1st World Bridge Games

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1^st World Bridge Games, Oct. 3 - 18, 2008

The 1^st World Bridge Games i.e. the bridge series of the 1st World Mind Sports Games will be held in Beijing, China from October 3-18, 2008.

WBF official Beijing website - Participants, Results, Bulletins

Finals - PDF format, courtesy Tim & Margaret Bourke

Swan Games - Running scores

Photos - (courtesy David Stern)

Blogs
- Ron Klinger
- David Stern
- Anna Gudge

Summary of most Australian and New Zealand results in Beijing (courtesy Peter Gill):

Australia Open Team 11th of 18 teams in their group
New Zealand Open Team 6th of 18 teams in their group

Australia Women's Team 12th of 18 teams in their group
New Zealand Women's Team 11th of 18 teams in their group

Australia Seniors Team 2nd of 18 teams in their group, then
Won Round of 16 over Pakistan, but lost narrowly to Egypt in Quarter Final
New Zealand Seniors Team 12th of 18 teams in their group

U28: Australia 18th and NZ 43rd of 74 teams

U26 Australia 3rd and NZ 16th of 18 teams
In Quarter Final Australia lost to Chinese Taipei

U21 Australia 11th of 18

World Transnational Mixed Teams - 116 teams, 16 qualified
12th Tislevoll (Kate Davies - Peter Gill, Faith Mayer - Geo Tislevoll)
15th Hanlon (Fiona Brown, H McGann, M Harding, S Hoyland, T Hanlon, Tonia Brogeland)
Both lost in Round of 16.
=62: Ware (M Ware - M Newton, C Booth, J Fernandes)
=62 Newton (S Newton - Dilip Gidwani, J Wilkinson - A Turner, K Cumpstone)
88 Happybridge (S and A Henry, two Koreans).

Youth Pairs Grand Final
19th Liam Milne and Michael Whibley (NZ)
23rd N Edgtton - A Hung (Aus)
42nd M Doecke - W Jenner O'Shea (Aus)
76th G Ware - D Krochmalik (Aus)
78th J Howard - N Rodwell (Aus)

Youth Pairs Consolation
7th N Bailey - J Coutts (NZ)
13th J Hornibrook - O Wu (Aus)

Australian Representative Teams

Open (Group D)
Ron Klinger - Matthew Mullamphy
Peter Gill - Bobby Richman
Richard Brightling - Ian Thomson
Captain: George Bilski

Women's (Group F)
Sue Lusk - Therese Tully
Sally Murray-White - Helen Snashall
Felicity Beale - Di Smart
Captain: Margaret Bourke

Seniors' (Group L)
Robert Krochmalik - Paul Lavings
David Lilley - Zoli Nagy
Terry Brown - Avi Kanetkar
Captain: Ishmael Del'Monte

Under 28
Arian Lasocki - Nick Rodwell
William Jenner O'Shea - Mike Doecke
John Hornibrook - Orlando Wu
Captain: Cathy Mill
Coach: Adam Sarten

Under 26
Nabil Edgtton - Andy Hung
Daniel Krochmalik - Griff Ware
Paul Gosney - Nye Griffiths
Captain: Cathy Mill
Coach: Adam Sarten

Under 21
Justin Howard - Peter Hollands
Nathan Howard
Rhys Cooper - Angus Munro
Captain: Cathy Mill
Coach: Adam Sarten

Team Manager: David Stern

Further details can be found at:

The WBF Site at www.worldbridge.org for general information
The ECatsBridge Site at www.ecatsbridge.com also for general information and updates. Details and advice about visa requirements and the ID Accreditation cards.
The main WMSG Site at www.2008wmsg.org for hotel reservations and flight reservation information - click on the link to the English version at the top right of the page and you will find all the details for hotel reservations and flight reservations etc there as well as other information about the event.

Participants are requested to check the websites for information in preference to emailing the organisers.

World Mind Games Fact Sheet (WBF website)

You will need the Adobe Acrobat^(R) reader to view the PDF file format. It is available free of charge for most operating systems from the Adobe Web site.

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