Slava Cup 2016: The Auken Team is the new Champion

XIV International Bridge Tournament “SLAVA CUP”

TOP-8 Teams: RR 7 x 10, SF 2 x 14, Final 3 x 12

Moscow, “Metropol Hotel”, February 19 – 21, 2016

Slava Cup 2016 Official Site

For the fifteenth time bridge stars from across Russia and the rest of the world gathered together in Moscow to pay homage to the memory of the talented Slava Grinyuk, who died an untimely death in his thirties. As usual, Organizing Committee Chairman Pavel Portnoy secured the participation of many World and European Champions, who competed in both the Top 8 and Top 38 contests. In the team tournament, a complete round robin saw four teams qualify for the semifinals. At the same time, in the Top 38 Pair tournament (featuring both invited pairs and those who have qualified to compete) battled for the title over 15 rounds.

The Auken team beat in the final the Sweden Junior team. To finally keep the team Slava Cup 2016.

Team AUKEN: Sabine AUKEN – Roy WELLAND, Dennis BILDE – Morten BILDE

Team SWEDEN JUNIORS: Simon EKENBERG – Simon HULT, Mikael RIMSTEDT – Ola RIMSTEDT

In the pairs event a pair of Russia lived up to his homeland and was consecrated champion 2016: GOMEROV Pavel y PROKHOROV Dmitri.

FINAL. Results after SEGMENT   3

table team SUM c/o Seg 1 Seg 2 Seg 3
1 SWEDEN JUN.
AUKEN
81
84
9 18
39
30
26
24
19

Match for 3rd place. Results after SEGMENT   3

table team SUM c/o Seg 1 Seg 2 Seg 3
2 BIRMAN
BRENO
119
46.3
3.3 16
9
50
12
53
22

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TOP 8 Team Rosters:SC 2016 Team rostersSlava Cup  Pairs tournament first standings:

rk player1 player2 VP
1
GOMEROV Pavel
PROKHOROV Dmitri
578.5
2
FRIDLANDER Ehud
LIRAN Inon
559.5
3
RYBNIKOV Gennadi
ZAPADINSKI Eugeni
541.5
4
GULEVICH Anna
KHONICHEVA Elena
518.0
5
BASKAN Burak
SOHTORIK Yusuf
511.0
6
DUBININ Alexander
GROMOV Andrey
509.0

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