since then.

Lloyd isdiabetic. He lost six stone in 2020 after starting a fitness regime.^[3]

• 2000: First round (lost toShayne Burgess 0–3) (sets)
• 2001: First round (lost toJohn Part 0–3)
• 2002: Semi-finals (lost toPeter Manley 4–6)
• 2003: Third round (lost toChris Mason 1–5)
• 2004: Fourth round (lost toWayne Mardle 3–4)
• 2005: Quarter-finals (lost toWayne Mardle 4–5)
• 2006: First round (lost to Gary Welding 2–3)
• 2007: Second round (lost toRaymond van Barneveld 3–4)
• 2008: First round (lost to Jan van der Rassel 2–3)
• 2009: First round (lost toJelle Klaasen 0–3)
• 2010: Third round (lost toRonnie Baxter 1–4)
• 2011: Second round (lost toMark Hylton 2–4)
• 2012: Third round (lost toGary Anderson 1–4)
• 2013: Third round (lost toMichael van Gerwen 1–4)
• 2014: First round (lost toBeau Anderson 2–3)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	2004	World Grand Prix	Alan Warriner-Little	7–3 (s)
Runner-up	1.	2005	Premier League	Phil Taylor	4–16 (l)
Winner	2.	2005	World Matchplay	John Part	18–12 (l)
Runner-up	2.	2005	World Grand Prix	Phil Taylor	1–7 (s)
Runner-up	3.	2008	US Open	Phil Taylor	0–3 (s)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2006	International Darts League	Raymond van Barneveld	5–13 (s)

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