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Gary Anderson (born 22 December 1970) is a Scottish darts player currently playing for the Professional Darts Corporation. His nickname is 'The Flying Scotsman' and uses "Jump Around" by House of Pain as his walk-on theme/music. He won his first major televised event at the 2007 International Darts League - which featured players from both darts organisations - the British Darts Organisation and the Professional Darts Corporation.

His record at the BDO World Darts Championship was disappointing given that he has been ranked as high as world number one by the World Darts Federation. He made his debut at Lakeside in 2002 and went out to Sweden's Stefan Nagy in the first round.

He has also suffered first round defeats in 2004 (to Tony O'Shea), 2005 (to Raymond van Barneveld), 2007 (to Albertino Essers) and in 2008 (to Fabian Roosenbrand). His only level of success came in 2003 when he progressed to the semi-finals, losing 2-5 to Welshman Ritchie Davies. His only other win at Lakeside was in 2006, when he got past Gary Robson in the first round before losing again to van Barneveld in the second round.

In 2009, Gary showed some signs of form in defeating Robert Wagner and Robert Hughes to reach the quarter-finals for only the second time in his career, but he underperformed in his next match and was defeated by O'Shea.

He has won several BDO Open events including the 2006 Swiss Open and German Open.

On February 12, 2009 Anderson moved across to the Professional Darts Corporation, making his debut at the Players Championship and UK Open Scottish Regional events in Irvine at the beginning of March.^[1] Just three months later, Anderson won his first tournament, the Welsh Players Championship in Newport beating Mervyn King 6-2 in the final.^[2]

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Anderson won both the International Darts League and World Darts Trophy titles in 2007. It was a significant achievement as he succeeded against fields comprising the top players and world champions from both the rival organisations the PDC and BDO.

In the two events, he had victories against Wayne Mardle, Roland Scholten, Mervyn King, James Wade, Adrian Lewis, Mark Webster, John Part, Peter Manley, Andy Hamilton and Phil Taylor.

Shortly after his WDT title, his success continued by clinching the British Open to add to his 2007 Scottish Open success.

In 2008, Anderson added the German Open and the Welsh Open to his resume and also won the Zuiderduin Masters for the second successive year.

In 2009, Anderson impressed during his PDC television debut at the Premier League Darts in an exibition match, and is due to make his major television debut at the 2009 UK Open at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton. He is expected to be a major challenger to the current World Top 3 of Wade, van Barneveld and Taylor.