Colin Osborne
{{Short description|English darts player}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2009}}
{{Infobox darts player
| image =
| name = Colin Osborne
| fullname =
| nickname = "Ozzy"
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|06|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Middlesbrough, England
| death_date =
| death_place =
| hometown = Derby, England
| since = 1989
| darts = 22g Unicorn Contender Gold Colin Osborne
| laterality = Right-handed
| music = "Unbelievable" by EMF
| BDO =
| PDC = 2005–2024
| currentrank =
| BDO World =
| World Masters =
| World Darts Trophy =
| Int. Darts League =
| PDC World = Quarter Final: 2007
| Matchplay = Last 16: 2008
| Grand Slam = Last 16: 2010
| Grand Prix = Last 16: 2008, 2010, 2012
| Premier League =
| Championship League = Winner (1): 2009
| European = Last 16: 2009
| Vegas = Last 16: 2007
| UK Open = Runner Up: 2009
| US Open = Last 16: 2008
| PC Finals = Semi Final: 2010
| results = {{aligned table|leftright=y|fullwidth=y|class=nowrap
| Sheppey Darts Classic| 2006
| Sportsdale.com Xmas Open| 2009
| Phase two MODUS
Online darts League 2| 2021
| Phase one MODUS Online darts League 4 | 2022
}}
Players Championships
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| Players Championship (BAR)| 2009
| Players Championship (GER)| 2011
| Players Championship (KIR)| 2008
| Players Championship (SCO)| 2009
}}
UK Open Regionals/Qualifiers
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| Regional Final (NEE)| 2008
}}
| achievement = 9 Dart Finish PDPA Players Ch'ship Hayling Island 2006
2007 Makes breakthrough into PDC top 10
}}
Colin Osborne (born 19 June 1975) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. In 2009, he won the Championship League and reached the final of the UK Open.
Darts career
Osborne has won two PDC Pro Tour events and he also managed to hit two perfect nine-dart finishes in 2005. The first one of these came in the Players Championship on the Isle of Wight and a second one followed at the non-televised qualifying rounds for the 2005 World Matchplay.
On his World Championship debut in 2007, Osborne reached the quarter-finals where he was beaten 5–4 by Andy Jenkins.
This great performance was followed by an even better one at the 2007 UK Open, where he beat Michael van Gerwen and Mervyn King as he reached the semi-final only to be beaten 11–10 in a thriller against Vincent van der Voort. He followed this success with victory against James Wade in Las Vegas, only to lose to Peter Manley in the second round.
Osborne suffered a surprising first round exit in the 2008 World Championship, losing 3–1 to Dutchman Erwin Extercatte. In the 2008 World Matchplay, he beat King in the first round, but then lost in the next round to Phil Taylor. Osborne was 10–0 down before finally winning a leg, eventually losing 13–5 with Taylor averaging 109.
In the 2009 PDC World Championship, Osborne beat South Africa's Charles Losper 3–0 in the first round, before losing 4–1 to van der Voort in the second round.
2009 was a breakthrough year for Osborne, as he reached his first major final in the 2009 UK Open. Having beaten Raymond van Barneveld, Jamie Caven and Kevin Painter in the earlier rounds, he lost 11–6 to Taylor in the final. He also won the 2009 Championship League Darts, defeating Taylor 6–4 in the final, but a disappointing year in the other majors was compounded with a first-round loss to Simon Whitlock in the 2010 World Championship, a match that was dubbed "The Battle of the Wizards" due to both players being nicknamed 'The Wizard'.
In 2010, Osborne reached the semi-finals of the Players Championship Finals before losing to King. At the Grand Slam of Darts, Osborne lost his opening group match to Robert Thornton before beating Whitlock and Dave Chisnall to qualify for the knockout stages. He lost 10–3 to Gary Anderson in the last 16. He then reached the third round of the 2011 World Championship, and was 3–2 up against van Barneveld before losing 4–3.
=Nickname=
Between 2005 and 2010, Osborne was nicknamed The Wizard, a reference to The Wizard of Oz. He has long been known on the circuit, most notably by commentator Sid Waddell as Ozzy, a reference to both The Wizard of Oz and to rock singer Ozzy Osbourne. Due to the latter, he used the song "Paranoid" by Ozzy's band Black Sabbath as his walk-on. In 2011, he officially changed his nickname to 'Ozzy', following the increasing prominence of Simon Whitlock, who is also nicknamed 'The Wizard'.[http://www.pdc.tv/page/NewsdeskDetail/0,,10180~2266678,00.html Osborne Adopts New Nickname] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916223201/http://www.pdc.tv/page/NewsdeskDetail/0,,10180~2266678,00.html |date=16 September 2012 }} PDC.tv
Outside darts
Osborne is a former representative of the English table tennis team.{{cite web |title=Colin Osbourne |url=http://www.globaldarts.de/globalDartsEN/wiw/OsborneColin.html |website=Global Darts |access-date=1 March 2021}} He is also a former yo-yo champion and enjoys golf and snooker.
