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World Women Pairs Championship

The World Women Pairs Championship is a bridge championship held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships. It is restricted to women pairs only.

Results

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

In 2006 the Women Pairs played Saturday to Friday, the 8th to 14th days of the meet, with five qualifying sessions, five semifinal sessions, and four final sessions. At the start of qualifying, sixteen teams remained in the knockout stage of the marquee teams competition for women, for the McConnell Cup. During qualifying sessions for the pairs, the McConnell teams were reduced from sixteen to four, and players from the twelve "knocked out" teams were eligible to enter pairs competition at the semifinal stage. There were 109 pairs in the qualifier, 63 in the semifinal, and 36 in the final.[1]

United States pairs have won ten of 14 tournaments through 2014, Great Britain two, Netherlands one, China one. Fritzi Gordon and Rixi Markus of Great Britain (native Austrians) are the only two-time champion pair; Americans Karen McCallum and Kerri Sanborn/Shuman also have two wins each including one as partners in 1990. Sanborn is also the only winner of two gold medals in the World Mixed Pairs Championship, which is contested at the same quadrennial meet.[2]

Year, Site Entries Medalists
1962 [3]


Cannes, France

1.    Fritzi Gordon   Rixi Markus
2.   Fanny Parienté   Marianne Serf
[a] 3.   Dorothy Hayden   Helen Portugal
1966 [4]


Amsterdam, Netherlands 

1.   Joan Durran   Jane Juan
2.   Nancy Gruver   Sue Sachs
[a] 3.   Mary Jane Farell   Peggy Solomon
1970 [5]


Stockholm, Sweden

1.   Mary Jane Farell   Marilyn Johnson
2.   Fritzi Gordon   Rixi Markus
[a] 3.   Britt Blom   Gunborg Silborn
1974 [6]


Las Palmas, Spain

[b] 1.   Fritzi Gordon   Rixi Markus
2.   Gerda Goslar   Rita Jacobson
3.   Emma Jean Hawes   Dorothy Hayden Truscott  
1978 [7]


New Orleans, USA

1.   Judi Radin   Kathie Wei
2.   Betty Ann Kennedy   Carol Sanders
3.   Claude Blouquit   Élisabeth Delor
After 1980 it was determined that the world championships in even years would continue to be played in Europe and North America. 
1982 [8]


Biarritz, France

1.   Betty Ann Kennedy   Carol Sanders
2.   Lynn Deas   Beth Palmer
3.   Sally Horton   Sandra Landy
1986 [9]


Miami Beach, USA

1.   Amalya Kearse   Jacqui Mitchell
2.   Bettina Kalkerup   Charlotte Palmund
3.   Sally Horton   Sandra Landy
1990 [10]


Geneva, Switzerland

1.   Karen McCallum   Kerri Shuman
2.   Judi Radin   Kathie Wei
3.   Carla Arnolds   Bep Vriend
1994 [11]


Albuquerque, USA

1.   Carla Arnolds   Bep Vriend
2.   Véronique Bessis   Catherine Saul
3.   Lynn Deas   Beth Palmer
1998 [12][13]


Lille, France

1.   Jill Meyers   Shawn Quinn
2.   Daniela von Arnim   Sabine Auken
3.   Véronique Bessis   Catherine D'Ovidio
2002 [14][15]


Montreal, Canada

97 1.   Karen McCallum   Debbie Rosenberg
2.   Blandine de Hérédia     Anne-Frédérique Lévy
3.   Irina Levitina   Kerri Sanborn
2006 [16][17]


Verona, Italy

109 1.   Irina Levitina   Kerri Sanborn
2.   WANG Hongli   WANG Wenfei
3.   Sabine Auken   Janice Seamon-Molson
2010 [18][19]


Philadelphia, USA

81 1.   Lynn Deas   Beth Palmer
2.   Susan Culham   Kismet Fung
3.   Carla Arnolds   Bep Vriend
2014 [2]


Sanya, China

46[c] 1.   Liu Shu   Zhou Tao
2.   Huang Yen   Gan Lin
3.   Suci Amita Dewi   Kristina Wahyo Murniati
2018 [20]


Orlando, USA

51 1.   Veronique Bessis   Anne-Laure Huberschwiller
2.   Kathy Sulgrove   Candace Griffey
3.   Yan Huang   Nan Wang

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c [citation needed] The WBF currently lists only the winners and runners up, neither third place nor the size of the field.
  2. ^ For 1974 to 1998 the WBF currently lists at least three leaders (3 in 1974; 36 in 1998) without the size of the field. Some of those listings may enumerate the finalists.
  3. ^ There were 46 initial entries in 2014, excluding drop-ins from the teams.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Results (linked schedule), 12th World Bridge Championships, 2006. WBF.
  2. ^ a b c "The results from the Red Bull World Bridge Series". WBF. October 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
  3. ^ Results & Participants, 1st World Women's Pairs Championship, 1962. WBF.
  4. ^ Results & Participants, 2nd World Women's Pairs Championship, 1966. WBF.
  5. ^ Results & Participants, 3rd World Women's Pairs Championship, 1970. WBF.
  6. ^ Results & Participants, 4th World Open Pairs Championship, 1974. WBF.
  7. ^ Results & Participants, 5th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1978. WBF.
  8. ^ Results & Participants, 6th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1982. WBF.
  9. ^ Results & Participants, 7th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1986. WBF.
  10. ^ Results & Participants, 8th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1990. WBF.
  11. ^ Results & Participants, 9th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1994. WBF.
  12. ^ Results & Participants, 10th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1998. WBF.
  13. ^ 1998 World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 1998. WBF.
  14. ^ Results & Participants, 11th World Championships, 2002. WBF.
  15. ^ World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2002. WBF.
  16. ^ Results & Participants, Women Pairs, 2006. WBF.
  17. ^ 12th World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2006. WBF.
  18. ^ Results & Participants, Women Pairs, 2010. WBF.
  19. ^ 13th World Bridge Series contemporary coverage, 2010. WBF.
  20. ^ "Results & Participants". WBF. October 2018. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
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