The 14th World Youth Team Championships

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Juniors	Youngsters	Girls

 

Last Playing Day

Gold Medals

Netherlands Juniors Gold Medal: coach Agnes Snellers, Aarnout Helmich, Joris van Lankveld, Gerbrand Hop, Chris Westerbeek, Ernst Wackwitz, Berend van den Bos, npp Bob Drijver	Poland Youngsters Gold Medal: Lukasz Witkowski, Michal Klukowski, Michal Gulczynski, Andrzej Terszak, Wojciech Kazmierczak, Igor Losiewicz, npc Wlodzimierz Krzysztofczyk, coach Stanislaw ‘Bubu’ Golebiowski sneaked in on both photos	Poland Girls Gold Medal: coach Miroslaw Cichocki, Justyna Zmuda, Natalia Sakowska, Kamila Wesolowska, Magdalena Holeksa, Katarzyna Dufrat, Danuta Kazmucha, npc Leszek Nowak

Plate Medals

Israel Juniors: Lotan Fisher, Gal Gerstner, Moshe Meyuchas, npc Gilad Ofir, Dror Padon, Lee Rosenthal, Eyal Erez	USA1 Youngsters: Adam Kaplan, Andrew Jeng, Richard Jeng, Zachary Brescoll, Zachary Grossack, Adam Grossack	Netherlands Girls: Janneke Wackwitz, Sigrid Spangenberg, Natalia Banas, Magie Ticha, Jamilla Spangenberg, Judith Nab

Bronze Medals

China Juniors: Ku Lai, Shen Jianqiu, Shao Yinpei, Chen Yichao, Hu Junjie,Jiang Yujie, npc Wang Xiaofeng	France Youngsters: Baptiste Combescure, npc Christophe Oursel, Fabrice Charignon, Julien Bernard, Clement Laboureyre, Grégoire Lafont, Ivan Caillau.	Italy Girls: Giorgia Botta, Margherita Costa, Michela Salvato, Flavia Lanzuisi, npc Emanuela Capriata, Margherita Chavarria, Federica Butto

Penultimate Playing Day

Two latinamericans in Taicang: Gerardo Zummel Argentina NPC  y Veronica Chediak Norway coach.

With 32 boards to end this are the last standings en each category:

The Transnational Teams Final Ranking, these are the first 10 positions:

All the positions: Click Aqui

In the matches for the gold medals, the most exciting is the Junior final, which got closer following an Israeli charge late in the third session. The Netherlands leads Israel
by 126 IMPs to 110.3. In the Youngsters, Poland leads USA1 by 145 IMPs to 100.3.
And in the Girls, Poland has a 32-IMP advantage over the Netherlands, being
ahead by 150-118. The trailing teams will be hoping for some exciting deals in the last two sessions. Congratulations to the three bronze medal winners. In the Open, China defeated Australia by 137 IMPs to 126.5. Their team is Yichao Chen, Junjie Hu, Yujie Jiang, Kai Lu, Yinpei Shao and Jianqiu Shen, with Xiaofeng Wang the non-playing captain and Xueming Fu the coach. In the Youngsters, the medals go to France: Julian Bernard, Ivan Cailliau, Fabrice Charignon, Baptiste Combescure, Gregoire Lafont and Clement Laloubeyre, with Christophe Oursel the npc. They defeated Israel by 125 IMPs to 107. And in the Girls, Italy were third, defeating France by 127.3 IMPs to 103. The Italian team is Giorgia Botta, Federica Butto, Margherita Chavarria, Margherita Costa, Flavia Lanzuisi and Michela Salvato, with Emanuela Capriata the npc. The winners of the Transnational Teams were Che Shen, Hongji Wei, Jia Shen Yin and Yichen Yin, with Xiaofeng Wang as the npc and Jichao Hu the coach. They were two-thirds of the China Youngsters team, playing under the name China RDFZ.

8th Playing Day: The Semifinals Ended

Final Juniors: Netherlands vs. Israel.

