Sabine Auken ( Zenkel, born 4 January 1965) is a

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player. She has also played as Sabine Zenkel. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 24th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 4th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters"
. WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-08. She was born in

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, Bavaria. As of 2007 she resides in

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, Denmark. She and Jens Auken, a Danish bridge player, have two children, Jens Christian (b. 1995) and Maximilian (b. 1999). Maximillian has had success playing basketball, making the U14, U15 and U16 Danish national teams. At national level she plays for BC München in the 1. German Bridge-Bundesliga. She, along with

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and the BC München won the 2017 Team-Bundesliga. Zenkel and the American professional player

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traveled the world as a partnership during 1991–1992, based in Chicago. They also wrote a book, ''Preempts from A to Z'' (1993; 2nd, 1996).

Books

* ''Preempts from A to Z'',

and Sabine Zenkel (Stamford, CT: Magnus Books, 1993), 290 pp., * ''I Love This Game'', Auken and

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, editor (Master Point Press, 2006), 207 pp.,

Bridge accomplishments

Awards

* EBL Bronze Medal (1) 2010 * EBL Hall of Fame (1) 2018

Wins

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 ...

(2) 1995, 2001 World Team Championship Winners
/ref> * IOC Grand Prix Women Teams (1) 1999 * World Bridge Series (1) ** Mixed Teams (1) 2014 *

World Bridge Games The World Bridge Games are held quadrennially. The first two events were held in 2008 and 2012, in Beijing and Lille respectively, as part of the World Mind Sports Games (WMSG), and superseding the World Team Olympiad, which had been held every fou ...

(1) ** Open Pairs (1) 2016 * World Transnational Mixed Team Championships (1) 2004 *

Buffett Cup The Buffett Cup is a bridge trophy which is awarded biennially in an event between teams from Europe and the United States. The tournament is modeled on the Ryder Cup golf competition and is held in the week preceding the golf event at a nearby lo ...

(1) 2008 * European Team Championships (3) ** Women Teams (1) 1989 ** Women Pairs (3) 1995, 1997, 2001 * European Mixed Championships (3) ** Mixed Teams (1) 2000 ** Mixed Pairs (1) 1996 **Mixed Pairs (1) 1994 * European Open Bridge Championships (1) ** Open Pairs (1) 2013 *

North American Bridge Championships North American Bridge Championships (NABC) are three annual bridge tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). The "Spring", "Summer", and "Fall" NABCs are usually scheduled in March, July, and November for about eleven da ...

(14) **

Smith Life Master Women's Pairs The Smith Life Master Women's Pairs North American bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Smith Life Master Women's Pairs is a four session MP pairs event, two ...

(2) 1989, 1993 **

Jacoby Open Swiss Teams The Jacoby Open Swiss Teams national bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Jacoby Open Swiss Teams is a four session Swiss Teams event with two qualifying ...

(1) 2014 **

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 ...

(2) 1990, 2011 ** Vanderbilt (1) 2013 **

Spingold The Spingold national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Spingold is a knock-out team event that attracts the top contract bridge players in the world. T ...

(1) 2016 **

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 ...

(3) 2005, 2007, 2011 **

Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams The Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC) and is a four session board-a-match event, two qualifying sessions and two final sess ...

(3) 2005, 2009, 2010 **

Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match The Mixed Board-a-Match Teams is a bridge competition held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). From 2010 the event is officially the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams, as it is contested ...

(1) 2009

Other notable wins

Lisbon Masters Invitational 2019 Moscow Invitational Slava Cup 2010, 2016 South American Bridge Championships 2016 German Open Team Championships 2011, 2019 German Bundesliga Pair Championships 2018 German Bundesliga Team Championships 2017 1st Women Pairs Common Market Championships 1985 Bordeaux

Runners-up

(3) 1993, 2005, 2007 *

World Mixed Pairs 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 ...

(1) 1994 * Open World Women Team Championships 1998 * World Women Pairs (2) 1998, 2016 *

(2) 2006, 2010 * European Women Team Championships (3) 1991, 1995, 2002 * European Mixed Team Championships (1) 1996
European Mixed Pairs Championships 2017
*

Rockwell Mixed Pairs The Rockwell Mixed Pairs is a national bridge championship held regularly at the Spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Rockwell Trophy, donated by Helen Rockwell in 1946, is presented to the w ...

(1) 1993 **

Blue Ribbon Pairs The Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs (or simply the Blue Ribbon Pairs) is a national bridge championship held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The event is restricted to those that have wo ...

(1) 2005 **

(1) 1992 **

(1) 2002 **

(1) 1994 **

Reisinger The Reisinger national bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Reisinger is a board-a-match event. History The event is contested for the Reisinger Trophy ( ...

(1) 2012

References

External links

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Women Stars
at the

World Bridge Federation The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body of contract bridge. The WBF is responsible for world championship competitions, most of which are conducted at a few multi-event meets on a four-year cycle. The most prestigiou ...

– with biography *
Sabine Auken
at LC Authorities (no records yet; see WorldCat) {{DEFAULTSORT:Auken, Sabine 1965 births German contract bridge players Contract bridge writers Venice Cup players Sportspeople from Bamberg German expatriates in Denmark Living people