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
[edit]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]
|
1. |  Fritzi Gordon |
Rixi Markus
| |
| 2. |  Fanny Parienté |
Marianne Serf
| ||
| [a] | 3. |  Dorothy Hayden |
Helen Portugal
| |
| 1966 [4]
|
1. | Joan Durran |
Jane Juan
| |
| 2. | Nancy Gruver |
Sue Sachs
| ||
| [a] | 3. | Mary Jane Farell |
Peggy Solomon
| |
| 1970 [5]
|
1. | Mary Jane Farell |
Marilyn Johnson
| |
| 2. | Fritzi Gordon |
Rixi Markus
| ||
| [a] | 3. |  Britt Blom |
Gunborg Silborn
| |
| 1974 [6]
|
[b] | 1. | Fritzi Gordon |
Rixi Markus
|
| 2. |  Gerda Goslar |
Rita Jacobson
| ||
| 3. | Emma Jean Hawes |
Dorothy Hayden Truscott
| ||
| 1978 [7]
|
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]
|
1. | Betty Ann Kennedy |
Carol Sanders
| |
| 2. | Lynn Deas |
Beth Palmer
| ||
| 3. | Sally Horton |
Sandra Landy
| ||
| 1986 [9]
|
1. | Amalya Kearse |
Jacqui Mitchell
| |
| 2. |  Bettina Kalkerup |
Charlotte Palmund
| ||
| 3. | Sally Horton |
Sandra Landy
| ||
| 1990 [10]
|
1. | Karen McCallum |
Kerri Shuman
| |
| 2. | Judi Radin |
Kathie Wei
| ||
| 3. |  Carla Arnolds |
Bep Vriend
| ||
| 1994 [11]
|
1. | Carla Arnolds |
Bep Vriend
| |
| 2. | Véronique Bessis |
Catherine Saul
| ||
| 3. | Lynn Deas |
Beth Palmer
| ||
| 1998 [12][13]
|
1. | Jill Meyers |
Shawn Quinn
| |
| 2. |  Daniela von Arnim |
Sabine Auken
| ||
| 3. | Véronique Bessis |
Catherine D'Ovidio
| ||
| 2002 [14][15]
|
97 | 1. | Karen McCallum |
Debbie Rosenberg
|
| 2. | Blandine de Hérédia |
Anne-Frédérique Lévy
| ||
| 3. | Irina Levitina |
Kerri Sanborn
| ||
| 2006 [16][17]
|
109 | 1. | Irina Levitina |
Kerri Sanborn
|
| 2. |  WANG Hongli |
WANG Wenfei
| ||
| 3. | Sabine Auken |
Janice Seamon-Molson
| ||
| 2010 [18][19]
|
81 | 1. | Lynn Deas |
Beth Palmer
|
| 2. |  Susan Culham |
Kismet Fung
| ||
| 3. | Carla Arnolds |
Bep Vriend
| ||
| 2014 [2]
|
46[c] | 1. | Liu Shu |
Zhou Tao
|
| 2. | Huang Yen |
Gan Lin
| ||
| 3. |  Suci Amita Dewi |
Kristina Wahyo Murniati
| ||
| 2018 [20]
|
51 | 1. | Veronique Bessis |
Anne-Laure Huberschwiller
|
| 2. | Kathy Sulgrove |
Candace Griffey
| ||
| 3. | Yan Huang |
Nan Wang
| ||
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c [citation needed] The WBF currently lists only the winners and runners up, neither third place nor the size of the field.
- ^ 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.
- ^ There were 46 initial entries in 2014, excluding drop-ins from the teams.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Results (linked schedule), 12th World Bridge Championships, 2006. WBF.
- ^ a b c "The results from the Red Bull World Bridge Series". WBF. October 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
- ^ Results & Participants, 1st World Women's Pairs Championship, 1962. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 2nd World Women's Pairs Championship, 1966. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 3rd World Women's Pairs Championship, 1970. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 4th World Open Pairs Championship, 1974. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 5th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1978. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 6th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1982. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 7th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1986. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 8th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1990. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 9th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1994. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 10th World Women's Pairs Championship, 1998. WBF.
- ^ 1998 World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 1998. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, 11th World Championships, 2002. WBF.
- ^ World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2002. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, Women Pairs, 2006. WBF.
- ^ 12th World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2006. WBF.
- ^ Results & Participants, Women Pairs, 2010. WBF.
- ^ 13th World Bridge Series contemporary coverage, 2010. WBF.
- ^ "Results & Participants". WBF. October 2018. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
External links
[edit]- Women program top page at the World Bridge Federation
- World Women Pairs Championship 1962–present (table) at the World Bridge Federation