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.Results (linked schedule), 12th World Bridge Championships, 2006. WBF.
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.
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 Results & Participants, 1st World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1966. WBF. Amsterdam, Netherlands
130
1. Mary Jane Farell Ivan Erdos 2. Joan Durran Maurice Weissberger 3. Nuccia Zeppegno Vito Pittalà 1970 Results & Participants, 2nd World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1970. WBF. Stockholm, Sweden
224
1. Barbara Brier Waldemar von Zedtwitz 2. Rixi Markus Georges Catzeflis 3. Rima Sinder Michael Hochzeit 1974 Results & Participants, 3rd World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1974. WBF. Las Palmas, Spain
236
1. Loula Gordon Tony Trad 2. Jacqui Mitchell Jimmy Cayne 3. Nadine Cohen Edmond Vial 1978 Results & Participants, 4th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1978. WBF. New Orleans, USA
316 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 Results & Participants, 5th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1982. WBF. Biarritz, France
450 1. Dianna Gordon George Mittelman 2. Peggy Sutherlin John Sutherlin 3. Isabelle Viennois Jean-Louis Viennois 1986 Results & Participants, 6th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1986. WBF. Miami Beach, USA
420 1. Pam Wittes Jon Wittes 2. Kerri Shuman Bob Hamman 3. Rozanne Pollack Bill Pollack 1990 Results & Participants, 7th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1990. WBF. Geneva, Switzerland
572 1. Juanita Chambers Peter Weichsel 2. Eva-Liss Göthe Lars Andersson 3. Kathie Walvick Walt Walvick 1994 Results & Participants , 8th World Mixed Pairs Championship, 1994. WBF. Albuquerque, USA
480 1. Danuta Hocheker Apolinary Kowalski 2. Sabine Zenkel Bob Hamman 3. Ewa Harasimowicz Marcin Leśniewski 1998 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.1998 World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 1998. WBF. Lille, France
598 1. Enza Rossano Antonio Vivaldi 2. Claude Blouquit Marc Bompis 3. Sabine Auken Jens Auken 2002 Results & Participants (Mixed Series) , 11th World Championships, 2002. WBF.World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2002. WBF. Montreal, Canada
434
1. Becky Rogers Jeff Meckstroth 2. Elisabeth Hugon Jean-Jacques Palau 3. Sabine Auken Jens Auken 2006 Results & Participants, Mixed Pairs, 2006. WBF.12th World Bridge Championships contemporary coverage, 2006. WBF. Verona, Italy
487 1. Karen McCallum Matt Granovetter 2. Jill Levin Bobby Levin 3. JoAnna Stansby Lew Stansby 2010 Results & Participants, Mixed Pairs, 2010. WBF.13th World Bridge Series contemporary coverage, 2010. WBF. Philadelphia, USA
434 1. Donna Compton Fulvio Fantoni 2. Kismet Fung Brian Glubok 3. Joan Lewis Robert Hopkins 2014 "The results from the Red Bull World Bridge Series" . WBF. October 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-12. Sanya, China
130 1. Kerri Sanborn Jack Zhao (Zhao Jie) 2. Meike Wortel Jacek Pszczoła 3. Wang Nan Zhang Bangxiang
See also World Open Pairs Championship World Women Pairs Championship
Notes
References
External links World Mixed Pairs Championships 1966–present (table) at the World Bridge Federation