Juniors Semifinals		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	NETHERLANDS	10	36	46	42	88	67	155	68	223
	AUSTRALIA	0	13	13	43	56	7	63	48	111
		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	ISRAEL	4	21	25	61	86	30	116	65	181
	CHINA	0	39	39	27	66	11	77	30	107

Final Youngsters: Poland vs USA1

Youngsters Semifinals		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	POLAND	10	52	62	62	124	38	162	72	234
	FRANCE	0	21	21	20	41	52	93	19	112
		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	USA1	0	14	14	40	54	54	108	74	182
	ISRAEL	10	45	55	55	110	28	138	12	150

Final Girls: Netherland vs Poland

Girls Semifinals		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	NETHERLANDS	10	43	53	45	98	18	116	53	169
	ITALY	0	33	33	24	57	43	100	24	124
Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	POLAND	10	32	42	33	75	55	130	44	174
	FRANCE	0	47	47	36	83	32	115	30	145

Transnational teams first 10 positions after 4 rounds

Final Rankings
1	CHINA MIXED	78
2	CHINA GIRLS	77
3	SINGAPORE JUNIORS	75
4	KOELESKAB	73
	ITALY 2	73
	ITALY YOUNGSTERS	73
7	ARGENT. 2014	72
8	CHN RDFZ	71
9	NORWAY	70
10	DOWN UNDER	69

All Positions Click Here

7th Playing Day: In the Juniors, three quarterfinal matches were won comfortably. The Netherlands beat Singapore by 84 IMPs,

Australia defeated USA1 by 61, and China won over France by 110. The fourth match between Israel and Italy was close throughout. Italy started the last session up by 25 IMPs. After six boards, though, Israel were in front. Italy regained the lead two boards later. But Israel immediately gained 12 IMPs to take a lead they never lost, winning by 23 IMPs. In the Youngsters, France won by 72.5 IMPs over Italy, despite losing a few points in the first quarter. And USA1 won well over Australia, although the Antipodeans made the score closer in the last session, losing by 24.3 IMPs. In contrast, Israel beat Sweden by only 7 IMPs after being 30 ahead at halftime. And England won the first set against Poland by 57 IMPs, but Poland took the next three sessions, including an emphatic fourth quarter, to win by 60. The 56-board semifinals are Netherlands-Australia and Israel-China in the Juniors. Poland-France and USA1-Israel in the Youngsters. And Netherlands-Italy and Poland-France in the Girls.

Semifinal Line-Up – Juniors: Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Trophy

NETHERLANDS (+10)   VS	AUSTRALIA
ISRAEL (+4)               VS	CHINA

Semifinal Line-Up – Youngsters: José Damiani Cup

POLAND (+10)            VS       FRANCE

USA1                         VS       ISRAEL (+10)

Semifinal Line-Up – Girls: Gianarrigo Rona Trophy

NETHERLANDS (+10)   VS         ITALY
POLAND (+10)                  VS        FRANCE 

Matches on BBO:  Thursday 2 August (all times GMT+8)

VG NETHERLANDS AUSTRALIA J                           13:00 & 15:30 & 17:55 TO BE DECIDED
B2 POLAND FRANCE Y
B3 USA1 ISRAEL Y
B4 POLAND FRANCE G
OG ISRAEL CHINA J

Juniors Quaterfinals KOs

Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	NETHERLANDS	6	26	32	49	81	36	117	48	165
	SINGAPORE	0	10	10	17	27	39	66	15	81
Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	AUSTRALIA	10	30	40	45	85	19	104	56	160
	USA1	0	12	12	16	28	34	62	37	99
Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	ISRAEL	10	14	24	28	52	54	106	59	165
	ITALY	0	44	44	37	81	50	131	11	142
Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	FRANCE	10	8	18	2	20	27	47	56	103
	CHINA	0	53	53	45	98	58	156	57	213

Youngsters Quaterfinals KOs

Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	POLAND	10	15	25	41	66	56	122	72	194
	ENGLAND	0	72	72	31	103	28	131	3	134
Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	FRANCE	6.5	16	22.5	45	67.5	70	137.5	29	166.5
	ITALY	0	27	27	26	53	31	84	10	94
Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	USA1	0	44	44	56	100	30	130	17	147
	AUSTRALIA	2.67	15	17.7	24	41.7	31	72.7	50	122.7
Team		c/o	Segment
			1	Tot	2	Tot	3	Tot	4	Total
	SWEDEN	10	16	26	23	49	45	94	42	136
	ISRAEL	0	36	36	43	79	40	119	24	143

