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World Mixed Pairs Championship

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

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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 2010 champions Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni, from the U.S. and Italy, were the first transnational winners, but they were succeeded by 2014 champions Kerri Sanborn and Jack Zhao from the U.S. and China. United States pairs had won seven of the preceding 11 tournaments. Sanborn also won the gold medal as Kerri Shuman in 1978, playing with Barry Crane, and she is the only double winner. Sanborn/Shuman and Sabine Auken/Zenkel of Germany have won three medals.[2]

Five champions have also won the Open or Women Pairs: Mary Jane Farell, Kerri Sanborn, 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 [3]


Amsterdam, Netherlands 

130



[a]

1.     Mary Jane Farell   Ivan Erdos
2.   Joan Durran   Maurice Weissberger
3.   Nuccia Zeppegno   Vito Pittalà
1970 [4]


Stockholm, Sweden

224



[a]

1.   Barbara Brier   Waldemar von Zedtwitz
2.   Rixi Markus   Georges Catzeflis
3.   Rima Sinder   Michael Hochzeit
1974 [5]


Las Palmas, Spain

236



[a]

1.   Loula Gordon   Tony Trad
2.   Jacqui Mitchell   Jimmy Cayne
3.   Nadine Cohen   Edmond Vial
1978 [6]


New Orleans, USA

316
[b] 		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 [7]


Biarritz, France

450
[b] 		1.   Dianna Gordon   George Mittelman
2.   Peggy Sutherlin   John Sutherlin
3.   Isabelle Viennois   Jean-Louis Viennois
1986 [8]


Miami Beach, USA

420
[b] 		1.   Pam Wittes   Jon Wittes
2.   Kerri Shuman   Bob Hamman
3.   Rozanne Pollack   Bill Pollack
1990 [9]


Geneva, Switzerland

572
[b] 		1.   Juanita Chambers   Peter Weichsel
2.   Eva-Liss Göthe   Lars Andersson
3.   Kathie Walvick   Walt Walvick
1994 [10]


Albuquerque, USA

480
[b] 		1.   Danuta Hocheker   Apolinary Kowalski
2.   Sabine Zenkel   Bob Hamman
3.   Ewa Harasimowicz   Marcin Leśniewski
1998 [11][12]


Lille, France

598
[b] 		1.   Enza Rossano   Antonio Vivaldi
2.   Claude Blouquit   Marc Bompis
3.   Sabine Auken   Jens Auken
2002 [13][14]


Montreal, Canada

434
[c] 		1.   Becky Rogers   Jeff Meckstroth
2.   Elisabeth Hugon   Jean-Jacques Palau
3.   Sabine Auken   Jens Auken
2006 [15][16]


Verona, Italy

487 1.   Karen McCallum   Matt Granovetter
2.   Jill Levin   Bobby Levin
3.   JoAnna Stansby   Lew Stansby
2010 [17][18]


Philadelphia, USA

434 1.   Donna Compton   Fulvio Fantoni
2.   Kismet Fung   Brian Glubok
3.   Joan Lewis   Robert Hopkins
2014 [2]


Sanya, China

130 1.   Kerri Sanborn   Jack Zhao (Zhao Jie)
2.   Meike Wortel   Jacek Pszczoła
3.   Wang Nan   Zhang Bangxiang

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c [citation needed] 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. ^ [citation needed] The WBF currently lists 374 pairs, 182 finalists and the remainder consolation. Perhaps there were 60 non-qualifiers who declined to play consolation.

References

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  1. ^ Results (linked schedule), 12th World Bridge Championships, 2006. WBF.
  2. ^ a b "The results from the Red Bull World Bridge Series". WBF. October 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
  3. ^ Results & Participants, 1st World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1966. WBF.
  4. ^ Results & Participants, 2nd World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1970. WBF.
  5. ^ Results & Participants, 3rd World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1974. WBF.
  6. ^ Results & Participants, 4th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1978. WBF.
  7. ^ Results & Participants, 5th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1982. WBF.
  8. ^ Results & Participants, 6th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1986. WBF.
  9. ^ Results & Participants, 7th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1990. WBF.
  10. ^ Results & Participants, 8th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1994. WBF.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 1998 World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 1998. WBF.
  13. ^ Results & Participants (Mixed Series), 11th World Championships, 2002. WBF.
  14. ^ World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2002. WBF.
  15. ^ Results & Participants, Mixed Pairs, 2006. WBF.
  16. ^ 12th World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2006. WBF.
  17. ^ Results & Participants, Mixed Pairs, 2010. WBF.
  18. ^ 13th World Bridge Series contemporary coverage, 2010. WBF.
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