Editing Stoke-on-Trent (section)

===Individual sports persons===
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The city has a sporting Hall of Fame, opened in 2011 to honour sporting legends from the city. Former Stoke City and England footballer [[Stanley Matthews]] and former darts world champion [[Phil Taylor (darts player)|Phil Taylor]] were the first names to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/darts/8448265.stm|title=Darts champion Phil Taylor honoured by Stoke |date=8 January 2010|work=BBC Sport |access-date=2 March 2011}}</ref> They were followed by former Port Vale footballer [[Roy Sproson]] and England's World Cup winning goalkeeper [[Gordon Banks]] (who spent five years with Stoke City).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/stoke_city/9411597.stm|title=Gordon Banks inducted into Stoke-on-Trent Hall of Fame |date=2 March 2011|work=BBC Sport |access-date=2 March 2011}}</ref>

The [[World Professional Darts Championship]] was hosted in the [[Jollees]] venue in the south of the city from 1979 to 1985. Phil Taylor has won the World Championship a record 16 times, winning the championship in both the [[Professional Darts Corporation]] (PDC) and [[British Darts Organisation]] (BDO). Two-time PDC World Champion [[Adrian Lewis]] and two-time BDO World Champion [[Ted Hankey]] are also from the Stoke area. Other well-known players from or based in Stoke include [[Chris Mason (darts player)|Chris Mason]], [[Andy Hamilton (darts player)|Andy Hamilton]] and [[Ian White (darts player)|Ian White]].{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

World champion [[squash (sport)|squash]] player, Great Britain and England international [[Angela Smith (squash)|Angela Smith]], was born in the city and was largely responsible for the ladies' game going open. She is regarded as one of the most famous players of British squash.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2008/10/07/angela_smith_feature.shtml|title=Squash champ Angela Smith|date=9 October 2008|work=BBC Stoke & Staffordshire|access-date=14 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016235809/http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2008/10/07/angela_smith_feature.shtml|archive-date=16 October 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Wicket-keeper]] [[Bob Taylor (cricketer)|Bob Taylor]], who played for [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] and [[England cricket team|England]] was born and still lives in the area. He represented England 58 times and still holds the world record for the most dismissals in the first-class game (1649). In golf, Trenthams' [[David Lynn (golfer)|David Lynn]], the golfer, (born 1973) was the KLM Open Champion of 2004.<ref>[http://www.europeantour.com/publish.sps?pageid=127&pagegid=%7BAB0336D2%2DD3C9%2D469B%2DBCB6%2DBFD443B52A34%7D&playerId=7593 David LYNN] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102160654/http://www.europeantour.com/publish.sps?pageid=127&pagegid=%7BAB0336D2%2DD3C9%2D469B%2DBCB6%2DBFD443B52A34%7D&playerId=7593 |date=2 January 2009 }} europeantour.com</ref>

Other notable sports people from the area include footballer [[Aaron Ramsdale]] and former players turned pundits [[Mark Bright]], [[Garth Crooks]] and [[Robbie Earle]]; tennis player [[Andrew Foster (tennis)|Andrew Foster]]; [[snooker]] players [[Ray Reardon]], [[Dave Harold]] and [[Jamie Cope]]; [[field hockey]] player [[Imran Sherwani]]; cycling world-record holder [[Tommy Godwin (cyclist born 1912)|Tommy Godwin]], wrestler [[Peter Thornley]] (better known as [[Kendo Nagasaki]]), professional strongman [[Eddie Hall]] and European [[taekwondo]] champion [[Charlie Maddock]].{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}