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McConnell Cup
McConnell Cup is a team event for women held every four years as part of the World Bridge Series Championships. The event was inaugurated in 1994 and is named in honor of Ruth McConnell, former treasurer for the World Bridge Federation (WBF) and former president of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). McConnell was also instrumental in inaugurating the Venice Cup The Venice Cup is a biennial world championship contract bridge tournament for national of Women. It is contested every odd-number year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Bermuda Bowl (Open) and d'Orsi Bowl (S ... women's team championship in 1974. The full name of this championship is World Women Knockout Teams. The knockout format pertains only to the late stages, however, evidently a four-round knockout with 16 teams except for a five-round 32-team KO in 1998. It appears that the field has been divided into two groups or four groups for round-robin play, with the top eigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Bridge Series Championships
The World Bridge Championships consists of several sets of championships organized under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation. World Bridge Series Championships ''World Bridge Series Championships'' is the new 2010 name for a quadrennial meet organized by the World Bridge Federation in non-leap even years. (Another meet, the World Bridge Games, is held quadrennially in leap years.) Most of its world championship events are open in the sense that entries do not represent geographic zones or nations. The meet was inaugurated in 1962 as the ''World Pair Olympiad'' comprising the World Open Pairs Championship and World Women Pairs Championship, as well as the World Mixed Teams Championship. For the second rendition in 1966 the mixed event was for pairs, the World Mixed Pairs Championship, as it would be thereafter except in 1974. The World Knockout Teams for the Rosenblum Cup was inaugurated in 1978 and soon became the most prestigious event of the meet. A parallel knockout tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Von Arnim
Daniela von Arnim (born 10 July 1964 in Munich) is a German bridge player. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 35th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 13th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-10. (Her longtime partner played Open and Mixed events with in 2014, rather than enter Women events.) Arnim, or Von Arnim, is a 2-time world champion winning the |
Sylvie Willard
Sylvie Willard (born 7 August 1952) is a French bridge player. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October) ranked 4th among 73 living Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 8th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-07. 
Life Willard was born in on the coast near the northwest tip of France. She was one of 8 children of Nicole and Irénée Bajos de Heredia.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine D'Ovidio
Catherine D'Ovidio (1959 – 28 August 2020) was a French bridge player. She was 61 years old. Bridge accomplishments Wins * World Mixed Teams (1) 2004World Mixed Teams Championship * Venice Cup (2) 2005, 2011 * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 2013 Runners-up * World Mixed Teams (1) 2000World Mixed Teams Championship * Venice Cup (1) 2001 * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams The Machlin Women's Swiss Teams North American bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Machlin Women's Swiss Teams is a four-session Swiss Teams event with tw ... (1) 2010 References External links * 1959 births 2020 deaths French contract bridge players {{France-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bénédicte Cronier
Bénédicte Cronier is a French bridge player. Cronier was born in 1961. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Venice Cup (2) 2005, 2011 * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2015 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 2011 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 2009, 2010, 2013 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 2011 Runners-up * Venice Cup (2) 1987, 2001 * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2012 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams is a knock-out team event. The event is restric ... (2) 2012, 2013 References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cronier, Benedicte French contract bridge players Venice Cup players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hjördis Eythorsdottir
Hjördis "Disa" Eythorsdottir (born 24 July 1965) is an Iceland-born American bridge player. She is from Reykjavik. Eythorsdottir was stripped of a silver medal at the 2002 world championships in Montreal for refusing to take a drug test covering substances banned by the IOC. Eythorsdottir claims she was on a prescription diet drug connected with a back condition. She had asked the authorities if the drug was banned. She did not have a certificate to cover the prescription. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (9) ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 2010 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (3) 1994, 1998, 2000 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 2012 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 2006 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1994, 2001, 2002 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (13) ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 2009 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1997 ** Grand National Teams (1) 1997 ** Machlin Women's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerri Sanborn
Sharon Lou "Kerri" Sanborn (born July 29, 1946) is an American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Kerri Davis and Kerri Shuman as well. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Sanborn ranked 25th among 73 living Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 7th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-10. 
