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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
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; National Women Teams; National Senior Teams; World Transnational Mixed Team; The World Bridge Series Championships are held every fourth year, in the year of World Cup.
JoAnn Sprung (née Wellens, died 2022) was an American bridge player. 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.
The Chinese Contract Bridge Association will host in Sanya, Hainan, from 10 to 25 October. [1] The series name for the meet is new but WBF calls this the 14th World Bridge Series, or 14th Red Bull World Bridge Series. It will be the 6th competition for the McConnell Cup, and the 6th world championship for women teams in the series.
The World Team Olympiad was a contract bridge meet organized by the World Bridge Federation every four years from 1960 to 2004. Its main events were world championships for national teams, always including one open and one restricted to women ("Open" and "Women" categories in WBF terms). A parallel event for seniors was inaugurated in 2000.
The 2025 World Test Championship final will take place at Lord's in England. The five-day match is scheduled to begin on 11 June. There will be ball-by-ball radio commentary available across the BBC.
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 ...