6th Playing Day: What an exciting last day in all three divisions. The Girls event looked settled, with China 32 VPs behind fourth-placed Italy. But China gave Italian supporters some nervous moments by winning 25-5, 25-0 and 22-8 to finish only 4 VPs adrift. In the Youngsters, China looked well set with three rounds to go, but then lost 23-7 to Poland and 25-1 to Sweden. England had a middling day, with 18 from a bye and two 15-15 ties. Italy beat Singapore 25-4, but then lost to Canada by 17-13.Before the last round, the scores were England 251, Italy 249, China 239, with two to qualify. In the last round, China was not catching up. But then on boards 10-15 China scored 66 unanswered IMPs against Canada to move ahead of Italy into eighth place. Then Italy retaliated, gaining 28 IMPs over the last four boards to regain the last quarterfinal berth. England and Italy ended with 266, with China 2 points behind. The eighth spot in the Juniors was between Denmark and Singapore. Before the day began, Denmark led Singapore by 6 VPs. This margin widened to 11 after Round 17. But then Singapore crushed Argentina 25-0 to move within 3. In the last round, Singapore scored another maximum, this time over Egypt. And when Denmark defeated France by only 19-11, Singapore had made it. Now in the knockout stage we have 56-board quarterfinals and semifinals, and 80-board finals.

In bold are the countries that continue to play the championships

Juniors Final Rankings			Youngsters Final Rankings			Girls Final Rankings
1	NETHERLANDS	371.6	1	POLAND	331	1	NETHERLANDS	380
2	ISRAEL	370	2	FRANCE	312	2	POLAND	352
3	AUSTRALIA	361.5	3	USA1	309	3	FRANCE	321
4	FRANCE	349.4	4	SWEDEN	306	4	ITALY	293
5	CHINA	346	5	ISRAEL	304	5	CHINA	287
6	USA1	333	6	AUSTRALIA	297	6	CHINA TAIPEI	231
7	ITALY	321	7	ENGLAND	266	7	SWEDEN	208
8	SINGAPORE	312		ITALY	266	8	INDONESIA	207
9	DENMARK	308.5	9	CHINA	264	9	OCEANIA	191
10	BULGARIA	288	10	LATVIA	237	10	USA	186
11	ARGENTINA	281	11	USA2	229
12	CHINA H.KONG	278	12	SINGAPORE	219
13	USA2	273	13	NORWAY	216
14	CANADA	249	14	CHINA TAIPEI	208
15	PAKISTAN	244	15	ARGENTINA	181
16	INDIA	220	16	CANADA	180
17	JAPAN	219	17	JAPAN	164
18	BRAZIL	170
19	EGYPT	160
20	COSTA RICA	126

Juniors First 10 Butler Positions: All Positions Click Here

Butler including Round Robin 19 – Juniors
Players	Butler	Country	Boards
HELMICH Aarnout – HOP Gerbrand	1.59	Netherlands	208
MEYUCHAS Moshe – PADON Dror	1.08	Israel	240
HU Junjie – SHAO Yinpei	1.04	China	256
BOS Berend van den – LANKVELD Joris van	0.98	Netherlands	208
EDGTTON Nabil – HUNG Andy Pei-en	0.94	Australia	224
DWYER Kevin – LIEN Owen	0.85	U.S.A.	256
HOLLANDS Peter – HOWARD Justin	0.83	Australia	176
COUDERT Thibault – LORENZINI Cedric	0.83	France	192
FISHER Lotan – GERSTNER Gal	0.76	Israel	224
FRANCESCHETTI Pierre – LHUISSIER Nicolas	0.74	France	208

Juniors Quaterfinals and C/O:

	C/O
NETHERLANDS	6
SINGAPORE	0
AUSTRALIA	10
USA1	0
ISRAEL	10
ITALY	0
FRANCE	10
CHINA	0

Youngsters First 10 Butler Positions: All Positions Click Here

Butler including Round Robin 17 – Youngsters
Players	Butler	Country	Boards
FLAATT Espen – SAETHER Joakim	2.13	Norway	16
KAZMIERCZAK Wojciech – KLUKOWSKI Michal	2.00	Poland	16
BRESCOLL Zachary – KAPLAN Adam	1.29	U.S.A.	224
KAZMIERCZAK Wojciech – WITKOWSKI Lukasz	1.11	Poland	160
GRONKVIST Ida – GRONKVIST Mikael	1.08	Sweden	192
BAKKE Christian – SAETHER Joakim	1.00	Norway	16
GROSSACK Adam – GROSSACK Zachary	0.98	U.S.A.	160
BERNARD Julien – CAILLIAU Ivan	0.97	France	176
ASULIN Adi – LEVY Hila	0.91	Israel	208
ROBERTS Alex – SHAH Shivam	0.83	England	256

Youngsters Quaterfinals and C/O:

	C/O
POLAND	10
ENGLAND	0
FRANCE	6.5
ITALY	0
USA1	0
AUSTRALIA	2.67
SWEDEN	10
ISRAEL	0

Girls First 10 Butler Positions: All Positions Click Here

Butler including Round Robin 18 – Girls
Players	Butler	Country	Boards
SPANGENBERG Sigrid – TICHA Magdalena	1.38	Netherlands	272
KAZMUCHA Danuta – SAKOWSKA Natalia	1.20	Poland	192
NAB Judith – SPANGENBERG Jamilla	1.02	Netherlands	272
DUFRAT Katarzyna – ZMUDA Justyna	1.02	Poland	208
BOTTA Giorgia – CHAVARRIA Margherita	0.91	Italy	32
CHEN Xinyang – ZHAO Bing	0.67	China	208
CANONNE Marion – THIZY Aurelie	0.66	France	192
CHAUGNY Claire – PUILLET Carole	0.62	France	208
CARBONNEAUX Jessie – FAVARD Laure	0.58	France	176
CHAVARRIA Margherita – LANZUISI Flavia	0.53	Italy	240

Girls SemiFinals and C/O:

	C/O
NETHERLANDS	10
ITALY	0
POLAND	10
FRANCE	0

The players that didnt classify can participate in the: TRANSNATIONAL TEAMS

A seven-session Swiss Teams will be held on Thursday 2nd August and Friday 3rd August 2012. There is NO entry fee for the event.
If you have been knocked out in the qualifying event, then you will have Wednesday off for relaxing and sightseeing before this event begins. The event is open to all participants in the Juniors, Youngsters and Girls who have not qualified for the semifinals.

5th playing Day:  Situations in the three divisions are becoming clearer, with only three more rounds to be played on Tuesday. In the juniors, the top seven teams – Netherlands, Australia, Israel, France, USA1, China and Italy – look safe. The battle for the eighth quarterfinal berth will be between Denmark, Singapore, Bulgaria, Argentina and China Hong Kong. The same applies in the youngsters event, where Poland, France, Australia, Israel, Sweden, USA1 and China will probably qualify. England and Italy will fight for the eighth place. The four girls semifinalists are almost certain to be Netherlands, Poland, France and Italy. China, fifth, is 31 victory points behind Italy. But in bridge the unexpected can happen; perhaps a team will win three blitzes and leap up the field.

