World Junior Teams Championship

The World Junior Teams Championship is a bridge competition for zonal teams of players up to about 25 years old.

Zonal signifies both organization by the World Bridge Federation (WBF) and qualification in eight WBF zones; for example (2006, 2008), six teams qualify from 'Europe' defined by European Bridge League membership. Zones may require national representation; for example, the six European teams must represent six member nations of the EBL.

The oldest event, sometimes called the Junior Teams without qualification, dates from 1987 with some changes in definition. Today that is the "open" u-26 tournament (Juniors) in contrast to the u-26 for women (Girls), the open u-21 (Youngsters) and the open u-16 (Kids). It has been held every two years, odd-number years to 2005 and even years from 2006. Competitors vie for the Ortiz-Patiño Trophy, formerly presented by WBF President Emeritus Jaime Ortiz-Patiño (1930–2013) who conceived the idea while serving as WBF President in 1985. The even-year tournaments officially constitute the World Youth Teams Championships for so-called juniors, girls, and youngsters. The entries are national teams, representing countries affiliated with the WBF via membership in the eight geographical "zonal organizations". Moreover, they must qualify within their zones, usually by high standing in a zonal championship tournament that is limited to one team per member nation.

The 2008 junior teams championships were part of the inaugural World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, China. Denmark won its second gold medal, beating Poland in the final, while Norway won the bronze. The 1st Games also included under-28 and under-21 team championships won by Norway and France. Under-21 and u-26 are part of the WBF youth program (namely, two of the three World Youth Teams Championships) but u-28 is not.

In 2010 Israel defeated France in the Juniors final while China won the bronze medal. The event was part of the newly christened World Bridge Series that also included World Young Ladies Teams and under-21 World Youngsters Teams, both won by Poland.

In 2011, at the 2nd World Youth Congress, "Ned Juniors" comprising four players from the Netherlands won the main teams event, a six-day tournament with 27 entries. Ned Juniors won the full-day 56-deal final by 131 to 60 IMPs against "Arg Uru" from Argentina and Uruguay. Meanwhile, "Ned Rum", with one Dutch pair and one transnational pair from Romania and the United States, won third place against "France".

Arg Uru led the preliminary round-robin from which eight teams advanced to full-day knockout matches, and its second-place finish matched that by Argentina in 1989, the best finish for any youth players from outside Europe and North America.

The Youth Congress in odd-number years is transnational: pairs and teams comprising players from different bridge nations are eligible to enter. Transnational teams finished second and third in the main event, but 23 of 27 entries have team names which imply nationality. Medal ceremonies raise the national flag and play the national anthem is the gold medal winner is national in composition.

Scope

The Junior Teams event (or tournament in a narrow sense) officially became part of the plural "World Youth Teams Championships" when a tournament for under-21 players was initiated. Beginning 2009, teams events were added to the WBF youth program for odd-number years, contested immediately prior to the older events for pairs in the newly christened "World Youth Congress".

Odd-year teams events are distinct from the older series of teams championships (now biennial in even years) and even-year pairs events are distinct from the older series of pairs championships (now biennial in odd years). Some conditions differ.

This article covers all "world championships" for youth teams while World Junior Pairs Championship covers all "world championships" for youth pairs or individuals.

Location

The Youth Teams series has moved around the world, with only one of the last 10 renditions in Europe. Meanwhile, all eight renditions (to 30 August 2011) now counted in the Youth Pairs series have been in Europe.

The distinct Youth Congress has been held 2009 in Turkey and 2011 in Croatia.

Results

The World Youth Teams Championships now comprise three concurrent events or flights: the original Juniors, the Youngsters from 2004, and the Girls from 2010. The latter are sometimes called "Schools" and "Young Ladies", as they were christened in Europe before adoption at the world level.

The Juniors format has evolved. Currently all three flights determine three medalists. They end with a knockout stage and a playoff between losing semifinalists; that is, two concluding matches determine first and third places.

