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What is Luke Littler’s net worth and how much prize money has he won in his career?
LUKE LITTLER has enjoyed a meteoric rise to become one of the biggest stars in darts despite his age!
The prodigy, 17, has already built up an impressive net worth since his impressive debut performance at the 2023-24 World Darts Championship.
And he’ll be hoping to lift the 2024/25 World Darts Championship this time around.
Who is Luke Littler?
Luke Littler is the reigning world youth champion of darts whose nickname is ‘The Nuke’.
He has had a meteoric rise to fame after becoming the youngest player to reach the final of the World Darts Championships at Ally Pally.
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Luke was born on January 21, 2007, in the English town of Runcorn.
He later moved to Warrington, Cheshire with his family, where he would play darts in pubs.
Littler has a sister called Caitlin and a brother called Leon and his parents are Anthony and Lisa Bates.
Since the 2023-24 World Championship, The Nuke has earned himself a spot in the Premier League Darts – and currently sits top of the table as we move to the final weeks.
What is Luke Littler’s net worth?
Luke ‘The Nuke’ Litter is reportedly worth in excess of £1 million.
Teen sensation Littler banked £200,000 for losing in last year’s final to Luke Humphries and has continued pocketing huge cheques since.
His 2024 prize money currently stands at £1,028,500.
An incredible £633,500 comes from ranking events and it includes the £15,000 minimum he will get for appearing at the World Championship.
Winning the invitational Premier League and World Series of Darts banked him the other £395,000.
The huge windfall has come from winning an incredible ten titles in all.
To list them all, he has the crowns for the Premier League, Grand Slam, World Series, Bahrain Masters, Poland Masters, Austrian Open, Belgian Open, and three Players Championships.
To underline his domination, Littler has sealed victory in 145 of 189 games played.
And he is now 4th on the PDC Order of Merit.
What was Luke Littler’s rise to fame?
Although Littler was already well known as a bright talent within darts circles, it was at the 2023-24 PDC World Championships where he really found fame.
The youngster had one of the greatest debuts in the history of the sport, beating Christian Kist in the first round.
This triumph saw Littler become the youngest winner of a match at the tournament and record the highest average (106.12) for a player making his debut at Ally Pally.
The teenager then went a step further by beating No 20 seed Andrew Gilding and became one of the favourites to win the tournament.
He then blew away Canadian Matt Campbell 4-1, dropping only six legs out of 20.
Littler made it through to the semi-finals of the tournament on New Year’s Day, 2024.
He beat veteran Brendan Dolan and celebrated by sharing a kiss with his ex-girlfriend girlfriend Eloise.
The teen sensation made it all the way to the final of the prestigious competition but was beaten by World No1 Luke Humphires on the night at Alexandra Palace.
Moment Ukrainian drone strikes 400ft Russian skyscraper sparking huge blast as Putin’s city is bombarded in enemy attack
THIS is the moment Ukrainian drone strikes hit a 400ft Russian skyscraper – sparking a huge blast.
Footage shows the deadly drone flying into the 37-floor Azure skies residential tower before erupting into flames.
The moment a drone hit the Manhatten residential complex in Kazan.[/caption] Plumes of smoke erupted from the skyscraper[/caption]An aircraft-type drone was seen striking the upper part of the 399ft building and exploding.
An earlier strike had left a burning hole in the upper part of the complex.
Another tower block – the 23-floor Manhattan residential building in central Kazan – was also hit.
A drone was seen crashing into the complex, resulting in a massive explosion and fire.
Residents were told to evacuate or take cover in basements.
Separately, there was a fire in a five-story building in Kazan after a drone attack.
Firefighters were at the scenes of the attacks.
It was not immediately clear what motive was behind the strikes on the city which began at around 8:30am local time, and if there was a specific target.
The drones hit the buildings from the east, so not the “Ukrainian side”.
The nearest Ukrainian controlled territory is some 670 miles away.
Russian reports said the Lyuti drones – meaning Fierce – were behind the attack, but if so the distance would seem to be at the maximum of their range.
Kazan is the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, a region which has led the way in the manufacturing of Russian military drones.
The city has a 1.3 million population, and is known as Russia’s ‘third capital’ after Moscow and St Petersburg.
There were fears of more attacks as air raid sirens sounded, and residents were ordered to remain calm, get warmly dressed and go down to the first floors and basements .
There was no immediate information on casualties from the Kazan strikes.
Earlier in attacks on Russia’s Kursk region, five people were killed and 12 wounded in strikes on Rylsk.
A total of eight drones hit Kazan today, said the regional authorities.
Only one was shot down.
One hit an industrial enterprise, one a river, and six were struck residential areas, according to Russian sources.
The city’s international airport was closed due to the unmanned planes.
Students at a number of Kazan schools were evacuated during a drone attack.
Russian war channels said the likely target was a gunpowder plant in Kazan, and alleged the “clumsy enemy completely ignored the presence of high-rise residential buildings on their path, which led to the kamikazes colliding with high-rise buildings”.
Others claimed the target was the Kazan Aviation Plant or an airfield.
New footage shows a suspected Ukrainian drone hit the 37-floor Azure Skies elite residential tower in Kazan.
Russian air defences also shot down a drone approaching Kazan.
Meanwhile, in Rylsk, 33 miles from the Ukrainian border in Kursk region, heavy fighting was underway amid Ukrainian shelling with multiple buildings ablaze.
In Kherson, a cancer hospital was ablaze after being struck by a Russian aerial bomb.
No casualties were reported but the hospital was ablaze.
The moment a Ukrainian drone hits the Azure Skies tower block in Kazan[/caption] Local officials stand in front of a damaged residential building following a drone attack in Kazan[/caption]