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LYON, FRANCE • 12Th-26Th AUGUST 2017 “Bridge for Peace” 43rd WORLD BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS LYON, FRANCE • 12th-26th AUGUST 2017 “Bridge for Peace” rd 43 BERMUDA BOWL Coordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer • Editor: Mark Horton 21st VENICE CUP 11th WORLD DAILY Co-Editors: Barry Rigal, Brian Senior 9th D’ORSI SENIOR TROPHY TRANSNATIONAL OPEN TEAMS Journalists: David Bird, John Carruthers, Jos Jacobs BULLETIN Lay-Out Editor: Monika Kümmel • Photos: Ron Tacchi Issue No. 15 Saturday evening, 26th August 2017 USA II ARE THE LIONS OF LYON Contents Brackets and Rosters . .2 Cumulative Medal Table . .3 WBF President Farewell . .4 Roll Of Honour . .6 The Unluckiest Man in Lyon? . .14 IOC and GAISF Officials visit Lyon 2017 . .15 USA 2, winners of the Bermuda Bowl, with officials: Gianarrigo Rona, Martin Fleisher, Chip Martel, Jan Martel (NPC), Michael Rosenberg, Brad Moss, Jacek Pszczola, Patrick Grenthe, On ne change pas Joe Grue, José Damiani une équipe qui gagne . .15 Le (bon) coin francophone . .16 RR13: OT Poland v USA1 . .19 F S4: OT USA 2 v Italy . .22 F S5: BB France v USA2 . .25 F S6: BB France v USA2 . .28 Championship Diary . .31 Swings and Arrows . .32 The Magnificent Seven . .34 F S8: BB France v USA2 . .35 Winners of the Funbridge Transnational Teams: Team MAZURKIEWICZ Krzysztof Jassem, Piotr Gawryś, Michał Klukowski, Marcin Mazurkiewicz (pc) After a wonderful match that contained many thrilling deals it was USA II who emerged as the new Bermuda Bowl Champions, beating France by just 2 IMPs. Bulgaria defeated New Zealand in the play-off for the bronze medals. There was also a close finish to the Funbridge World Transnational Open Teams which saw Mazurkiewicz hold off a strong challenge by Jinshuo while Percy convincingly won the third place play-off with Zimmermann . 43rd WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Lyon, France Bermuda Bowl P123456T FRANCE 39 42 21 25 31 41 199 CHINA 52 15 20 11 23 26 147 P123456T FRANCE 44 42 46 55 00187 P123456T NETHERLANDS 6 35 39 21 27 34 14 176 NEW ZEALAND 5 25 10 80048 NEW ZEALAND 21 46 24 22 35 46 194 FRANCE Thomas BESSIS, Francois COMBESCURE, Cedric LORENZINI, Jean-Christophe QUANTIN, Jerome ROMBAUT, Frederic VOLCKER, Lionel SEBBANE captain CHINA Yunlong CHEN, Jianming DAI, Jianwei LI, Lixin YANG, Bangxiang ZHANG, Jie ZHAO, Jihong HU captain, Gang CHEN coach 12345678T NETHERLANDS Simon DE WIJS, Bob DRIJVER, Bauke MULLER, Bart NAB, Berend VAN DEN BOS, Joris VAN LANKVELD, Wubbo DE BOER captain, Ton BAKKEREN coach FRANCE 33 28 35 28 45 36 27 44 276 NEW ZEALAND Ashley BACH, Matthew BROWN, Michael CORNELL, Geir-Olav TISLEVOLL, Michael WARE, Michael WHIBLEY, Derek EVENNETT captain USA 2 33 38 25 49 11 30 55 37 278 SWEDEN Fredrik NYSTROM, Mikael RIMSTEDT, Ola RIMSTEDT, Johan SYLVAN, Johan UPMARK, Frederic WRANG, Per Gunnar ELIASSON captain, Jan LAGERMAN coach 123456 T USA2 Martin FLEISHER, Joe GRUE, Chip MARTEL, Brad MOSS, Jacek PSZCZOLA, Michael BULGARIA 29 51 35 23 48 17 203 ROSENBERG, Jan MARTEL captain USA1 Ralph KATZ, Robert LEVIN, Jeff MECKSTROTH, Nick NICKELL, Eric RODWELL, Steve WEINSTEIN, Jill LEVIN captain, Eric O. KOKISH coach NEW ZEALAND 22 9 26 41 46 43 187 BULGARIA Victor ARONOV, Diana DAMIANOVA, Georgi KARAKOLEV, Vladimir MIHOV, Ivan NANEV, Julian STEFANOV, Victor ARONOV captain, MARTA NIKOLOVA coach P123456T SWEDEN 43 37 11 16 36 27 170 P123456T BULGARIA 42 36 22 29 30 23 182 USA2 41 51 43 32 21 5 193 USA2 18 49 39 38 40 32 216 P123456T USA1 36 34 49 21 60 26 226 BULGARIA 72 12 11 40 46 58 239 Funbridge Transnational P123T MAZURKIEWICZ 28 36 41 105 BRULIBU 35 42 8 85 123T P123T MAZURKIEWICZ 35 8 37 80 PERCY 19 41 34 94 PERCY 25 27 15 67 THE MAGICDOGS 27 1 32 60 MAZURKIEWICZ Piotr GAWRYS, Krzysztof JASSEM, Michal KLUKOWSKI, Marcin MAZURKIEWICZ, Marcin MAZURKIEWICZ captain 123T BRULIBU Jean Marie BACKES, Patrick BOCKEN, Zvi ENGEL, Olivier NEVE, Patrick BOCKEN captain MAZURKIEWICZ 46 18 25 89 PERCY Peter CROUCH, David GOLD, Zia MAHMOOD, Marion MICHIELSEN, Andrew ROBSON, Anita JINSHUO 37 26 16 79 SINCLAIR THE MAGICDOGS Gary COHLER, Fred GITELMAN, Daniel KORBEL, Sylvia SHI, Sheri WINESTOCK ZIMMERMANN Geir HELGEMO, Lorenzo LAURIA, Krzysztof MARTENS, Franck MULTON, Alfredo VERSACE, 12T Pierre ZIMMERMANN ZIMMERMANN 7 35 42 PIEDRA Bartlomiej IGLA, Fernando PIEDRA, Howard WEINSTEIN, Adam WILDAVSKY JINSHUO Tong JIANG, Chuancheng JU, Jacek KALITA, Michal NOWOSADZKI, Zheng Jun SHI, Xiaofeng PERCY 48 54 102 ZHANG, Dade WANG captain CHINA XHJT Jingsheng BIAN, Xueliang CAO, Hua