Juniors

The Netherlands won the inaugural world championship for junior teams in 1987 and won the Bermuda Bowl in 1993 with three of the recent junior players: De Boer, Leufkens, and Westra. No other junior teams champions have so quickly won the Bermuda Bowl.

Year, Site, Entries		Juniors Medalists
1987 Amsterdam, Netherlands 5 teams	1.	Netherlands Wubbo de Boer, Jan Jansma, Enri Leufkens, Marcel Nooijen, Rob van Wel, Berry Westra
	2.	France Bénédicte Cronier, Alexis Damamme, Christian Desrousseaux, Franck Multon, Jean-Christophe Quantin, (François Crozet)*
	3.	USA Guy Doherty, Jon Heller, Billy Hsieh, Asya Kamsky, Aaron Silverstein
1989 Nottingham, England 8 teams	1.	Great Britain John Hobson, Derek Patterson, John Pottage, Andrew Robson, Gerald Tredinnick, Stuart Tredinnick
	2.	Argentina Alejandro Bianchedi, Marcelo Cloppet, Juan Quitegui, Claudio Varela, (Alexis Pejacsevich, Leonardo Rizzo)*
	3.	France Alexis Damamme, Christian Desrousseaux, Pierre-Jean Louchart, Franck Multon, Jean-Christophe Quantin
1991 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 12 teams	1.	USA 2 Martha Benson, John Diamond, Jeff Ferro, Brian Platnick, Wayne Stuart, Debbie Zuckerberg
	2.	Canada Mark Caplan, Fred Gitelman, Bronia Gmach, Geoff Hampson, Michael Roberts, Eric Sutherland
	3.	Australia Robert Fruewirth, Matthew Mullamphy, Peter Newman, John Spooner, Ben Thompson, Jim Wallis
1993 Aarhus, Denmark 15 teams	1.	Germany Guido Hopfenheit, Marcus Joest, Klaus Reps, Roland Rohowsky, (Rolf Kühn, Frank Pioch)**
	2.	Norway Lasse Aaseng, Geir Helgemo, Svein Gunnar Karlberg, Espen Kvam, Jørgen Molberg, Kurt-Ove Thomassen
	3.	USA 1 Jeff Ferro, Eric Greco, Leni Holtz, Rich Pavlicek Jr., Kevin Wilson, Debbie Zuckerberg
1995 Bali, Indonesia 12 teams	1.	Great Britain Jeffrey Allerton, Danny Davies, Jason Hackett, Justin Hackett, Phil Souter, Tom Townsend
	2.	New Zealand David Ackerley, Ashley Bach, Ishmael Del'Monte, Nigel Kearney, Charles Ker, Scott Smith
	3.	Denmark Freddy Brøndum, Mathias Bruun, Nicolai Kampmann, Lars Lund Madsen, Morten Lund Madsen, Jacob Røn
1997 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 18 teams	1.	Denmark Freddy Brøndum, Mik Kristensen, Lars Lund Madsen, Morten Lund Madsen, Mikkel Bensby Nøhr, Jacob Røn
	2.	Norway Boye Brogeland, Thomas Charlsen, Espen Erichsen, Christer Kristoffersen, Bjørn Morten Mathisen, Øyvind Saur
	3.	Russia Arseni Chour, Youri Khiouppenen, Jouri Khokhlov, Dmitri Lobov, Alexander Petrunin, Boris Sazonov
1999 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA   16 teams	1.	Italy Bernardo Biondo, Mario D'Avossa, Riccardo Intonti, Matteo Mallardi, (Furio Di Bello, Stelio Di Bello)**
	2.	USA 2 Tom Carmichael, Eric Greco, Chris Willenken, Joel Wooldridge, (Chris Carmichael, David Wiegand)*
	3.	Denmark Gregers Bjarnarson, Anders Hagen, Kasper Konow, Mik Kristensen, Morten Lund Madsen, Mikkel Bensby Nøhr
2001 Mangaratiba, Brazil 17 teams	1.	USA 1 Brad Campbell, Joe Grue, John Hurd, John Kranyak, Kent Mignocchi, Joel Wooldridge
	2.	Israel Asaf Amit, Inon Liran, Yossi Roll, Ranny Schneider, Yaniv Vax, Aran Warzawsky
	3.	Denmark Michael Askgaard, Gregers Bjarnarson, Kåre Gjaldbæk, Jonas Houmøller, Andreas Marquardsen, Martin Schaltz
