Complex sentence: Even with two versions of the World Championship in operation, Lim's achievement was not repeated for nearly 19 years until January 2 2009, when Raymond van Barneveld became only the second person to achieve the feat and the first since the split in darts.
Split into simpler sentences: Even with two versions of the World Championship in operation, Lim's achievement was not repeated for nearly 19 years. On January 2,2009 Raymond van Barneveld became only the second person to achieve the feat and the first since the split in darts.