Please answer the following question: This article is about the English darts players. For the Canadian hockey player see Doug McCarthy (ice hockey).Doug McCarthy is an English darts player.McCarthy played in four BDO World Darts Championships. In 1979 he beat Charlie Ellix in the first round but lost in round two to John Lowe. In 1980 McCarthy beat Conrad Daniels in round one before losing to Jocky Wilson in the second round. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete