Lorraine Winstanley


Lorraine Winstanley is an English professional darts player.

Career

She won the 2011 Romanian International Darts Open beating Jane Shearing 5-1 in the final.
Winstanley qualified for the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship, where she lost 0–2 to Irina Armstrong in the quarter-finals. 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 tie-break final leg decider.
Winstanley qualified again for the World Championships in 2013, and made it as far as the quarter-finals, where she was beaten 2–0 by Anastasia Dobromyslova. Lorraine captured her first major at the 2017 world masters.
Announced on 14th January, she confirmed her intention to compete in Q School for 2019 to earn a tour card and compete for the Professional Darts Corporation. She was one of only a few of the big names remaining in the ladies' game not to have announced her intention to gain a tour card; but she will now join the likes of Deta Hedman, Anastasia Dobromyslova, Fallon Sherrock, Lisa Ashton and Corrine Hammond in Wigan.

World Championship results

BDO

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