Lorraine Winstanley

Lorraine Winstanley (née Farlam, born 28 October 1975) is an English darts player who plays in both World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.

Lorraine Winstanley
Winstanley in 2021
Personal information
Born	(1975-10-28) 28 October 1975 (age 49) Buxton, Derbyshire, England
Darts information
Playing darts since	1996
Darts	24g Target Signature[1][2]
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Happy" by Pharrell Williams
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2010–2020
PDC	2020–
WDF	2010–
Current world ranking	(PDC) NR (30 July 2025)[3] (WDF W) NR (9 July 2025)[4]
WDF major events – best performances
World Championship	Runner Up: 2019
World Masters	Winner (1): 2017
World Trophy	Runner Up: 2018
Finder Masters	Last 6 Group: 2012
Other tournament wins
Tournament	Years
BDO Gold Cup British Open PDC Women's Series Romanian Open Scottish Open Slovak Open Swedish Open Welsh Masters	2011 2011 2022 2011 2010, 2011 2020 2013, 2014 2012

Career

Winstanley won the 2011 Romanian International Darts Open beating Jane Shearing 5–1 in the final.^[5]

She qualified for the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship, where she lost 0–2 to Irina Armstrong in the quarter-finals.^[6] The following year, she went one step further by making it through to the semi-finals, where she was narrowly defeated by Deta Hedman in a last leg decider.^[6] Winstanley made another World Championship quarter-final in 2013, losing 0–2 to Anastasia Dobromyslova. After first-round defeats in 2014 and 2015, Winstanley reached the quarter-finals again in 2016 before being once again being defeated by Hedman.^[6]

In 2017, Winstanley won her first major title at the 2017 World Masters, defeating Corrine Hammond 5–2 in the final.^[7] Having entered the tournament in the Round of 16, she defeated Rachna David, Dobromyslova and Tricia Wright en route to the final.^[8] She followed this success with another World Championship quarter-final in 2018. Later in the year, she reached the final of the World Trophy, losing to Fallon Sherrock 6–3 in the final after beating Paula Jacklin, Anca Zijlstra and Dobromyslova earlier in the tournament.^[9][10]

The 2019 BDO World Championship saw Winstanley's most successful run at Frimley Green, having entered as top seed.^[11] She started the tournament by beating Casey Gallagher 2–1, before beating ten-time world champion Trina Gulliver 2–0 in the quarter-final.^[11][12] In the semi-final, she beat long-time rival Dobromyslova to reach the final 2–1 despite losing the first set.^[13] In the final, she faced unseeded qualifier Mikuru Suzuki, but was only able to win two legs in the match, losing 3–0.^[14] Shortly after the tournament, Winstanley announced that she would compete in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) Q-School tournament to try and earn a PDC Tour Card, but was unsuccessful and continued competing in the BDO.^[15]

In 2020, she was unable to match her 2019 World Championship performance, losing to Lisa Ashton in the quarter-final.^[16] Following the collapse of the BDO, Winstanley did not compete in a World Championship in 2021, but in the first edition of the successor tournament, the 2022 WDF World Championship, she reached the semi-final before losing to eventual champion Beau Greaves.^[17]

During the collapse of the BDO in 2020, Winstanley also began competing on the PDC Challenge Tour and the PDC Women's Series.^[18] She won her first PDC event in 2022, defeating Rhian O'Sullivan in the final of event 10.^[19] Her Women's Series performances in the first half of 2022 led to her qualification for the inaugural Women's World Matchplay. Winstanley won her quarter-final against Rhian Griffiths 4–3 before losing 2–5 to Fallon Sherrock in the semi-final.^[20]

In 2023, Winstanley failed to qualify for the Women's World Matchplay, narrowly missing out on qualification after being overtaken in the qualification race by Noa-Lynn van Leuven in the final Women's Series event of the qualification period. Later in the year, she was knocked out in the quarter-final of the 2023 WDF World Championship by Aileen de Graaf.^[21]

After failing to qualify for the 2024 Women's World Matchplay and 2024 WDF World Championship, Winstanley qualified for the 2025 Women's World Matchplay, her first televised major tournament since the 2023 WDF World Championship.^[22] She was unable to win a leg in her quarter-final, losing 4–0 to Noa-Lynn van Leuven after struggling to stay with the Dutch player's scoring power.^[23]

World Championship results

BDO/WDF

• 2011: Quarter-finals (lost to Irina Armstrong 0–2)
• 2012: Semi-finals (lost to Deta Hedman 1–2)
• 2013: Quarter-finals (lost to Anastasia Dobromyslova 0–2)
• 2014: First round (lost to Deta Hedman 0–2)
• 2015: First round (lost to Sharon Prins 0–2)
• 2016: Quarter-finals (lost to Deta Hedman 0–2)
• 2017: Quarter-finals (lost to Anastasia Dobromyslova 1–2)
• 2018: Quarter-finals (lost to Anastasia Dobromyslova 0–2)
• 2019: Runner-up (lost to Mikuru Suzuki 0–3)
• 2020: Quarter-finals (lost to Lisa Ashton 0–2)
• 2022: Semi-finals (lost to Beau Greaves 0–3)
• 2023: Quarter-finals (lost to Aileen de Graaf 0–2)

Performance timeline

Tournament	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
BDO/WDF Ranked televised events
World Championship	QF	SF	QF	1R	1R	QF	QF	QF	F	QF	NH	SF	QF	DNQ
World Masters	1R	SF	1R	4R	4R	1R	W	QF	SF	NH		DNQ	NH	DNQ
Finder Masters	DNQ	RR	DNQ				RR	DNQ	NH
Dutch Open[a]	QF	F	F	R16	DNP	F	SF	R16	DNP	R16	NH	QF	DNP
World Trophy	NH			1R	1R	QF	1R	F	SF	NH
PDC Non-ranked televised events
Women's World Matchplay	NH											SF	DNQ		QF

1. Round of 16 onwards only.

Personal life

Winstanley is not a full-time professional darts player, and works as a beauty therapist.^[24] She is married to fellow darts player Dean Winstanley and has two children from a previous relationship.^[25] Her daughter Josie was a contestant on One Hundred and Eighty in 2015, winning £2,400; Lorraine was on her team.^[26]