Osborne was born in Middlesbrough, but now lives in Derby with his wife Sarah.{{cite web |last1=Steel |first1=Adam |title=World Darts Championship frustration for Middlesbrough's Colin Osborne |url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/other-sport/world-darts-championship-frustration-middlesbroughs-10546330 |website=Teesside Live |access-date=1 March 2021 |date=4 December 2015}} The couple have two sons, Colin Jr. (born 2003) and Alfie (born 2006). For about 18 months, Colin and Sarah were the landlords of the Greyhound pub, Village Street.{{cite web |title=Darts: Colin's aiming for top |url=World Darts Championship frustration for Middlesbrough's Colin Osborne |website=Teesside Live |access-date=1 March 2021 |date=14 May 2013}}
=2020-now=
From March 2020 until 2023 he didn't compete in any darts event.
In 2023, he took part in the MODUS Super Series.
World Championship performances
=PDC=
- 2007: Quarter-Finals (lost to Andy Jenkins 4–5)
- 2008: 1st Round (lost to Erwin Extercatte 1–3)
- 2009: 2nd Round (lost to Vincent van der Voort 1–4)
- 2010: 1st Round (lost to Simon Whitlock 1–3)
- 2011: 3rd Round (lost to Raymond van Barneveld 3–4)
- 2012: 1st Round (lost to Michael van Gerwen 1–3)
- 2013: 2nd Round (lost to Simon Whitlock 0–4)
- 2014: 1st Round (lost to Brendan Dolan 0–3)
PDC major finals: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
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! Legend |
| style="background:#e5d1cb;"
| UK Open (0–1) |
| style="background:moccasin;"
| Championship League Darts (1–0) |
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!width="80"| Outcome !width="20"| No. !width="50"| Year !style="width:250px;"| Championship !style="width:200px;"| Opponent in the final !width="70"| Score(l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets. |
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| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up | 1. | 2009 | UK Open | {{Flagicon|ENG}} {{sortname|Phil|Taylor|Phil Taylor (darts player)}} | 6–11 (l) |
| style="background:moccasin;"
| style="background:#98FB98"|Winner | 1. | 2009 | {{Flagicon|ENG}} {{sortname|Phil|Taylor|Phil Taylor (darts player)}} | 6–4 (l) |
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Performance timeline
| class="wikitable" | ||||||||||
| Tournament | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | colspan=2|2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:#efefef;" | PDC World Championship
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;" |QF | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" colspan=2|3R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | UK Open
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;" |QF | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |3R | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;" |SF | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |4R | style="text-align:center; background:thistle;" |F | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |4R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" colspan=2|5R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |4R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | World Matchplay
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" colspan=2|1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | World Grand Prix
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" colspan=2|DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | European Championship
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Not held | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | colspan="5" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | Grand Slam of Darts
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Not held | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |RR | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | colspan="5" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | {{Nowrap|Players Championship Finals}}
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Not held | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;" |SF | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |{{small|2R}} | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |{{small|1R}} | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | Las Vegas Desert Classic
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |2R | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | colspan="6" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Not held | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | Championship League Darts
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Not held | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |RR | style="text-align:center; background:#0f0;" |W | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |RR | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" colspan=2|RR | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |RR | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |RR | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |NH | ||||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | US Open/WSoD
| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |NH | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" |5R | colspan="7" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Not held |
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References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150217234508/http://www.winmau.com/news/2019/Winmau_Sign_Colin_Ozzy_Osborne/ Colin Osborne profile] on winmau.com (archived)
- [https://archive.today/20150217201845/http://www.getunited.co.uk/ Colins Management Team]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150217223804/http://colinosborne180.com/ Official website]
- {{Dartsdatabase|id=27|name=Colin Osborne}}
{{PDC Roll of Honour}}
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Category:English darts players
Category:Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders
Category:Sportspeople from Middlesbrough
Category:Sportspeople from Derby
Category:PDC premier title winners