Gian van Veen

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Veen, not Veen.

Gian van Veen
van Veen at the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts
Personal information
Nickname	The Giant
Born	(2002-04-23) 23 April 2002 (age 22)[1] Poederoijen, Netherlands
Home town	Poederoijen, Netherlands
Darts information
Playing darts since	2015
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	Astronomia (Vicetone remix) by Vicetone
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC	2022– (Tour Card 2023–)
Current world ranking	28 (24 November 2024)[2]
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship	Last 64: 2025
World Matchplay	Last 32: 2024
World Grand Prix	Last 32: 2024
UK Open	Last 16: 2024
Grand Slam	Quarter Final: 2024
European Ch'ship	Semi Final: 2023
PC Finals	Last 32: 2023
World Series Finals	Last 32: 2024
Other tournament wins
PDC Challenge Tour 2022 Youth events PDC World Youth Ch'ship 2024 Belfry Open Youth 2019 Denmark Masters Youth 2018 PDC Development Tour 2022, 2023 (x6), 2024 (x2)

Gian van Veen (born 23 April 2002) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won 9 titles on the PDC Development Tour and is the current World Youth Champion. He has also been the runner-up at 3 PDC ranking events. Van Veen made the semi-finals at the 2023 European Championship and the quarter-finals at the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts.

Career

2022

On 4 November 2022, van Veen reached the final of the Players Championship 29 event, losing 4–8 to Gerwyn Price in the final.^[3]

On 16 November 2022, it was announced that Peter Wright had pulled out of competing in the 2022 Players Championship Finals. van Veen, as the first reserve, took Wright's place.^[4] He lost to Ross Smith 6–2 in the first round.

2023

On 15 January 2023, he won a two-year PDC Tour Card by finishing 9th on the European Q-School Order of Merit at Q-School. van Veen reached his first quarter final of the year at the Players Championship 3 event. On 3 March, he made his debut at the 2023 UK Open, winning 6–4 against Robert Owen in the first round with an average of 100.15, before bettering his average to 100.67 in a 6–5 win over Scott Waites. Despite producing a third consecutive ton plus average of 101.68, van Veen lost 6–3 to Jim Williams in the third round (last 64). Van Veen reached his second quarter final of 2023 at the sixth Players Championship tournament, emulating this achievement in the eight event. In-between this and the 2023 European Darts Grand Prix, van Veen picked up a further two wins on the Players Championship circuit. The European Darts Grand Prix was van Veen's second European Tour event of the year (after a loss in the opening round of the 2023 Dutch Darts Championship). There, he reached his maiden quarter final on the Euro Tour stage, losing 4–6 to Luke Humphries, on the back of 6–3, 6–4 and 6–5 wins against, respectively, Josh Rock (last 16), Danny Noppert (last 32) and Jermaine Wattimena (last 48). The check for £6,000 propelled van Veen ten places up the rankings to number 87. On the European Championship later that year, he got in the semi-finals after beating Damon Heta, Daryl Gurney and Michael van Gerwen. However, he then lost to James Wade 11–9.^[5]

2024

Van Veen made his debut at the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, losing in the first round to Man Lok Leung 2–3.

On the Pro Tour, van Veen played at the 2024 PDC Players Championship series. At Players Championship 1, he won against Jeffrey de Graaf 6–1, then defeated Benjamin Reus, Ross Smith, Kim Huybrechts and Brendan Dolan 6–5 respectively, before losing to Ryan Searle in the semi-finals.^[6]

On the Winmau Development Tour, van Veen played at the 2024 PDC Development Tour series. He reached the final at event 2, losing to Keane Barry 4–5,^[7] and won Event 5, with a 5–0 whitewash victory over Dylan Slevin in the final.^[8]

Having been defeated by Luke Littler in the previous year's final, van Veen defeated fellow Dutchman Jurjen van der Velde 6–5 to win the 2024 World Youth Championship.^[9]

World Championship results

PDC

• 2024: First round (lost to Man Lok Leung 2–3)
• 2025: Second round (lost to Ricardo Pietreczko 1–3)

Performance timeline

Tournament	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
PDC Ranked televised events
PDC World Championship					1R
UK Open	DNQ			3R	6R
World Matchplay	DNQ				1R
World Grand Prix	DNQ				1R
European Championship	DNP		DNQ	SF	1R
Grand Slam of Darts	DNQ			RR	QF
Players Championship Finals	DNP		1R	2R	1R
PDC Non-ranked events
World Series of Darts Finals	DNP				1R
World Youth Championship	2R	DNQ	RR	F	W
Career statistics
Year-end ranking (PDC)	–	–	103	43

