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World Championships in Marrakech
46th World Bridge Teams Championships....and the Kiwis are there!
The World Championship competitions starts on Sunday, 20th August, in Marrakech, Morocco. New Zealand has three teams competing as follows:
a repeat of this, perhaps?
or:
Open (Bermuda Bowl)
Ashley Bach – Michael Cornell
Matt Brown – Michael Whibley
Malcolm Mayer – Michael Ware
Chef de mission and npc: Jonathan Westoby
Women (Venice Cup)
Jan Alabaster – Pam Livingston
Andi Boughey – Carol Richardson
Christine Gibbons – Jenna Gibbons
npc: Kris Wooles
Mixed (Wuhan Cup)
Wayne Burrows – Clair Miao
Barry Jones – Jenny Millington
Mariusz Tumilowicz – Mindy Wu
npc : GeO Tislevoll
Watching matches live on BBO will largely be for “night-owls” only as Morocco is 11 hours behind New Zealand. We will bring you news and some of the interesting hands here from Monday 21st onwards.
Each match is 16 boards and each competition a round- robin of 23 matches.
These are New Zealand’s opponents on Day1, Sunday.
Open Women Mixed Start time NZ time
Panama USA 2 Chinese Taipei 9.00 pm
Poland Chinese Taipei Germany 12.15 am
Switzerland India Tunisia 2.50 am
Go, Kiwis.
Richard Solomon