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

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 [lower-alpha 1]	1.	Mary Jane Farell	Ivan Erdos
		2.	Joan Durran	Maurice Weissberger
		3.	Nuccia Zeppegno	Vito Pittalà
1970 [4] Stockholm, Sweden	224 [lower-alpha 1]	1.	Barbara Brier	Waldemar von Zedtwitz
		2.	Rixi Markus	Georges Catzeflis
		3.	Rima Sinder	Michael Hochzeit
1974 [5] Las Palmas, Spain	236 [lower-alpha 1]	1.	Loula Gordon	Tony Trad
		2.	Jacqui Mitchell	Jimmy Cayne
		3.	Nadine Cohen	Edmond Vial
1978 [6] New Orleans, USA	316 [lower-alpha 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 [7] Biarritz, France	450 [lower-alpha 2]	1.	Dianna Gordon	George Mittelman
		2.	Peggy Sutherlin	John Sutherlin
		3.	Isabelle Viennois	Jean-Louis Viennois
1986 [8] Miami Beach, USA	420 [lower-alpha 2]	1.	Pam Wittes	Jon Wittes
		2.	Kerri Shuman	Bob Hamman
		3.	Rozanne Pollack	Bill Pollack
1990 [9] Geneva, Switzerland	572 [lower-alpha 2]	1.	Juanita Chambers	Peter Weichsel
		2.	Eva-Liss Göthe	Lars Andersson
		3.	Kathie Walvick	Walt Walvick
1994 [10] Albuquerque, USA	480 [lower-alpha 2]	1.	Danuta Hocheker	Apolinary Kowalski
		2.	Sabine Zenkel	Bob Hamman
		3.	Ewa Harasimowicz	Marcin Leśniewski
1998 [11][12] Lille, France	598 [lower-alpha 2]	1.	Enza Rossano	Antonio Vivaldi
		2.	Claude Blouquit	Marc Bompis
		3.	Sabine Auken	Jens Auken
2002 [13][14] Montreal, Canada	434 [lower-alpha 3]	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 Pszczola
		3.	Wang Nan	Zhang Bangxiang

See also

• World Open Pairs Championship
• World Women Pairs Championship

Notes

1. on two points. WBF currently lists only the winners and runners up, neither third place nor the size of the field.
2. 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. "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.

External links

• World Mixed Pairs Championships 1966–present (table) at the World Bridge Federation