2003 Saint-Cloud, Paris, France 16 teams	1.	Italy Furio Di Bello, Stelio Di Bello, Ruggiero Guariglia, Fabio Lo Presti, Francesco Mazzadi, Stefano Uccello
	2.	Denmark Kåre Gjaldbæk, Boje Henriksen, Bjørg Houmøller, Jonas Houmøller, Andreas Marquardsen, Martin Schaltz
	3.	USA 2 Kevin Bathurst, Joe Grue, John Hurd, John Kranyak, Kent Mignocchi, Joel Wooldridge
2005 Sydney, Australia (Juniors only) 18 teams	1.	USA 1 Ari Greenberg, Joe Grue, John Hurd, John Kranyak, Justin Lall, Joel Wooldridge
	2.	Poland Konrad Araszkiewicz, Krzysztof Buras, Jacek Kalita, Krzysztof Kotorowicz, Piotr Mądry, Wojciech Strzemecki
	3.	Canada Tim Capes, Vincent Demuy, David Grainger, Charles Halasi, Daniel Lavee, Gavin Wolpert
2006 Bangkok, Thailand 18 teams	1.	USA 1 Joshua Donn, Jason Feldman, Ari Greenberg, Joe Grue, John Kranyak, Justin Lall
	2.	Italy Andrea Boldrini, Stelio Di Bello, Francesco Ferrari, Fabio Lo Presti, Alberto Sangiorgio, Matteo Sbarigia
	3.	Singapore Alex Loh, Choon Chou Loo, Kelvin Ng, Hua Poon, Fabian Tan, Li Yu Tan
2008 Beijing, China 18 teams	1.	Denmark Dennis Bilde, Anne-Sofie Houlberg, Jonas Houmoller, Emil Jepsen, Lars Kirkegaard Nielsen, Martin Schaltz
	2.	Poland Piotr Nawrocki, Michal Nowosadzki, Przemyslaw Piotrowski, Jan Sikora, Artur Wasiak, Piotr Wiankowski
	3.	Norway Erik Berg, Ivar Berg, Petter Eide, Espen Lindqvist, Allan Livgard, Tor Ove Reistad
2010 Philadelphia, USA 17 teams	1.	Israel Eliran Argelazi, Alon Birman, Lotan Fisher, Ron Schwartz, Bar Tarnovski
	2.	France Thomas Bessis, Christophe Grosset, Nicolas Lhuissier, Cedric Lorenzini, Quentin Robert, Frederic Volcker
	3.	China Yichao Chen, Junjie Hu, Zisu Lin, Yinghao Liu, Yinpei Shao, Di Zhuo
2012 Taicang, China 20 teams	1.	Netherlands Berend van den Bos, Aarnout Helmich, Gerbrand Hop, Joris van Lankveld, Ernst Wackwitz, Chris Westerbeek
	2.	Israel Eyal Erez, Lotan Fisher, Gal Gerstner, Moshe Meyuchas, Dror Padon, Lee Rosenthal
	3.	Australia Adam Edgtton, Nabil Edgtton, Peter Hollands, Justin Howard, Andy Pei-en Hung, Liam Milne
2014 Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey 22 teams	1.	Norway Harald Eide, Mats Eide, Kristian Ellingsen, Tor Eivind Grude, Kristoffer Hegge
	2.	Netherlands Joris van Lankveld, Tobias Polak, Tom van Overbeeke, Ernst Wackwitz, Chris Westerbeek, Ricardo Westerbeek
	3.	Poland Maciej Bielawski, Pawel Jassem, Michal Klukowski, Slawomir Niajko, Piotr Tuczynski, Jakub Wojcieszek
2016 Salsomaggiore, Italy 22 teams	1.	Poland Marcin Bojarski, Maksymilian Chodacki, Wojciech Kazmierczak, Michal Klukowski, Kamil Nowak, Justyna Zmuda, Marek Markowski (npc)
	2.	China Yanfeng Chen, Sili Liu, Shiyu Sun, Zhi Tang, Yong Tao, Hongji Wei, Jun Ji (npc), Jun Ji (coach)
	3.	Sweden Simon Ekenberg, Mikael Gronkvist, Daniel Gullberg, Simon Hult, Mikael Rimstedt, Ola Rimstedt, Martin Loefgren (npc), Tom Gards (coach)
2018 Wujiang District, Suzhou, China 22 teams	1.	Sweden Ida Grönkvist, Mikael Gronkvist, Simon Hult, Mikael Rimstedt, Ola Rimstedt, Adam Stokka, Martin Loefgren (npc), Tom Gards (coach)
	2.	Singapore Ryan Chan, Peter Haw, Yu Chen Liu, Jazlene Ong, Ming Yang Zhou, Xin Chen Zhu, Yisheng Kelvin Ong (npc), Choon Chou Loo (coach)
	3.	Netherlands Veri Kiljan, Guy Mendes De Leon, Michel Schols, Thibo Sprinkhuizen, Luc Tijssen, Ricardo Westerbeek, Agnes Snellers (npc), Wubbo De Boer (coach)