Juniors Ranking	Youngsters Ranking	Girls Ranking
after Round 16	after Round 14	after Round 15
1 NETHERLANDS 323.0	1 POLAND 265.0	1 NETHERLANDS 317.0
2 AUSTRALIA 313.0	2 FRANCE 258.0	2 POLAND 283.0
3 ISRAEL 312.0	3 AUSTRALIA 250.0	3 FRANCE 255.0
4 FRANCE 295.0	4 ISRAEL 245.0	4 ITALY 249.0
5 CHINA 284.0	5 USA1 241.0	5 CHINA 217.0
6 USA1 282.0	6 SWEDEN 239.0	6 CHINESE TAIPEI 210.0
7 ITALY 273.0	7 CHINA 231.0	7 INDONESIA 180.0
8 DENMARK 256.0	8 ENGLAND 218.0	8 SWEDEN 179.0
9 BULGARIA 246.0	9 ITALY 211.0	9 OCEANIA 170.0
SINGAPORE 246.0	10 NORWAY 200.0	10 USA 163.0
11 ARGENTINA 244.0	11 CHINESE TAIPEI 199.0
12 CHINA HONG KONG 239.0	12 LATVIA 191.0
13 CANADA 227.0	13 USA2 187.0
14 USA2 223.0	14 SINGAPORE 186.0
15 INDIA 205.0	15 CANADA 159.0
PAKISTAN 205.0	16 ARGENTINA 142.0
17 JAPAN 185.0	17 JAPAN 119.0
18 BRAZIL 127.0
19 EGYPT 124.0
20 COSTA RICA 95.0

4th Playing Day: In the Juniors Netherlands leads with 279 VP,  Israel in second place 22 VP below, followed by France, Australia, USA 1, China, Italy and Singapore… the qualifying countries.

En Youngsters: Poland first with 216 VP, 8 VP below France and Australia…

Girls: The Dutch girls continue with a considerable lead, 37 victory points,  second Poland, and Italy third.

  Ultimos Resultados:

Juniors Final Rankings			Youngsters Final Rankings			Girls Final Rankings
1	NETHERLANDS	279	1	POLAND	216	1	NETHERLANDS	252
2	ISRAEL	257	2	FRANCE	208	2	POLAND	215
3	FRANCE	244	3	AUSTRALIA	198	3	ITALY	209
4	AUSTRALIA	241	4	USA1	195	4	FRANCE	189
5	USA1	239	5	ISRAEL	188	5	CHINA	178
6	CHINA	236	6	SWEDEN	183	6	CH. TAIPEI	159
7	ITALY	215	7	ENGLAND	172	7	SWEDEN	157
8	SINGAPORE	210	8	ITALY	171	8	INDONESIA	145
9	DENMARK	205	9	CHINA	166	9	OCEANIA	141
10	BULGARIA	202		NORWAY	166		USA	141
11	CHINA H. KONG	193	11	CH. TAIPEI	155
12	ARGENTINA	188	12	SINGAPORE	147
13	CANADA	186	13	LATVIA	144
14	USA2	181	14	USA2	139
15	PAKISTAN	163	15	ARGENTINA	131
16	JAPAN	157	16	CANADA	109
17	INDIA	156	17	JAPAN	86
18	BRAZIL	107
19	COSTA RICA	86
20	EGYPT	78

3rd Playing Day: In Juniors Netherlands leades with 187 VP, only 4 VP less France is tied with Israel, the rest of the countries in the qualifying area: China, USA1, Australia, Singapur y Bulgaria. Only 1 VP less in the 9th position Argentina and Italy… 2VP less USA2, all of them waiting for their opportunity to access to the qualifying area. 

En Youngsters: France is first with 181 VP, 6 VP less Poland, and Australia third with 171 VP.

Girls:  The Dutch girls have opened up a considerable lead, being 22 victory points ahead of second placed Italy, with Poland another 10 VPs behind in third. 

Results after 9 Rounds

Juniors Final Rankings			Youngsters Final Rankings			Final Rankings
1	NETHERLANDS	187	1	FRANCE	181	1	NETHERLANDS	193
2	FRANCE	183	2	POLAND	175	2	POLAND	171
	ISRAEL	183	3	AUSTRALIA	171	3	ITALY	151
4	CHINA	177	4	USA1	156	4	FRANCE	136
5	USA1	167	5	ISRAEL	155	5	CHINA	134
6	AUSTRALIA	165	6	NORWAY	152	6	SWEDEN	122
7	SINGAPORE	150	7	ENGLAND	150	7	CH./TAIPEI	120
8	BULGARIA	138	8	SWEDEN	134	8	INDONESIA	106
9	ARGENTINA	137	9	CHINA	129	9	USA	104
	ITALY	137		ITALY	129	10	OCEANIA	99
11	USA2	136	11	CH./TAIPEI	122
12	DENMARK	132	12	LATVIA	114
13	PAKISTAN	123	13	ARGENTINA	113
14	CANADA	120		USA2	113
15	CHINA H.K.	113	15	SINGAPORE	112
	JAPAN	113	16	CANADA	86
17	INDIA	102	17	JAPAN	69
18	BRAZIL	71
19	COSTA RICA	58
20	EGYPT	50

