"Noa-Lynn van Leuven isn't a morning person. Ever since she was young, she remembers struggling, as many people do, to escape the warm, safe confines of her bed. Her pre-12 am struggles were at their worst while working as a baker in her hometown of Beverwijk, a small town on the western cost of the Netherlands 21 miles from Amsterdam."
"The main focus of news stories around Noa is the fact that fellow darts play Deta Hedman twice refused to compete against her, after losing to Noa in the 2023 Dutch Open. Since then, Noa has been vilified by gender-critical figures and the hostile right-wing media as an obstacle who supposedly "stole" Hedman's and other women's chances at victory and is undeserving of her accolades."
"In fact, she says her family was built on the back of darts. Noa's relationship with her family and darts are intertwined "My parents met each other in the pub whilst playing darts," she tells me. "My grandfather on my mum's side, who I've never actually met, played darts. And my dad played darts. That's where [my mum and dad] met each other.""
Noa-Lynn van Leuven is a professional darts player from Beverwijk who has won three golds, two silvers, and a bronze. She historically struggled with mornings while working as a baker and regularly woke at 5am to get to work. Controversy followed her 2023 Dutch Open matches after Deta Hedman twice refused to compete against her; critics and right-wing media have since vilified her and accused her of stealing other players' chances. Noa later lost the tournament 4-0 to Aildeen de Graaf. Her family has deep darts roots: her parents met playing darts and her earliest memories involve watching her father play.
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