Lorraine Winstanley (née Farlam, born 28 October 1975) is an English darts player who competes in both World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events and previously competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO) events. She won her sole BDO major the 2017 World Masters and was the losing finalist at the 2019 BDO World Darts Championship and the 2018 BDO World Trophy.
Winstanley won the 2011 Romanian International Darts Open beating Jane Shearing 5âÂÂ1 in the final.
She qualified for the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship, where she lost 0âÂÂ2 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 last leg decider. Winstanley made another World Championship quarter-final in 2013, losing 0âÂÂ2 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.
In 2017, Winstanley won her first major title at the 2017 World Masters, defeating Corrine Hammond 5âÂÂ2 in the final. Having entered the tournament in the Round of 16, she defeated Rachna David, Dobromyslova and Tricia Wright en route to the final. 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 6âÂÂ3 in the final after beating Paula Jacklin, Anca Zijlstra and Dobromyslova earlier in the tournament.
The 2019 BDO World Championship saw Winstanley's most successful run at Frimley Green, having entered as top seed. She started the tournament by beating Casey Gallagher 2âÂÂ1, before beating ten-time world champion Trina Gulliver 2âÂÂ0 in the quarter-final. In the semi-final, she beat long-time rival Dobromyslova to reach the final 2âÂÂ1 despite losing the first set. In the final, she faced unseeded qualifier Mikuru Suzuki, but was only able to win two legs in the match, losing 3âÂÂ0. 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.
In 2020, she was unable to match her 2019 World Championship performance, losing to Lisa Ashton in the quarter-final. 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.
During the collapse of the BDO in 2020, Winstanley also began competing on the PDC Challenge Tour and the PDC Women's Series. She won her first PDC event in 2022, defeating Rhian O'Sullivan in the final of event 10. 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 4âÂÂ3 before losing 2âÂÂ5 to Fallon Sherrock in the semi-final.
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.
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. She was unable to win a leg in her quarter-final, losing 4âÂÂ0 to Noa-Lynn van Leuven after struggling to stay with the Dutch player's scoring power.
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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 from a previous relationship. Her daughter Josie was a contestant on One Hundred and Eighty in 2015, winning ã2,400; Lorraine was on her team.