* Crozet in 1987, Pejacsevich–Rizzo in 1989, and C. Carmichael–Wiegand in 1999 did not play enough boards in order to qualify for second place

** Kühn–Pioch in 1993 and F. Di Bello–S. Di Bello in 1999 did not play enough boards in order to qualify for the title of World Champion

Youngsters

Year, Site, Entries		Youngsters Medalists
2004 New York City, USA   (Youngsters only) 6 teams	1.	Poland Marcin Malesa, Piotr Nawrocki, Filip Niziol, Michal Nowosadzki, Przemyslaw Piotrowski, Jan Sikora
	2.	Israel Eliran Argelazi, Eran Assaraf, Alon Birman, Gilad Ofir
	3.	Norway Petter Eide, Espen Lindqvist, Allan Livgard, Steffen Fredrik Simonsen
2006 Bangkok, Thailand 16 teams	1.	Israel Eliran Argelazi, Alon Birman, Dror Padon, Ron Segev, Dana Tal, Bar Tarnovski
	2.	Latvia Jurijs Balasovs, Janis Bethers, Peteris Bethers, Adrians Imsa, Martins Lorencs
	3.	Poland Piotr Butryn, Bartlomiej Igla, Artur Machno, Maciej Sikora, Joanna Krawczyk, Artur Wasiak
2008 Beijing, China 18 teams	1.	France Marion Canonne, Pierre Franceschetti, Alexandre Kilani, Aymeric Lebatteux, Nicolas Lhuissier, Cedric Lorenzini
	2.	England Adam Hickman, Edward Jones, Daniel McIntosh, Robert Myers, Benjamin Paske, Thomas Paske
	3.	China Simin Chen, Yichao Chen, Chunhui Dong, Junjie Hu, Yujie Jiang, Qi Song
2010 Philadelphia, USA 16 teams	1.	Poland Pawel Jassem, Tomasz Jochymski, Wojciech Kazmierczak, Mateusz Mroczkowski, Adam Smieszkol, Piotr Tuczynski
	2.	England Daniel McIntosh, Thomas Paske, James Paul, Thomas Rainforth, Graeme Robertson, Shivam Shah
	3.	Netherlands Lotte Leufkens, Vincent Nab, Rens Philipsen, Rik van Leeuwen, Thijs Verbeek, Ernst Wackwitz
2012 Taicang, China 20 teams	1.	Poland Michal Gulczynski, Wojciech Kazmierczak, Michal Klukowski, Igor Losiewicz, Andrzej Terszak, Lukasz Witkowski
	2.	USA 1 Zachary Brescoll, Adam Grossack, Zachary Grossack, Andrew Jeng, Richard Jeng, Adam Kaplan
	3.	France Julien Bernard, Ivan Caillau, Fabrice Charignon, Baptiste Combescure, Clement Laboureyre, Grégoire Lafont
2014 Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey 16 teams	1.	Sweden Ida Grönkvist, Mikael Rimstedt, Ola Rimstedt, Johan Säfsten
	2.	USA1 Nolan Chang, Christopher Huber, Oren Kriegel, Benjamin Kristensen, Kevin Rosenberg, Cole Spencer
	3.	Norway Christian Bakke, Espen Flaatt, Joakim Saether, Marcus Scheie
2016 Salsomaggiore, Italy 18 teams	1.	Italy Francesco Chiarandini, Alvaro Gaiotti, Gianmarco Giubilo, Andrea Manganella, Federico Porta, Sebastiano Scata
