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Alan Warriner-Little (born Alan Warriner on 24 March 1962 in Lancaster, Lancashire) is an English former professional darts player. He currently lives in Crosby, Cumbria and played with the nickname The Iceman.〔(Profile from Warriner's website )〕 He is a former World Grand Prix champion, and a former runner-up at the World Professional Darts Championship. ==Darts career== Before coming to prominence as a darts professional, Warriner-Little appeared as a contestant in a 1987 edition of the ITV gameshow Bullseye whilst working as a psychiatric nurse at a Lancaster hospital. He made his World Championship debut in 1989, losing a second-round match to Jocky Wilson in a sudden death leg, after missing 8 match darts, with Wilson going on to win the tournament for his second World Championship. Warriner reached the quarter-finals in 1991 and 1992, before reaching his first World Final in 1993 - but he lost 3-6 to John Lowe. This form took him to the top of the world rankings. He joined the top players in the game when they separated from the BDO after that 1993 final. He has a consistent record in the PDC World Championship - reaching the quarter-finals seven times (1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2006) and the semi-finals twice (1999 and 2003). He won the 2001 World Grand Prix and also recorded the highest 3-dart average with a double start (106.45) which he did in the first round of that tournament.〔http://www.pdpa.co.uk/Page/Content/8〕 As well as that he was runner-up in this event in 2004. He also was runner-up in the World Matchplay in 1997 and 2000, as well as in the World Masters in 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alan Warriner-Little )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Warriner-Little」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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