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2004 World Grand Prix (darts)

darts tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4603472 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2004 Sky Bet World Grand Prix was the seventh staging of the World Grand Prix darts tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was held at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, from 18 to 24 October 2004.

The first round saw the finalists for the previous two years, Phil Taylor and John Part, get knocked out, Taylor losing to Andy Callaby and Part to Ronnie Baxter. The final was contested between Colin Lloyd and 2001 champion Alan Warriner, with Lloyd winning 7–3.

Prize money

Seeds

The tournament featured eight seeds.

Draw

Players in bold denote match winners.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2004 World Grand Prix (darts)” is darts tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through World, Grand and Prix, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, World, Grand and Prix is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4603472. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “2004 World Grand Prix (darts)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.