	2.	Netherlands Youp Caris, Pim Dupont, Oscar Nijssen, Sven Overvelde, Leen Stougie, Marc Stougie
	3.	China Hong Kong Chris T H Chan, Alfred Lam, Niko Man, Jackson Tsang, Sam Tseng, Michael Wu
2018 Wujiang District, Suzhou, China 22 teams	1.	Sweden Teo Bodin, Sanna Clementsson, Erik Hansson, Castor Mann, Alexander Sandin
	2.	Israel Ilai Ilan Baniri, Nir Khutorsky, Tomer Loonstein, Gal Matatyahou, Yonatan Sliwowicz, Aviv Zeitak
	3.	France Raphael Basler, Luc Bellicaud, Arthur Boulin, Melic Dufrene, Maxence Fragola, Theo Guillemin

Girls

Year, Site, Entries		Girls Medalists
2010 Philadelphia, USA 4 teams	1.	Poland Ewa Grabowska, Magdalena Holeksa, Danuta Kazmucha, Natalia Sakowska, Joanna Krawczyk, Justyna Zmuda
	2.	France Marion Canonne, Claire Chaugny, Jessie Carbonneaux, Carole Puillet, Aurely Thizy
	3.	China Xiufen Chang, Xing Li, Yanjiao Liu, Wei Meng, Lulu Peng
2012 Taicang, China 20 teams	1.	Poland Katarzyna Dufrat, Magdalena Holeksa, Danuta Kazmucha, Natalia Sakowska, Kamila Wesolowska, Justyna Zmuda
	2.	Netherlands Natalia Banaś, Judith Nab, Jamilla Spangenberg, Sigrid Spangenberg, Magdaléna Tichá, Janneke Wackwitz
	3.	Italy Giorgia Botta, Federica Butto, Margherita Chavarria, Margherita Costa, Flavia Lanzuisi, Michela Salvato
2014 Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey 13 teams	1.	France Jessie de Tessières-Carbonneaux, Anne-Laure Huberschwiller-Tatarin, Anaïs Leleu, Jennifer Murgues, Aurélie Thizy, Mathilde Thuillez
	2.	China Li Chen, Bo Fu, Hanxiao Li, Xinyi Li, Qihao Wu, Bing Zhao
	3.	Italy Giorgia Botta, Caterina Burgio, Federica Butto, Margherita Chavarria, Margherita Costa, Michela Salvato
2016 Salsomaggiore, Italy 13 teams	1.	Netherlands Merel Bruijnsteen, Natalia Gawel, Magdalena Ticha, Maaike Van Ommen, Esther Visser, Janneke Wackwitz
	2.	Australia Jessica Brake, Renee Cooper, Kirstyn Fuller, Francesca McGrath, Ella Pattison
	3.	Norway Katarina Ekren, Thea Hove Hauge, Thea Lucia Indrebo, Agnethe Hansen Kjensli, Sofie Grasholt Sjodal
2018 Wujiang District, Suzhou, China 15 teams	1.	China Yijing Cai, Bo Fu, Chengke Hu, Xinyi Li, Xinyi Ni, Yang Yang
	2.	Poland Zofia Baldysz, Hanna Ciunczyk, Joanna Kokot, Dominika Ocylok, Joanna Zalewska, Anna Zareba
	3.	France Sarah Combescure, Marie-Valentine Coupel, Beryl Dufrene, Emeline Jounin, Anais Leleu, Mathilde Thuillez