2nd Playing Day: The championships are nearly one-third of the way through the qualifying stage in the junior event six rounds out of nineteen, just over one-third through in the youngsters competition six of seventeen, and exactly one-third into the double round-robin in the girls tournament. In the juniors, with eight teams to qualify, the top six have slightly separated themselves from the rest of the field. Israel is only one victory point ahead of the Netherlands in first, but is 33 in front of ninth. The youngsters division is even closer at the top, with France and Poland tied. They enjoy an 11-point lead over Australia. The Dutch girls have opened up a considerable lead, being 26 victory points ahead of secondplaced Italy, with Poland another 8 VPs behind in third.

Ranking After 6 Rounds:

Juniors Ranking	Youngsters Ranking	Girls Ranking
1 ISRAEL 128.0	1 FRANCE 121.0	1 NETHERLANDS 130.0
2 NETHERLANDS 127.0	POLAND 121.0	2 ITALY 104.0
3 CHINA 125.0	3 AUSTRALIA 110.0	3 POLAND 96.0
4 AUSTRALIA 119.0	4 ISRAEL 108.0	4 FRANCE 95.0
5 USA1 112.0	5 ENGLAND 98.0	5 SWEDEN 90.0
6 FRANCE 110.0	6 USA1 92.0	6 CHINESE TAIPEI 89.0
7 SINGAPORE 101.0	7 ARGENTINA 91.0	7 CHINA 80.0
8 BULGARIA 96.0	SWEDEN 91.0	8 USA 79.0
9 USA2 95.0	9 CHINA 90.0	9 INDONESIA 73.0
10 ITALY 86.0	NORWAY 90.0	10 OCEANIA 56.0
11 ARGENTINA 85.0	11 SINGAPORE 86.0
12 PAKISTAN 82.0	12 USA2 80.0
13 CHINA HONG KONG 81.0	13 CHINESE TAIPEI 77.0
14 DENMARK 76.0	14 ITALY 73.0
15 JAPAN 73.0	15 LATVIA 65.0
16 CANADA 71.0	16 JAPAN 64.0
17 INDIA 60.0	17 CANADA 55.0
18 COSTA RICA 55.0
19 EGYPT 42.0
20 BRAZIL 41.0

1st Playing Day: After last night’s enjoyable opening ceremony and dinner with musical ccompaniment, now we have got down to the serious business of trying to decide three world championships with the first of six qualifying days.

In the Junior event, two of the pretournament favourites, the Netherlands and Israel, are in the lead, just ahead of the host country, China. The two American teams are tied in seventh. In the Youngsters division, Australia and France are tied for first, five victory points ahead of England. In these tournaments, the top eight will qualify for the quarterfinals starting next Wednesday. In the Girls competition, the Netherlands leads from Italy. Then there is a 13 victory point gap to third-placed Indonesia. The surprise so far is that Poland, often the team to beat in this event, is fifth. Here, only four teams move into the semifinals.

Ranking after round 3: 

