Jamie Harvey

Career Having made his World Championship debut in 1992, Harvey was one of the players who started the Professional Darts Corporation (then known as the World Darts Council, WDC) in 1993 and played at every PDC World Championship between 1994 and 2006.

His best performance came in 1996 at the Circus Tavern, when he reached the semi-finals but lost 1–5 to Dennis Priestley. Later that year he also reached the semi-finals of the World Matchplay – losing 9–13 to eventual champion Peter Evison. He never made the final of any of the major PDC tournaments, but has won the Antwerp Open and also the Scottish Masters in his home country. He remained one of the most popular players on the circuit throughout his career.

Although he reached the quarter-finals of the 2001 World Championship and the quarter-finals of the 2004 World Matchplay his ranking began to decline in the followihg years. He started 2007 ranked 48 in the world, but failed to qualify for the World Championship for the first time that year. In the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship qualifiers, he won four matches before falling at the final hurdle to Jacko Barry and he slipped to 73rd in the PDC Order of Merit. He still competed at nine PDC Pro Tour events in 2007, but collected only £300 in prize money with a last 32 performance being his best. Harvey dropped to 129th on the PDC Order of Merit.

His final televised match was at the 2008 UK Open, where he reached the fourth round. Phil Taylor defeated him 9–1, hitting a nine-dart finish along the way.

World Championship results BDO 1992: 2nd round (lost to Kevin Kenny 2–3) 1993: 1st round (lost to Mike Gregory 0–3)

PDC 1994: Group stage (lost to Phil Taylor 1–3) & (lost to Jim Watkins 2–3) 1995: Quarter-final (lost to Rod Harrington 2–4) 1996: Semi-final (lost to Dennis Priestley 1–5) 1997: Quarter-final (lost to Peter Evison 3–5) 1998: Group stage (Beat John Ferrell 3–0) & (lost to Rod Harrington 2–3) 1999: 2nd round (lost to Bob Anderson 2–3) 2000: 2nd round (lost to Dennis Priestley 2–3) 2001: Quarter-final (lost to Dave Askew 0–4) 2002: 1st round (lost to Shayne Burgess 3–4) 2003: 3rd round (lost to John Part 3–5) 2004: 3rd round (lost to Steve Beaton 0–4) 2005: 3rd round (lost to Roland Scholten 2–4) 2006: 1st round (lost to Tomas Seyler 0–3)

Performance timeline BDO

PDC