Dragutin Horvat
German darts player (born 1976)
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Dragutin Horvat (born 8 January 1976) is a German professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He has won two titles on the PDC's secondary tour, the Challenge Tour. He made his first PDC European Tour quarter-final at the 2016 International Darts Open.
| Dragutin Horvat | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||||
| Nickname | Hercules | ||||
| Born | 8 January 1976 Kassel, Germany | ||||
| Darts information | |||||
| Playing darts since | 2007 | ||||
| Darts | 21g Bull's | ||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||
| Walk-on music | "Freed from Desire" by Gala | ||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||
| PDC | 2012–present | ||||
| Current world ranking | (PDC) 147  1 (29 July 2026)[1] | ||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||||
| World Championship | Last 64: 2017 | ||||
| Other tournament wins | |||||
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Career
Horvat reached the quarter-finals of the 2016 International Darts Open, defeating Ricky Evans, Gerwyn Price and Ian White before being eliminated by Kim Huybrechts.[2]
Horvat qualified for the 2017 PDC World Darts Championship after defeating Stefan Stoyke 10–6 in the final of the Superleague Germany finals event.[3] He beat Russia's Boris Koltsov in a sudden-death leg in the preliminary round, but was then beaten 3–0 by Simon Whitlock in the first round.[4][5]
In March 2023, Horvat won Challenge Tour 9, whitewashing Christian Kist 5–0 in the final.[6] In November, he qualified for the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship after beating Pascal Rupprecht 8–3 in the Super League Darts 2023.[7] He lost 0–3 to Mike De Decker in the first round.[8]
In 2025, Horvat won a second Challenge Tour title at Challenge Tour 6, defeating Ted Evetts 5–4 in the final.[9]
World Championship results
PDC
- 2017: First round (lost to Simon Whitlock 0–3)
- 2024: First round (lost to Mike De Decker 0–3)
Performance timeline
PDC
| Tournament | 2017 | 2024 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Championship | 1R | 1R | ||||||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||
| Year-end ranking | 140 | 175 | ||||||||||
European Tour
| Tournament | 2013 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Trophy | 1R | 1R | |||||||||
| German Masters | 1R | 2R | |||||||||
| International Open | QF | 1R | 1R | ||||||||
| European Grand Prix | 1R | 1R | 1R | ||||||||
| European Open | 1R | 1R | |||||||||
| German Open | 1R | 2R | |||||||||
| Dutch Masters | 2R | ||||||||||
| Danish Open | 1R | ||||||||||
| European Matchplay | 1R | ||||||||||
| German Grand Prix | 1R | 1R | 2R | ||||||||
| German Championship | 2R | 1R | |||||||||
| European Matchplay | 1R | ||||||||||
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 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023[nb 1] | Did not participate | HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
LEI DNP |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
Did not participate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024[nb 1] | Did not participate | WIG 2R |
WIG 1R |
Did not participate | LEI 1R |
LEI 1R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025[nb 1] | Did not participate | ROS 1R |
ROS 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
Did not participate | HIL 2R |
HIL 3R |
Did not participate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Not a Tour card holder
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR Prel. |
Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round |
DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||