PDC European Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
2022	IDO DNQ	GDC 1R	GDG DNQ	ADO DNP	EDO DNP	CDO DNP	EDG DNP	DDC DNQ	EDM DNP	HDT DNP	GDO DNP	BDO 1R	GDT DNQ
2023	BSD DNQ	EDO DNQ	IDO DNQ	GDG DNQ	ADO DNQ	DDC 1R	BDO DNQ	CDO DNQ	EDG QF	EDM QF	GDO 2R	HDT 3R	GDC 2R
2024	BDO 1R	GDG 2R	IDO 2R	EDG 1R	ADO QF	BSD 2R	DDC 3R	EDO QF	GDC 3R	FDT 3R	HDT F	SDT 2R	CDO 3R

PDC Players Championships

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
2022[nb 1]	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	NIE DNP	NIE DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	NIE DNP	NIE DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR QF	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR F	BAR 3R
2023	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR QF	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR QF	HIL 1R	HIL QF	WIG 1R	WIG 3R	LEI 2R	LEI 1R	HIL 1R	HIL 1R	LEI 1R	LEI DNP	HIL 2R	HIL F	BAR 4R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR SF	BAR 2R	BAR QF	BAR SF
2024	WIG SF	WIG 4R	LEI 2R	LEI 4R	HIL 3R	HIL 1R	LEI 3R	LEI SF	HIL 4R	HIL 4R	HIL 3R	HIL 4R	MIL 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	MIL 2R	MIL 3R	MIL 1R	MIL 3R	WIG 4R	WIG QF	MIL 3R	MIL 2R	WIG 4R	WIG 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	LEI 3R	LEI 1R

PDC Development Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
2021 EU	NIE SF	NIE 4R	NIE 5R	NIE 4R	NIE 4R	NIE QF	NIE 5R	NIE 1R	NIE 4R	NIE 3R	NIE 4R	NIE 4R
2022	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	WIG 2R	WIG 3R	WIG SF	HIL F	HIL 4R	HIL 4R	HIL 3R	HIL 3R	HIL 3R	HIL 2R	HIL W	HIL 2R	HIL 2R	WIG QF	WIG QF	WIG 1R	WIG 1R
2023	MIL 3R	MIL 3R	MIL 1R	MIL W	MIL QF	MIL DNP	WIG DNP	WIG W	WIG 5R	WIG W	HIL 5R	HIL SF	HIL W	HIL 5R	HIL 2R	LEI 3R	LEI W	LEI QF	LEI F	LEI F	MIL 1R	MIL SF	MIL W	MIL 3R
2024	MIL 2R	MIL F	MIL QF	MIL 6R	MIL W	HIL SF	HIL W	HIL QF	HIL 6R	HIL F	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP

1. Not a Tour card holder

Performance Table Legend
W	Won the tournament	F	Finalist	SF	Semifinalist	QF	Quarterfinalist	#R RR L#	Lost in # round Round-robin Last # stage	DQ	Disqualified
DNQ	Did not qualify	DNP	Did not participate	WD	Withdrew	NH	Tournament not held			NYF	Not yet founded

References

1. "Gian van Veen – Mastercaller".
2. "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
3. "Gerwyn Price beats Dutch youngster Gian van Veen to claim title". Sporting Life. 4 November 2022.
4. Gorton, Josh (16 November 2024). "Wright withdraws from PC Finals; schedule of play confirmed". PDC. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
5. Beesten, Dennis van (29 October 2023). "Van Veen gestrand in halve finale EK". Darts Actueel (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 October 2023.
6. "Players Championship 1". pdc.tv. 12 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
7. Gorton, Josh (23 February 2024). "Jansen & Barry star on opening day of 2024 Winmau Development Tour". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
8. Allen, Dave (25 February 2024). "Superb Van Veen seals Winmau Development Tour Event Five win". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
9. Allen, Dave (24 November 2024). "Van Veen becomes first Dutch winner of Winmau World Youth Championship". PDC.tv. Retrieved 24 November 2024.

External links

• Gian van Veen player profile at Darts Orakel
• Gian van Veen – Mastercaller