FORGOTTEN DARTERS: Stacy Bromberg who won the only PDC Women's World Championship

In this column we regularly reminisce about Forgotten Darters from the past. Today is the turn of Stacy Bromberg, the only PDC Women's World Champion.

Bromberg was born on July 27, 1956 in Los Angeles, United States. She won the North American Open in 1995 and qualified for the Winmau World Masters later that year. She surprisingly reached the final at London's Earls Court, where she eventually lost 3-1 to England's Sharon Colclough.

Debut at BDO World Championship

In the years that followed, Bromberg was mainly active in her own country. In 2002, she managed to qualify for the BDO World Championship for the first time in her career. At the Lakeside Country Club, she lost 2-0 in the opening round against Francis Hoenselaar.

In 2003, Bromberg won the PDC Ladies Las Vegas Desert Classic by beating Deta Hedman 6-4 in the final. A year later she reached the final again, but this time lost 6-5 to Trina Gulliver. Then she had to wait until 2009 for new success when she won the WDF (World Darts Federation) World Cup Singles.

Winner of PDC Women's World Championship

Bromberg was one of 32 women who took part in the first PDC Women's World Championship in 2010. After seeing off Kazumi Nakagawa, Donna Rainsley and Denise Cassidy, she faced Anastasia Dobromyslova, at the time, the only woman with a PDC membership in the semifinals.

Bromberg defeated the Russian 4-3 and then faced England's Tricia Wright in the final. All matches up to the final were played on one day, but the final was played during the World Matchplay. Bromberg and Wright made it a very exciting match, but in the end it was the American who took it 6-5. Bromberg thus wrote history and is the only PDC women's world champion to date. Since then, there has never been another PDC World Championship for women.

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Grand Slam of Darts

Thanks to her World Championship win, the American claimed a Grand Slam of Darts debut later that year. However, in a group with Mervyn King, Terry Jenkins and John Henderson, she did not win a single match. It was the last performance in front of a large crowd for the player nicknamed 'The Wish Granter'.

Bromberg, who had previously worked as a private detective, then went on to work as a teacher. However, in 2012, she had to give up her job due to battling cancer. In 2017, she lost her brave battle at just 60 years of age.