Kids

Koç University, host of the 2014 championships, sponsored an invitational tournament for "National Kids Teams" of players born 1999 and later (age 15 and under, roughly). Seven invitations were accepted: five from Europe including host Turkey, India from Asia & the Middle East, and China from Asia Pacific.

The Kids played round-robin in three days with a four-team knockout, semifinals and finals, completed during the 5- and 6-day round-robin stages of the official events. France and Poland virtually tied the round robin (a margin less than 1/2 VP) and won the semifinals before Poland won the trophy over 42 deals. China beat Sweden in the third-place match. Meanwhile, India won a two-day, three-team contest for fifth place.

Poland, France, India, China and the host were represented in all four tournaments.

Year, Site, Entries		Kids Medalists
2014 Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey 7 teams	1.	Poland Michael Kaleta, Kacper, Kopka, Michal Maszenda, Jakub Patreuha, Patryk Patreuha, Tomasz Pawelczyk
	2.	France Luc Bellicaud, Theo Guillemin, Romaric Guth, Victor Le Lez
	3.	China Zhiyu Cheng, Dongke Fang, Baozhuo Jiang, Randy Pan, Jiahe Shen, Zihan Wang
2016 Salsomaggiore, Italy 14 teams	1.	Israel Shahar Dank, Nir Khutorsky, Gilad Lifshitz, Tomer Loonstein, Gal Matatyahou, Aviv Zeitak
	2.	China 2 Yunpeng Chen, Cheng Deng, Yizhou Liu, Xinyao Ruan, Penghao Wang, Ruizhe Wang
	3.	France Maxence Fragola, Romaric Guth, Hugo Rabourdin, Clement Teil, Benoit Deveze
2018 Wujiang District, Suzhou, China 18 teams	1.	China 3 Tie Chen, Zanchao Cui, Xihong Dai, Sicheng Liu, Yiping Lu, Zichen Wang
	2.	France Romain Bloch, Aurele Gallard, Leo Rombaut, Thibaut Zobel
	3.	USA Michael Hu, Harrison Anders Luba, Rory Xiao, Michael Xu, Jonathan Yue, Arthur Zhou

Youth Congress

The World Youth Congress is a distinct meet in odd years with transnational entries permitted in all teams and pairs events. It was inaugurated 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey; reiterated 2011 in Opatija, Croatia. The 2013 rendition in Atlanta, United States, is termed the "3rd World Youth Open Bridge Championships" as of August 2014.

40 teams entered the main event at the 1st World Youth Congress in 2009. At least two-thirds of the team names, and more among the strong performers, suggest a single nationality. "Japan Czech" won the final against "Italy Red" while "USA 1" won third place against "Netherlands Red". Evidently 8 teams advanced from preliminary play to knockout matches and there were no playoffs to distinguish any of the quarterfinal losers, 5th to 8th places.

