The World Mixed Pairs Championship is a bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 championship for mixed-gender pairs held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships

World Bridge Championships

The World Bridge Championships consists of several sets of championships organized under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation.-World Bridge Series Championships:...

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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 latest champions Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni are the first transnational winners. United States pairs have won seven of 12 tournaments. Sabine Zenkel of Germany won medals three times in a row, 1994 to 2002, but no player has won twice.

Five champions have also won the Open or Women Pairs: Mary Jane Farell, Kerri Shuman, 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.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands 


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  on two points. WBF currently lists only the winners and runners up, neither third place nor the size of the field.
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Stockholm, Sweden


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Las Palmas, Spain


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|1.> |2.> |3.> | colspan=5|> | rowspan=3 bgcolor="beige" valign="Top"|1978

New Orleans, USA


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  For 1978 to 1998 the WBF currently lists the leaders (top 25 in 1978; 260 in 1998) without the size of the field. Some of those listings may enumerate the finalists.
|1.> |2.> |3.> | colspan=5| After 1980 it was determined that the world championships in even years would continue to be played in Europe and North America. > | rowspan=3 bgcolor="beige" valign="Top"|1982

Biarritz, France


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Miami Beach, USA


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Geneva, Switzerland


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Albuquerque, USA


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Lille, France


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Montreal, Canada


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Verona, Italy


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Philadelphia, USA


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Year, Site	Entries		female	male
Mary Jane Farell	Ivan Erdos
Joan Durran	Maurice Weissberger
Nuccia Zeppegno	Vito Pittalà
Barbara Brier	Waldemar von Zedtwitz
Rixi Markus Rixi Markus Rixi Markus MBE was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation...	Georges Catzeflis
Rima Sinder	Michael Hochzeit
Loula Gordon	Tony Trad
Jacqui Mitchell	Jimmy Cayne James Cayne James E. "Jimmy" Cayne is an American businessman, a former CEO of Bear Stearns, founder of TalkGeek.org and world-class bridge player. After losing about one billion dollars in net worth from the collapse of Bear Stearns' stock, he sold his entire stake in the company for $61 million...
Nadine Cohen	Edmond Vial
Kerri Shuman	Barry Crane Barry Crane Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....
Heitie Noland	Jim Jacoby
Carol Sanders	Lou Bluhm
450	1.	Dianna Gordon	George Mittelman
2.	Peggy Sutherlin	John Sutherlin
3.	Isabelle Viennois	Jean-Louis Viennois
420	1.	Pam Wittes	Jon Wittes
2.	Kerri Shuman	Bob Hamman Bob Hamman Robert David Hamman is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time....
3.	Rozanne Pollack	Bill Pollack
572	1.	Juanita Chambers	Peter Weichsel
2.	Eva-Liss Göthe	Lars Andersson
3.	Kathie Walvick	Walt Walvick
480	1.	Danuta Hocheker	Apolinary Kowalski
2.	Sabine Zenkel	Bob Hamman Bob Hamman Robert David Hamman is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time....
3.	Ewa Harasimowicz	Marcin Leśniewski
598	1.	Enza Rossano	Antonio Vivaldi
2.	Claude Blouquit	Marc Bompis
3.	Sabine Auken	Jens Auken
434   The WBF currently lists 374 pairs, 182 finalists and the remainder consolation. Perhaps there were 60 non-qualifiers who declined to play consolation.	1.	Becky Rogers	Jeff Meckstroth Jeff Meckstroth Jeffrey John Meckstroth is a multiple world champion in contract bridge, winning the Bermuda Bowl representing the U.S. five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called triple crown of bridge: the Bermuda Bowl, the World Open Pairs and the World Team Olympiad...
2.	Elisabeth Hugon	Jean-Jacques Palau
3.	Sabine Auken	Jens Auken
487	1.	Karen McCallum	Matt Granovetter
2.	Jill Levin	Bobby Levin Bobby Levin Robert J. Levin is an American professional bridge player. He is best known as the youngest winner of the world championship for national teams, namely the 1981 Bermuda Bowl, and as five-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational with his regular partner Steve Weinstein...
3.	JoAnna Stansby	Lew Stansby
434	1.	Donna Compton	Fulvio Fantoni Fulvio Fantoni Fulvio Fantoni is an Italian international bridge player. He is a six-time world champion, a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation , and the WBF first-ranked player as of April 2011...
2.	Kismet Fung	Brian Glubok
3.	Joan Lewis	Robert Hopkins

External links

• World Mixed Pairs Championships to Date at the World Bridge Federation
  World Bridge Federation
  The World Bridge Federation is the world governing body of contract bridge. The WBF is responsible for world championship competition, most of which is conducted at a few multi-event meets on a four-year cycle...