As Kerri Shuman during 1974, Sanborn earned the greatest number of in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Palmer
Mary "Beth" Palmer (August 14, 1952 – October 2, 2019) was an American bridge player from Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was an attorney. At the time of her death, she was 11th in the World Bridge Federation women's rankings by PPs (which do not age off) and 15th by MPs."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2019-10-02 At the in Beijing, December 2011, Palmer and won the "Pairs Women" gold medal. Not a world championship meet, the SportAccord WMG invited 24 women from Great Britain, France, China, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Levitina
Irina Solomonovna Levitina (born June 8, 1954) is a Russian-American chess and bridge player. In chess, she has been a World Championship Candidate in 1984 and gained the title Woman Grandmaster. In contract bridge she has won five world championship events, four women and two mixed, including play on two world-champion USA women teams. Chess career In 1973, she tied for 2nd–5th in Menorca (interzonal). In 1974, she beat Valentina Kozlovskaya 6,5 : 5,5 in Kislovodsk (semifinal match). In 1975, she lost to Nana Alexandria 8 : 9 in a final match in Moscow. In 1977, she lost to Alla Kushnir 3 : 6 in a quarterfinal match in Dortmund. In 1982, she took 2nd in Tbilisi (interzonal). In 1983, she beat Nona Gaprindashvili 6 : 4 in Lvov (quarterfinal), and Alexandria 7,5 : 6,5 in Dubna (semifinal). In 1984, she beat Lidia Semenova 7 : 5 in Sochi (final) and became World Women's Championship Challenger. Levitina lost to Maia Chiburdanidze 5½ : 8½ in a title match at Volgograd 1984. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Deas
Lynn Davis Deas (June 16, 1952 – May 10, 2020) was a professional American bridge player. At the time of her death, she was second in the World Bridge Federation (WBF) All time Women Ranking by Placement Points, which do not decay over time. Deas was a native of Newport News, Virginia, near Norfolk, where she was a student at Eastern Virginia Medical School when she suffered a bad automobile accident in 1980. Already an avid bridge player, she played "all the time" when broken bones and blurry vision forced her to take one-year leave from school, and subsequently decided to drop out in favor of the card game as a career. Deas won 27 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) titles and nine world championships, including three in the Venice Cup. At one time Deas ranked first among Women World Grand Masters. At one time she was on the road as a professional player for 30 weeks a year. She was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 1997 and reduced her travel. In January 2012, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Truscott
Dorothy Hayden Truscott (November 3, 1925 – July 4, 2006) was an American bridge player, winner of four world championships and the top-ranked woman for many years. In the late 1960s, she authored two books on the game and later co-authored two with her husband Alan Truscott. Her 1966 book, Bid Better, Play Better is considered a classic and was progressively updated. Early and later life Truscott was born as Dorothy Johnson in New York City. Her parents, Dorothy and Reginald Johnson, were keen bridge players and taught their daughter the game when she was 7 years old. Truscott would normally watch her mother play the game, but her father would allow her to bid and play his hand when he poured drinks. One evening a player was late, and she was allowed to fill in. That introduction made her a "bridge addict" for the remainder of her life. She graduated from Smith College and briefly taught mathematics in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her first two marriages ended in divorce. Her third, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Sanders
Carol Melton Sanders (July 30, 1932 – August 28, 2012) was an American Contract bridge, bridge player from Nashville, Tennessee. She was married to Thomas K. Sanders, also a bridge player. She won four world championships, all in partnership with Betty Ann Kennedy of Louisiana. Sanders and Kennedy were known as the Belles or Southern Belles. They compiled 10 NABC wins and 8 runners-up together. Both Carol and Tom Sanders were inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2002. Sanders was the only child of Beulah and Clarence Melton. She died in Nashville in 2012, less than a year after the death of her husband. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 2002"Induction by Year" . ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16. Wins * North American Bridge Championships (16) ** Whitehead Wome ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
