Guinness World Record Darts Marathon Attempt
Posted on July 17th, 2011
MAWER IN MIND MILLION AND ONE GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT
On the 29th July at 7pm an attempt to break the existing Guiness World Record for completing 1,000,001 taking the least number of darts (for charity), will be held at Rileys in Scunthorpe. Organised by Tony Mitchell who will be participating in his third million and one, and has played county darts for Cleveland and in 2008 qualified for the Televised UK Open. The other players involved in the fundraiser are:
Darren Coates – Humberside/Lincolnshire County player well known for heavy scoring when he’s on form.
Karl Forrington – excellent player on his day and was the first to sign up for this, a very good friend of Darren.
Dave Ladley – plays on the PDC Pro Tour and an excellent player who could spur them on.
Tony Broughton – another heavy scorer and has appeared at the UK Open in 2010 and 2011.
Dean Baker – one of Lincolnshires best for more years than he’d care to remember! – always at or near the top.
Darren Weaver – has played on the Pro Tour and is also capable of very heavy scoring.
Mark Wilson – very experienced player, he qualified for the UK Open in 2010 and can produce top quality darts .
Most importantly of all, the attempt will raise money for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) at Goole. Inspired by Darren Mawer; in August 2010 Darren and his Family flew to Turkey for a short family holiday , during the journey Darren suffered a Brain Haemorage, and was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, over the next 5 weeks nobody knew if Darren would survive, thankfully he’s a fighter and he came through the dangerous time after the operations and they were able to fly him back to the UK .
Darren then spent several more weeks under the care of the NHS in Grimsby before he was able to be assessed and allocated a place at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) at Goole, when he went to the BIRT he was unable to walk and had no use of his left arm, however , 12 weeks later he was able to walk into the local school hall to watch his little girl in the Christmas play.
The funds raised from the darts marathon will be donated as a thank you to the BIRT for the fantastic work they did and are doing for Darren, his family and all of the other people that are in desparate need of their service.
If any of our readers would like to support the boys, they can donate via the just giving link below:
www.justgiving.com/Anthony-Mitchell
You can also find out more details at the Mawer in mind website and find regular Twitter updates from Tony @MaverickMitch, and search for them on Facebook! So no excuses.
DartsMad obviously wishes them the very best of luck………..
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