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A dartboard is hung 1.73 metres up
The throw line stands 2.37 metres back from the face of the board These measurements are fixed so that every player faces the same test, and the board is set so the centre of the bull is 1.73 metres from the floor. The oche, or throw line, is 2.37 metres back. A dart must stay in the board for its score to count. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
Where this comes from
Professional Darts Corporation
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A dartboard is hung 1.73 metres up: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The throw line stands 2.37 metres back from the face of the board. The figure is taken from Professional Darts Corporation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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