World Mixed Pairs Championship

Template:Short description The World Mixed Pairs Championship is a bridge championship for mixed-gender pairs held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships.

Results

World meets commonly run for 15 days on a schedule whose details vary.

In 2006 the Mixed Pairs played Saturday to Monday, the first three days of the meet, with no other events underway. There were three qualifier and three final sessions with a consolation event ("Plate") during the last two sessions. Contemporary coverage lists 481 pairs in the qualifying stage; 182 in the final stage; 238 and 232 pairs in the two-session Plate on the third day, or almost 80% of the non-qualifiers.

The 2010 champions Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni, from the U.S. and Italy, were the first transnational winners, but they were succeeded by 2014 champions Kerri Sanborn and Jack Zhao from the U.S. and China. United States pairs had won seven of the preceding 11 tournaments. Sanborn also won the gold medal as Kerri Shuman in 1978, playing with Barry Crane, and she is the only double winner. Sanborn/Shuman and Sabine Auken/Zenkel of Germany have won three medals.

Five champions have also won the Open or Women Pairs: Mary Jane Farell, Kerri Sanborn, Karen McCallum, Jeff Meckstroth, and Fulvio Fantoni. At one meet the best performances are Joan Durran winning gold and silver in 1966, Marcin Leśniewski gold and bronze in 1994.

Year, Site	Entries		female	male
1966 Amsterdam, Netherlands	130 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Mary Jane Farell	Template:Flagicon Ivan Erdos
		2.	Template:Flagicon Joan Durran	Template:Flagicon Maurice Weissberger
		3.	Template:Flagicon Nuccia Zeppegno	Template:Flagicon Vito Pittalà
1970 Stockholm, Sweden	224 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Barbara Brier	Template:Flagicon Waldemar von Zedtwitz
		2.	Template:Flagicon Rixi Markus	Template:Flagicon Georges Catzeflis
		3.	Template:Flagicon Rima Sinder	Template:Flagicon Michael Hochzeit
1974 Las Palmas, Spain	236 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Loula Gordon	Template:Flagicon Tony Trad
		2.	Template:Flagicon Jacqui Mitchell	Template:Flagicon Jimmy Cayne
		3.	Template:Flagicon Nadine Cohen	Template:Flagicon Edmond Vial
1978 New Orleans, USA	316 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Kerri Shuman	Template:Flagicon Barry Crane
		2.	Template:Flagicon Heitie Noland	Template:Flagicon Jim Jacoby
		3.	Template:Flagicon Carol Sanders	Template:Flagicon Lou Bluhm
After 1980 it was determined that the world championships in even years would continue to be played in Europe and North America.
1982 Biarritz, France	450 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Dianna Gordon	Template:Flagicon George Mittelman
		2.	Template:Flagicon Peggy Sutherlin	Template:Flagicon John Sutherlin
		3.	Template:Flagicon Isabelle Viennois	Template:Flagicon Jean-Louis Viennois
1986 Miami Beach, USA	420 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Pam Wittes	Template:Flagicon Jon Wittes
		2.	Template:Flagicon Kerri Shuman	Template:Flagicon Bob Hamman
		3.	Template:Flagicon Rozanne Pollack	Template:Flagicon Bill Pollack
1990 Geneva, Switzerland	572 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Juanita Chambers	Template:Flagicon Peter Weichsel
		2.	Template:Flagicon Eva-Liss Göthe	Template:Flagicon Lars Andersson
		3.	Template:Flagicon Kathie Walvick	Template:Flagicon Walt Walvick
1994 Albuquerque, USA	480 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Danuta Hocheker	Template:Flagicon Apolinary Kowalski
		2.	Template:Flagicon Sabine Zenkel	Template:Flagicon Bob Hamman
		3.	Template:Flagicon Ewa Harasimowicz	Template:Flagicon Marcin Leśniewski
1998 Lille, France	598 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Enza Rossano	Template:Flagicon Antonio Vivaldi
		2.	Template:Flagicon Claude Blouquit	Template:Flagicon Marc Bompis
		3.	Template:Flagicon Sabine Auken	Template:Flagicon Jens Auken
2002 Montreal, Canada	434 Template:Efn	1.	Template:Flagicon Becky Rogers	Template:Flagicon Jeff Meckstroth
		2.	Template:Flagicon Elisabeth Hugon	Template:Flagicon Jean-Jacques Palau
		3.	Template:Flagicon Sabine Auken	Template:Flagicon Jens Auken
2006 Verona, Italy	487	1.	Template:Flagicon Karen McCallum	Template:Flagicon Matt Granovetter
		2.	Template:Flagicon Jill Levin	Template:Flagicon Bobby Levin
		3.	Template:Flagicon JoAnna Stansby	Template:Flagicon Lew Stansby
2010 Philadelphia, USA	434	1.	Template:Flagicon Donna Compton	Template:Flagicon Fulvio Fantoni
		2.	Template:Flagicon Kismet Fung	Template:Flagicon Brian Glubok
		3.	Template:Flagicon Joan Lewis	Template:Flagicon Robert Hopkins
2014 Sanya, China	130	1.	Template:Flagicon Kerri Sanborn	Template:Flagicon Jack Zhao (Zhao Jie)
		2.	Template:Flagicon Meike Wortel	Template:Flagicon Jacek Pszczoła
		3.	Template:Flagicon Wang Nan	Template:Flagicon Zhang Bangxiang

See also

• World Open Pairs Championship
• World Women Pairs Championship

External links

• World Mixed Pairs Championships 1966–present (table) at the World Bridge Federation