World Mind Games 2014: Day 4

December 14th 2014mind2014

The 2014 SportAccord World Mind Games

are being held in Beijing, China from 11th – 18th December 2014

helness-helgemo y senior Dhondy
Helness-Helgemo & Senior-Dhondy

Visit to the Youth Mind Games

During the afternoon on Saturday, the WBF President, Gianarrigo Rona together with World Champion Wang Wenfei and members of the WBF Executive Council were invited to present the medals and trophies to the bridge winners of the Beijing World Youth Mind Games.

This Sunday were played the first two sessions of the pairs events, tomorrow Monday will be played the last two sessions.

Open; standings after the first two sessions:

Rank Pairs   Nationality %
1 HELGEMO Geir HELNESS Tor MON 57.50
2 KRANYAK John DEMUY Vincent USA 53.18
3 LALL Justin LEE Roger C USA 52.95
4 WU Yuwei DONG Li Dang CHN 52.50
5 HERBST Ilan HERBST Ophir ISR 50.91
6 SHI Haojun ZHUANG Zejun CHN 50.68
7 FANTONI Fulvio NUNES Claudio MON 49.77
8 BIRMAN Alon PADON Dror ISR 48.64
9 JU Chuancheng SHI Zheng Jun CHN 47.50
10 ZIMMERMANN Pierre MULTON Franck MON 47.05
11 FISHER Lotan SCHWARTZ Ron Haim ISR 46.14
12 BERTENS Huub CHEEK Curtis USA 43.18
         

Ladies; standings after the first two sessions:

Rank Pairs   Nationality %
1 SENIOR Nevena DHONDY Heather ENG 55.13
2 MICHIELSEN Marion WORTEL Meike NED 54.67
3 LEVITINA Irina SANBORN Kerri USA 52.37
4 WANG Hong Li LU Yan CHN 52.37
5 RAN JingRong WANG Wenfei CHN 51.42
6 BROWN Fiona DRAPER Catherine ENG 50.51
7 DEAS Lynn EYTHORSDOTTIR Disa USA 50.33
8 PASMAN Jet SIMONS Anneke NED 49.53
9 BJERKAN Cheryl Lou WITTES Pamela Susan USA 48.62
10 ZHANG Yu WU Shaohong CHN 45.81
11 SMITH Nicola BROCK Sally ENG 44.67
12 ARNOLDS Carla VAN ZWOL Wietske NED 44.56
         

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