HUANG, Xiangyang WANG, Shikan ZHOU captain P123T ZIMMERMANN 38 12 54 104 123T ZIMMERMANN 19 25 26 70 PIEDRA 34 37 19 90 JINSHUO 11 31 34 76 P123T JINSHUO 24 41 26 91 CHINA XHJT 22 7 36 65 2 Results are subject to official confirmation August 12th - 26th 2017 43rd WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Cumulative Medal Table for all World Championships Country Gold Silver Bronze Total USA 91.84 74.97 508 217.61 France 20.5 30.67 35.2 86.37 Italy 38.27 18 12.33 68.6 China 12.5 20.67 24.33 57.5 Poland 18.98 22.16 16.25 57.39 Netherlands 15 12.67 23 50.67 England 15.83 17.13 12.94 45.9 Sweden 9.67 6.83 16.57 33.07 Norway 5.67 7 10.25 22.92 Germany 5.58 6 10.15 21.73 Canada 1.25 8.87 8.73 18.85 Denmark 4 2.5 12 18.5 Israel 9.19 4.17 5 18.35 Austria 6.73 6.17 2 14.9 Brazil 4.33 36 13.33 Russia 2.33 3.5 6.33 12.17 Indonesia 63 9 Bulgaria 1.2 25 8.2 Australia 44 8 Argentina 0.17 2 4.2 6.37 Monaco 1.3 32 6.3 Japan 1.5 2 3.5 Chinese Taipei 1 1.83 0.33 3.17 Iceland 2.67 0.33 3 India 33 Turkey 0.17 1 1.17 2.33 New Zealand 11 2 Pakistan 22 South Africa 22 Venezuela 11 2 Hong Kong 22 Scotland 1 0.37 0.58 1.95 Egypt 1.5 1.5 Switzerland 0.83 0.67 1.5 Greece 1 0.25 1.25 Croatia 11 Hungary 11 Serbia 11 Latvia 11 Uruguay 0.5 0.5 1 Belgium 11 Singapore 11 Romania 0.75 0.75 Czech Republic 0.5 0.5 Ireland 0.5 0.5 Belarus 0.17 0.17 Thailand 0.17 0.17 total 279 274 283 836 (47 different countries) Explanation: Every medal is counted equally (teams, pairs and individual), and medals gained by multi-national participants are divided. Competitions are counted from eight categories: Open, Women, Mixed, Seniors, Juniors, Girls, Youngsters and Kids. All World Championships since 1950 are counted. Thanks to their fine performances during the Youth Championships earlier this week, China passed England, the Netherlands and Poland, and are now the fourth most successful nation in World Championship history. 3 43rd WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Lyon, France WBF PRESIDENT FAREWELL LYON — FRANCE 12TH — 26TH AUGUST 2017 Mr. José Damiani, WBF President Emeritus, Mr. Patrick Patrick Grenthe has been awarded with the WBF Gold Grenthe President of the French Bridge Federation, Mr. Medal, but I am pleased to award the French Federation Kevin Beckers, IOC Sport Department, Authorities, dear with the WBF Honour Plaque. colleagues of the WBF, dear players, ladies and gentleman, The Opening Ceremony was held in the beautiful City Hall dear friends, and hosted by the Mayor of Lyon, Mr Georges Képénékian And so, the curtain falls and once again we come to the end and attended by Mr Alain Galliano, Vice-President of Great of a World Championship and I am delighted that it has Lyon Métropole and Mr Yann Cucherat, deputy Mayor of proved to be so successful, even more successful than we Lyon. We owe our thanks to the Métropole and the City of dared hope or expect. Lyon and the Region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes for their I think that you will all agree with me that these 43rd cooperation, for their essential support, as well as the World Bridge Team Championships and the 5th World Ministry of Sports of France, the European Olympic Youth Open Bridge Championships have been a resounding Committees, GAISF, ARISF, IMSA for their patronage and to success. The venue was wonderful, the hotels and IOC President Tomas Bach for his welcome message to all surrounding restaurants catered to all the various needs the participants. and the City of Lyon shone like a jewel in the beautiful I am pleased also to express my gratitude to Philippe weather we have enjoyed during our time here. Gueisbuhler and Matteo Vallini, from GAISF and Kevin We have seen more innovations in technology with the Beckers from IOC who visited the Championship and new Tablets, thanks to Traian Chira, which offered to the congratulated us for the impressive organisation of the players different services and have enabled several matches event. in the round robin and all the matches in the KO stage to The 43rd World Bridge Team Championships have run be recorded and broadcast live on internet for the world tremendously well but the 5th World Youth Open Bridge to enjoy. The new live streaming broadcasting and the new Championships have proved a wonderful addition. It has youth minisite offered to the spectators and kibitzers to been heart-warming to see so many smiling young faces, at live this championship at home as well as the ones who least one of whom was only 8 years old, showing so much were here in the venue.
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