World Mixed Pairs Championship

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The World Mixed Pairs Championship is a bridge championship for mixed-gender pairs held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships.

Results

World meets commonly run for 15 days on a schedule whose details vary.

In 2006 the Mixed Pairs played Saturday to Monday, the first three days of the meet, with no other events underway. There were three qualifier and three final sessions with a consolation event ("Plate") during the last two sessions. Contemporary coverage lists 481 pairs in the qualifying stage; 182 in the final stage; 238 and 232 pairs in the two-session Plate on the third day, or almost 80% of the non-qualifiers.[1]

The latest champions Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni are the first transnational winners. United States pairs have won seven of 12 tournaments. Sabine Zenkel of Germany won medals three times in a row, 1994 to 2002, but no player has won twice.

Five champions have also won the Open or Women Pairs: Mary Jane Farell, Kerri Shuman, Karen McCallum, Jeff Meckstroth, and Fulvio Fantoni. At one meet the best performances are Joan Durran winning gold and silver in 1966, Marcin Leśniewski gold and bronze in 1994.

Year, Site Entries female male
1966 [2]

Amsterdam, Netherlands 

 130


[NB 1]

 1.   Mary Jane Farell Ivan Erdos
2. Joan Durran Maurice Weissberger
3. Nuccia Zeppegno Vito Pittalà
1970 [3]

Stockholm, Sweden

 224


[NB 1]

 1. Barbara Brier Waldemar von Zedtwitz
2. Rixi Markus Georges Catzeflis
3. Rima Sinder Michael Hochzeit
1974 [4]

Las Palmas, Spain

 236


[NB 1]

 1. Loula Gordon Tony Trad
2. Jacqui Mitchell Jimmy Cayne
3. Nadine Cohen Edmond Vial
1978 [5]

New Orleans, USA

 316
[NB 2]		 1. Kerri Shuman Barry Crane
2. Heitie Noland Jim Jacoby
3. Carol Sanders Lou Bluhm
After 1980 it was determined that the world championships in even years would continue to be played in Europe and North America. 
1982 [6]

Biarritz, France

 450
[NB 2]		 1. Dianna Gordon George Mittelman
2. Peggy Sutherlin John Sutherlin
3. Isabelle Viennois Jean-Louis Viennois
1986 [7]

Miami Beach, USA

 420
[NB 2]		 1. Pam Wittes Jon Wittes
2. Kerri Shuman Bob Hamman
3. Rozanne Pollack Bill Pollack
1990 [8]

Geneva, Switzerland

 572
[NB 2]		 1. Juanita Chambers Peter Weichsel
2. Eva-Liss Göthe Lars Andersson
3. Kathie Walvick Walt Walvick
1994 [9]

Albuquerque, USA

 480
[NB 2]		 1. Danuta Hocheker Apolinary Kowalski
2. Sabine Zenkel Bob Hamman
3. Ewa Harasimowicz Marcin Leśniewski
1998 [10][11]

Lille, France

 598
[NB 2]		 1. Enza Rossano Antonio Vivaldi
2. Claude Blouquit Marc Bompis
3. Sabine Auken Jens Auken
2002 [12][13]

Montreal, Canada

 434
[NB 3]		 1. Becky Rogers Jeff Meckstroth
2. Elisabeth Hugon Jean-Jacques Palau
3. Sabine Auken Jens Auken
2006 [14][15]

Verona, Italy

 487 1. Karen McCallum Matt Granovetter
2. Jill Levin Bobby Levin
3. JoAnna Stansby Lew Stansby
2010 [16][17]

Philadelphia, USA

 434 1. Donna Compton Fulvio Fantoni
2. Kismet Fung Brian Glubok
3. Joan Lewis Robert Hopkins

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c   on two points. WBF currently lists only the winners and runners up, neither third place nor the size of the field.
  2. ^ a b c d e f   For 1978 to 1998 the WBF currently lists the leaders (top 25 in 1978; 260 in 1998) without the size of the field. Some of those listings may enumerate the finalists.
  3. ^   The WBF currently lists 374 pairs, 182 finalists and the remainder consolation. Perhaps there were 60 non-qualifiers who declined to play consolation.

References

  1. ^ Results (linked schedule), 12th World Bridge Championships, 2006. WBF.
  2. ^ Results & Participants, 1st World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1966. WBF.
  3. ^ Results & Participants, 2nd World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1970. WBF.
  4. ^ Results & Participants, 3rd World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1974. WBF.
  5. ^ Results & Participants, 4th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1978. WBF.
  6. ^ Results & Participants, 5th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1982. WBF.
  7. ^ Results & Participants, 6th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1986. WBF.
  8. ^ Results & Participants, 7th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1990. WBF.
  9. ^ Results & Participants, 8th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1994. WBF.
  10. ^ Results & Participants, 9th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1998. WBF.
    The 1st to 9th Mixed Pairs tournaments were constituents of the 2nd to 10th quadrennial meets once called "Pairs Olympiad", now called "World Bridge Series". Subsequent Mixed Pairs tournaments are not separately numbered.
  11. ^ 1998 World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 1998. WBF.
  12. ^ Results & Participants (Mixed Series), 11th World Championships, 2002. WBF.
  13. ^ World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2002. WBF.
  14. ^ Results & Participants, Mixed Pairs, 2006. WBF.
  15. ^ 12th World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2006. WBF.
  16. ^ Results & Participants, Mixed Pairs, 2010. WBF.
  17. ^ 13th World Bridge Series contemporary coverage, 2010. WBF.

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