Gian van Veen

About

Short answer: Gian van Veen, known as "The Giant", is a Dutch professional who won the 2025 European Championship, reached the 2026 PDC World Championship final and throws 21g Red Dragon darts. We stock his Red Dragon range, led by the Tour Edition Switch Point, with the Tour Edition, Axis Special Edition and original signature darts and his Hardcore flights. Nickname The Giant Country Netherlands Born 2002 Darts brand Red Dragon Dart weight 21g Throws Right-handed Walk-on Astronomia – Tony Igy and Vicetone Titles and achievements PDC World Championship runner-up 2026 European Championship 2025 PDC World Youth Championship 2024, 2025 Players Championship 6 2025 PDC Development Tour titles (9) 2022 to 2024 Who is Gian van Veen? Gian van Veen is a professional darts player from Poederoijen in Gelderland, born in 2002. He throws right-handed and was ranked third in the world on the PDC Order of Merit as of October 2026. He missed out on a Tour Card at Q-School in 2022 and spent that year on the Challenge Tour, where he won an event. He won a two-year Tour Card at the European Q-School in January 2023 and topped the 2023 Development Tour Order of Merit, with nine Development Tour titles between 2022 and 2024. He won the PDC World Youth Championship in 2024 and retained it in 2025, beating Beau Greaves 6-3 in the final. How did Gian van Veen break through? His first ranking title came at Players Championship 6 in 2025, where he beat Luke Humphries 8-3 in the final. Later that year he beat Humphries again, 11-10 in a last-leg decider, to win the European Championship in Dortmund for his first major title. How did Gian van Veen reach the World Championship final? At the 2026 World Championship he knocked out Humphries, then beat Gary Anderson 6-3 in the semi-finals. He lost the final 7-1 to Luke Littler on 3 January 2026. He made his Premier League debut in 2026 and reached world number two in August 2026. In February 2026 he hit his first televised nine-darter, in the Pol