Juniors Final Rankings			Youngsters Final Rankings			Girls Final Rankings
1	NETHERLANDS	70	1	AUSTRALIA	68	1	NETHERLANDS	70
2	ISRAEL	66		FRANCE	68	2	ITALY	62
3	CHINA	61	3	ENGLAND	63	3	INDONESIA	49
4	SINGAPORE	58	4	POLAND	55	4	USA	47
5	FRANCE	57	5	NORWAY	49	5	POLAND	44
6	AUSTRALIA	55	6	CHINA	47	6	CHINESE TAIPEI	38
7	USA1	51		CHINESE TAIPEI	47		SWEDEN	38
	USA2	51	8	USA1	43	8	FRANCE	37
9	BULGARIA	49	9	SWEDEN	42	9	CHINA	33
10	ARGENTINA	43	10	ISRAEL	41	10	OCEANIA	31
11	DENMARK	40		USA2	41
12	CANADA	39	12	CANADA	39
13	CHINA HONG KONG	38	13	ARGENTINA	36
14	JAPAN	34	14	ITALY	34
	PAKISTAN	34	15	SINGAPORE	33
16	ITALY	32	16	JAPAN	25
17	INDIA	28	17	LATVIA	21
18	EGYPT	27
19	BRAZIL	25
20	COSTA RICA	20

The 14th World Youth Team Championships is being held in Taicang, a historic port city near Shanghai, China, from 25 July to 4 August 2012. It is the opinion of  csbnews  that  the World Bridge Federation, has made its biggest and best efforts to make this  14th World Youth Team Championship has a brightness never before achieved and we hope that all this dedication is rewarded.

This is the world’s flagship bridge competition for young people, played among qualified teams representing the eight geographical zones of the WBF. It comprises three series – for Juniors (up to 25), Youngsters (up to 20) andGirls (up to 25). For detailed information click here 

The Championships comprise three series – for Junior, Youngsters and Girls teams. Systems for the teams can be found by clicking the Links here: Junior Teams Systems   Youngsters Teams Systems   Girls Teams Systems

Junior Draw    Youngsters Draw    Girls Draw

The 14th World Youth Bridge Team Championships is being held in Taicang, a historic port city near Shanghai, in China, from 25 July to 4 August 2012. A quarter of a century since its original launch, the flagship competition of the WBF youth programme is expanded to accommodate a total of 20 zone-representative teams in each of the Junior and Youngsters series, and 14 teams in the Girls series. Another piece of good news is that with this edition the World Youth Team Championships returns to being again independently organized – the first time since 2006.

All Zones of the World Bridge Federation are invited to participate in this prestigious tournament with representative teams in each series. The host country is entitled to field one team in each series. Players in the Junior and Girls series may be up to 25 years old, while in the Youngsters series up to 20 years old.

The Championships consist of a qualifying stage, semifinals, a final and a playoff for third place in each series. The winners of the Junior series final will be the new World Junior Champions; they will receive the Ortiz-Patiño Trophy and silver replicas for each player and the non-playing captain. For the winners of the Youngsters series final there is the José Damiani Cup and replicas, in ad­di­tion to the World Youngsters Champions title. Finally, the World Girls Champions will receive the Gianarrigo Rona Cup.

Israel, 2011 Ortiz Patino Winners	Poland, 2011 Damiani Cup Winners	Poland Girls 2011 winners

This is the 14th event of the (Junior) series which was inaugurated in 1987 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As a biennial com­petition, it was held in 1989 in Nottingham, Great Britain; in 1991 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; in 1993 in Århus, Denmark; in 1995 in Bali, Indonesia; in 1997 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; in 1999 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, in 2001 in Mangaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2003 in St.Cloud-Paris, France, in 2005 in Sydney, Australia; in 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand; in 2008 in Beijing, China and in 2010 in Philadelphia, USA.

The host country – The Netherlands, Great Britain & USA – won the Championship on the first three occasions, but this tradition was broken in 1993 by Germany. In 1995, Great Britain became the first country to win the title twice. Denmark won the title in 1997 and Italy in 1999. In 2001, USA be­came champions for the second time; Italy followed suit in 2003, but USA took the lead in 2005 and conquered the world title for the fourth time in 2006! 2008 marked Denmark’s second victory, while in 2010 a new winner emerged: Israel.

The World Youngsters Team Championship is held this year for the fifth time. In 2004, in New York, only Europe and North America took part, and the first winners were Poland. Israel won the 2006 edition and France in 2008, but Poland came back in 2010 winning the title for the second time.

Finally, following an experimental launch in 2010, won by Poland, this year the World Girls Team Championship will be contested by representatives of all WBF zones, having at stake the Gianarrigo Rona Cup, donated by the WBF President.