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Luke Littler has become the youngest world champion in darts history after the 17-year-old Englishman lived up to his billing as Britain's latest sporting superstar. Littler has beaten three-time champion Michael van Gerwen 7-3 in the final at a boisterous Alexandra Palace in London on Friday. It completes the remarkable rise of Littler. He is a prodigy from Warrington in northwest England who first threw a dart as an 18-month-old toddler, was junior world champion in 2023 and reached the world final last year at age 16 before losing to top-ranked Luke Humphries. That catapulted him to stardom and made him famous far beyond darts while lifting the sport into the mainstream like in its heyday in the 1980s.
