Thursday October 16, 2014
Mixed Pairs Championship
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After the end of the World Mixed Teams Championship, won by the Salvo team = Anita Sinclair (Inglaterra); Nafiz Zorlu (Turquia); Roy Welland y Sabine Auken (Alemania), Marion Michielsen (Holanda) y Zia Mahmood (USA), all the pairs during this thursday played the first 5 sessions of the World Mixed Pairs Championship final.
This Tuesday ended the World Mixed Pairs Championship qualifying stage, and the field was divided into two, those who went to play the Semifinal A and those who went to play the semifinal B, both semi-finals were played on Wednesday.
These are the results of the first 5 sessions of the Final A and B, played on Thursday October 16, 2014:
| Results Final A x session |
Results Final B x session |
|
| F A1 | F B1 | |
| F A2 | F B2 | |
| F A3 | F B3 | |
| F A4 | F B4 | |
| F A5 | F B5 | |
At the end of the day these are the first 16 Final A standings:
| Rank | Pairs | Nationality | % | |
| 1 | WANG Nan | ZHANG Bangxiang | CHN – CHN | 60.58 |
| 2 | BERTHEAU Peter | LARSSON Jessica | SWE – SWE | 60.37 |
| 3 | SANBORN Kerri | ZHAO Jie | USA – CHN | 57.62 |
| 4 | GROMOV Andrey | GROMOVA Victoria | RUS – RUS | 56.59 |
| 5 | DUBININ Alexander | PONOMAREVA Tatiana | RUS – RUS | 56.15 |
| 6 | KOWALSKI Apolinary | MISZEWSKA Ewa | POL – POL | 55.98 |
| 7 | SHAN Xingxing | WU Zhen | CHN – CHN | 55.05 |
| 8 | ZHAO Jian | WANG Hongli | CHN – CHN | 54.67 |
| 9 | CRONIER Philippe | WILLARD Sylvie | FRA – FRA | 54.19 |
| 10 | ZHANG Yulan | YIN Men Liang | CHN – CHN | 54.05 |
| 11 | GUNEV Rossen | POPOVA Desi | BUL – BUL | 53.81 |
| 12 | CALLAGHAN Brian | DUCKWORTH Christine | ENG – ENG | 53.02 |
| 13 | STANSBY JoAnna | STANSBY Lew | USA – USA | 53.02 |
| 14 | BJERKAN Cheri | WEINSTEIN Howard | USA – USA | 52.99 |
| 15 | PSZCZOLA Jacek | WORTEL Meike | USA – NED | 52.95 |
| 16 | BROCK Sally | MYERS Barry | ENG – ENG | 52.75 |
All the Final A standings: Click Here
At the end of the day these are the first 16 Final B standings:
| Rank | Pairs | Nationality | % | |
| 1 | BARR Ronnie | GINOSSAR Eldad | ISR – ISR | 61.32 |
| 2 | EGGELING Marie | GOTARD Thomas | GER – GER | 58.00 |
| 3 | VAN PROOIJEN Ricco | WILSON Alison | NED – USA | 57.93 |
| 4 | DELMONTE Ishmael | WEINGER Lindsey | AUS – USA | 56.59 |
| 5 | ROSSLEE Diana | STEPHENS Robert | RSA – RSA | 55.63 |
| 6 | WENNING Karin | WENNING Ulrich | GER – GER | 55.50 |
| 7 | BANASZKIEWICZ Ewa | STARKOWSKI Wlodzimierz | POL – POL | 55.25 |
| 8 | LARA Maria Joao | OREY CAPUCHO Manuel d’ | POR – POR | 54.32 |
| 9 | BAO Linchun | ZHOU Qiang | CHN – CHN | 54.27 |
| 10 | GLASSON Bob | GLASSON Joann | USA – USA | 54.19 |
| 11 | MA Junshan | WU Zhonghua | CHN – CHN | 53.73 |
| 12 | KHANDELWAL Himani | KHANDELWAL Rajeev | IND – IND | 53.68 |
| 13 | DEY Bharati | HOODA Major Surendra Kumar | IND – IND | 53.60 |
| 14 | SONG Yan | YANG Hua | USA – USA | 53.47 |
| 15 | TITOW Joanne | TITOW Kenneth | FRA – FRA | 52.89 |
All the Final B standings: Click Here
WBF COMMITTEE OF HONOUR
At the first meeting of the WBF Executive Council held in Sanya, China on Sunday, 12th October 2014, and in accordance with the WBF By Laws, in recognition of their unselfish efforts in making a significant contribution to the enhancement and growth of bridge throughout the world :
- Patrick Choy
- Marc De Pauw
- Al Levy
- Anna-Maria Torlontano
were elected as new members of the WBF Committee of Honour and were awarded the WBF Gold Pin, joining the existing members
- Jean-Claude Beineix
- José Damiani
- Ernesto D’Orsi
- Panos Gerontopoulos
- Mazhar Jafri
- George Retek
- Gianarrigo Rona
- John Wignall
- Robert S. Wolff
Also, by acclamation, the Executive Council awarded the WBF Gold Pin posthumously to :
- Jens Auken
- Jean-Louis Derivery
eminent and unforgettable personalities in their social life and not only in the bridge world, extraordinary persons who worked with enthusiasm, dedication and passion for the development and affirmation of our discipline and whose memory will accompany us, and all their bridge friends everywhere in the world, for the rest of our lives. Click here for more information about the WBF Committee of Honour