World Women Pairs Championship

The World Women Pairs Championship is a bridge championship held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships. It is restricted to women pairs only.

Results

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

In 2006 the Women Pairs played Saturday to Friday, the 8th to 14th days of the meet, with five qualifying sessions, five semifinal sessions, and four final sessions. At the start of qualifying, sixteen teams remained in the knockout stage of the marquee teams competition for women, for the McConnell Cup. During qualifying sessions for the pairs, the McConnell teams were reduced from sixteen to four, and players from the twelve "knocked out" teams were eligible to enter pairs competition at the semifinal stage. There were 109 pairs in the qualifier, 63 in the semifinal, and 36 in the final.^[1]

United States pairs have won ten of 14 tournaments through 2014, Great Britain two, Netherlands one, China one. Fritzi Gordon and Rixi Markus of Great Britain (native Austrians) are the only two-time champion pair; Americans Karen McCallum and Kerri Sanborn/Shuman also have two wins each including one as partners in 1990. Sanborn is also the only winner of two gold medals in the World Mixed Pairs Championship, which is contested at the same quadrennial meet.^[2]

Year, Site	Entries		Medalists
1962 [3] Cannes, France		1.	Fritzi Gordon	Rixi Markus
		2.	Fanny Parienté	Marianne Serf
	[lower-alpha 1]	3.	Dorothy Hayden	Helen Portugal
1966 [4] Amsterdam, Netherlands		1.	Joan Durran	Jane Juan
		2.	Nancy Gruver	Sue Sachs
	[lower-alpha 1]	3.	Mary Jane Farell	Peggy Solomon
1970 [5] Stockholm, Sweden		1.	Mary Jane Farell	Marilyn Johnson
		2.	Fritzi Gordon	Rixi Markus
	[lower-alpha 1]	3.	Britt Blom	Gunborg Silborn
1974 [6] Las Palmas, Spain	[lower-alpha 2]	1.	Fritzi Gordon	Rixi Markus
		2.	Gerda Goslar	Rita Jacobson
		3.	Emma Jean Hawes	Dorothy Hayden Truscott
1978 [7] New Orleans, USA		1.	Judi Radin	Kathie Wei
		2.	Betty Ann Kennedy	Carol Sanders
		3.	Claude Blouquit	Élisabeth Delor
After 1980 it was determined that the world championships in even years would continue to be played in Europe and North America.
1982 [8] Biarritz, France		1.	Betty Ann Kennedy	Carol Sanders
		2.	Lynn Deas	Beth Palmer
		3.	Sally Horton	Sandra Landy
1986 [9] Miami Beach, USA		1.	Amalya Kearse	Jacqui Mitchell
		2.	Bettina Kalkerup	Charlotte Palmund
		3.	Sally Horton	Sandra Landy
1990 [10] Geneva, Switzerland		1.	Karen McCallum	Kerri Shuman
		2.	Judi Radin	Kathie Wei
		3.	Carla Arnolds	Bep Vriend
1994 [11] Albuquerque, USA		1.	Carla Arnolds	Bep Vriend
		2.	Véronique Bessis	Catherine Saul
		3.	Lynn Deas	Beth Palmer
1998 [12][13] Lille, France		1.	Jill Meyers	Shawn Quinn
		2.	Daniela von Arnim	Sabine Auken
		3.	Véronique Bessis	Catherine D'Ovidio
2002 [14][15] Montreal, Canada	97	1.	Karen McCallum	Debbie Rosenberg
		2.	Blandine de Hérédia	Anne-Frédérique Lévy
		3.	Irina Levitina	Kerri Sanborn
2006 [16][17] Verona, Italy	109	1.	Irina Levitina	Kerri Sanborn
		2.	WANG Hongli	WANG Wenfei
		3.	Sabine Auken	Janice Seamon-Molson
2010 [18][19] Philadelphia, USA	81	1.	Lynn Deas	Beth Palmer
		2.	Susan Culham	Kismet Fung
		3.	Carla Arnolds	Bep Vriend
2014 [2] Sanya, China	46[lower-alpha 3]	1.	Liu Shu	Zhou Tao
		2.	Huang Yen	Gan Lin
		3.	Suci Amita Dewi	Kristina Wahyo Murniati

See also

• World Mixed Pairs Championship
• World Open Pairs Championship

Notes

References

External links

• Women program top page at the World Bridge Federation
• World Women Pairs Championship 1962–present (table) at the World Bridge Federation