The World Mixed Pairs Championship is a bridge championship for mixed-gender pairs held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships .
5-467: 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
10-513: A pair from their German opponents were using coughs and other signals to communicate information to the partner. Germany won the final, USA 2 filed a complaint. The German pair was found guilty of cheating, the German team was disqualified and USA 2 was declared the winners. Compton was the NPC for USA in all of their Buffett Cup appearances (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012). Compton was the NPC for USA 2, winners of
15-809: Is an American bridge player. Compton won the World Mixed Pairs Championship in Philadelphia 2010 playing with Fulvio Fantoni from Italy. Compton owns a Bridge club in Dallas with her husband, Chris Compton, who is also a professional bridge player. Compton often acts at the non playing captain (NPC) for American teams playing in World Championships. Compton was the NPC for USA 2 in the d'Orsi Senior Bowl in Bali in October 2013. Compton's team discovered that
20-899: 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. Amsterdam, Netherlands Stockholm, Sweden Las Palmas, Spain New Orleans, USA Biarritz, France Miami Beach, USA Geneva, Switzerland Albuquerque, USA Lille, France Montreal, Canada Verona, Italy Philadelphia, USA Sanya , China Donna Compton Donna Compton
25-457: 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
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