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World Bridge Series Championships is the new 2010 name for a quadrennial meet organized by the World Bridge Federation in non-leap even years. (Another meet, the World Bridge Games, is held quadrennially in leap years.) Most of its world championship events are open in the sense that entries do not represent geographic zones or nations.
"World Bridge Games" [14] or Bridge at the World Mind Sports Games (quadrennial, next 2020) World Masters Individual [ 15 ] —from 1992 Open and Women (Juniors 2000 only) World Team Olympiad [ 16 ] —1960–2004 national teams events; Open and Women incorporated in the Games 2008 and "Senior International Cup" continued as a non-medal event
In August 2015, Boye Brogeland's bridge team (Richard Schwartz, [1] Allan Graves, Boye Brogeland, Espen Lindqvist, Huub Bertens, Daniel Korbel) lost in the quarter-finals of the Spingold knock-out team event to Jimmy Cayne's team (James Cayne, Michael Seamon, Lotan Fisher, Ron Schwartz, Alfredo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria) by 1 IMP following an appeal that lost his team 2 IMPs. [2]
JoAnn Sprung (née Wellens, died 2022) was an American bridge player. She won a World Championship in 2010. She won a World Championship in 2010. She lost in the final of the McConnell Cup in 1994 and reached the semi-final stage of the same event at the 1998 World Championship in Lille, France.
McConnell Cup is a team event for women held every four years as part of the World Bridge Series Championships.The event was inaugurated in 1994 and is named in honor of Ruth McConnell, former treasurer for the World Bridge Federation (WBF) and former president of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL).
World Team Championships (Open Series: Bermuda Bowl) World Team Championships (Women series: Venice Cup) World Team Championships (Senior series: Senior Bowl) World Transnational Open Team (WTOT) The World Bridge Games are held every fourth year, in the same year as the Summer Olympics, previously known as World Team Olympiad. National Open Teams
The event was added to the world championships in New Orleans in 1978 to commemorate Julius Rosenblum, who served as president of the World Bridge Federation (WBF) until 1976. A similar event for women, the McConnell Cup, which takes place alongside the Rosenblum Cup was added in 1994. The full name of this championship is World Open Knockout ...
The Bermuda Bowl is a biennial contract bridge world championship for national teams.It is contested every odd-numbered year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Venice Cup (women), the d'Orsi Senior Bowl and the Wuhan Cup (mixed).