Australian darts carry outer Gordon Mathers showcased a extraordinary physical alteration at Alexandra Palace on Wednesday night, having shed an incredible 50kg in equitable six months.
The 43-year-elderly Brisprohibite-born carry outer, making his first World Championship euniteance in three years, pushed England’s Ricky Evans to the confine before ultimately descfinishing to a 3-2 flunkure.
Mathers’ emotional weight loss journey, which saw him drop from 160kg to 110kg, drew meaningful attention from spectators.
“One of the most astonishive body alterations I’ve ever seen from anyone by Gordon Mathers. Incredible,” one fan posted on X.
Gordon Mathers showed off his incredible weight loss
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Mathers uncovered his weight obtain was joined to the lifestyle disputes of professional darts.
“I’ve always been huge but when I got a tour card I stopped laboring and the lifestyle of a darts carry outer isn’t the best,” he elucidateed on the TungstenTales YouTube channel.
The Australian portrayd how the irnormal schedule of tournament carry out affected his eating habits.
“You are eating at the wrong time of the night because you have to,” he shelp.
“There is noleang else uncover so it is all junk food. So I blew out reassociate awentirey until I came back to Australia.”
His weight had peaked at 160kg (25 stone) before his alteration began in March.
Gordon Mathers lost in the first round to Ricky Evans
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The motivation behind Mathers’ alteration stemmed from a proestablishly personal tragedy – the loss of his overweighther to heart flunkure at age 57.
His children’s troubles carry outed a vital role in his decision to alter.
“My kids were the catalyst to disthink about the weight because my overweighther passed away at the age of 57 with heart flunkure,” he shelp.
“So they were always into me ‘you’re going appreciate huge pop’.”
His brother’s success with weight loss sadvisery also eased his journey.
“He had the weight loss sadvisery, and I saw him go thcdisorrowfulmireful it,” Mathers shelp, inserting: “I’m down at the moment to 110kg, so 50 kg that I have lost in six or seven months and I would do it aobtain tomorrow.”
Despite his astonishive physical alteration, Mathers is still seeking his first World Championship triumph after Wednesday night’s skinny flunkure.
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The suit showd to be a thrilling contest, with Mathers pushing Ricky Evans to the final set before surrfinishering 3-2.
The evening also featured another extraordinary moment, as Dutch carry outer Christian Kist achieved the tournament’s first nine-darter in the preceding suit aobtainst Latvia’s Madars Razma.
Kist’s perfect leg triggered a £180,000 Pinserty Power bonus, split equassociate between the carry outer, Prostate Cancer research, and a randomly picked fan in the crowd.
Like Mathers, Kist’s tournament finished in flunkure, as he lost 3-1 to Razma.
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