(Some of the main events for teams at WBF meets are scheduled so that preliminary and quarterfinal losers are eligible to enter a secondary event that begins during the main event semifinals. For others only preliminary losers are available to enter the first stage of another event. For example, the 2nd World Youth Congress in 2011, the secondary BAM teams event was a consolation tournament initially among preliminary losers, the 9th to 27th place teams in the main prelim. Quarterfinal losers in the main event joined the consolation on its second day.)

27 teams entered at the 2nd Congress in 2011, all but four having team names that suggest a single nationality.

Year, Site, Entries		Medalists
2009 1st Youth Congress Istanbul, Turkey 40 teams	1.	Japan Czech Noriaki KOIKE (Jap), Michal KOPECKY (Cze), Milan MACURA (Cze), Hiroaki MIURA (Jap)
	2.	Italy Red Massimiliano DI FRANCO, Arrigo FRANCHI, Andrea MANNO, Aldo PAPARO
	3.	USA 1 Jason CHIU, Kevin DWYER, Kevin FAY, Jeremy FOURNIER, Justin LALL, Matthew MECKSTROTH
	4.	Netherlands Red Bob DRIJVER, Marion MICHIELSEN, Danny MOLENAAR, Tim VERBEEK
2011 2nd Youth Congress Opatija, Croatia 27 teams	1.	NED Juniors Berend van den BOS, Aarnout HELMICH, Gerbrand HOP, Joris van LANKVELD
	2.	ARG URU Maximo CRUSIZIO (Arg), Felipe Jose FERRO (Arg), Rodrigo GARCIA DA ROSA (Uru), Alejandro SCANAVINO (Arg)
	3.	NED RUM Marius AGICA (USA), Bob DRIJVER (Ned), Radu NISTOR (Rom), Ernst WACKWITZ (Ned)
	4.	France Edouard DU CORAIL, Nicolas GAYDIER, Aymeric LEBATTEUX, Simon POULAT
2013 3rd Youth Open Atlanta, USA 12 juniors teams	1.	War of Roses Marius AGICA, Kevin DWYER, Adam GROSSACK, Zachary GROSSACK, Adam KAPLAN, Owen LIEN (all USA)
	2.	Australia Maxim HENBEST, Peter HOLLANDS, Justin HOWARD, Nathan HOWARD, Ellena MOSKOVSKY, Lauren TRAVIS
	3.	Turkey Erkmen AYDOGDU, Altug GOBEKLI, Berk GOKCE, Akin KOCLAR, Muhammet OZGUR, Sarper USLUPEHLIVAN
	4.	Japan Yuki HARADA, Koichiro HASHIMOTO, Kosuke ITO, Tadahiro KIKUCHI, Ryoko OYAMA, Takumi SESHIMO
15 youngsters teams	1.	USA Jeng Andrew JENG, Richard JENG, Oren KRIEGEL, Burke SNOWDEN (all USA)
	2.	Kristensen Brandon HARPER, Gregory HERMAN, Ben KRISTENSEN, Ryan MILLER (all USA)
	3.	China XNWY Brandon Kai JIN, Tianyi JIN, Zhizhou SHA, Yiling SHEN, Kaiwen WU, Felica Xinying YU, Weichang QIU (NPC), Bing ZHAO (coach)
	4.	Berk Samuel AMER, Hakan BERK, Nolan CHANG, Jake OLSEN, David SOUKUP (all USA)

World Championships & Events (double overview). World Bridge Federation.

World Youth Congress. World Bridge Federation.

The World Youth Congress (to conclude 29 August 2011) will include "world championships" for teams, pairs, and individuals, each with Juniors and Youngsters flights if the number of u-21 entries is sufficient. There will also be secondary contests with alternative forms of scoring, board-a-match teams and IMP pairs(*).

Some of these events may officially continue "world championships" for junior players contested before 2009: miscellaneous ones, not those now held in even-number years: biennial (zonal) World Youth Teams Championships and quadrennial World Bridge Games.

For the World Bridge Games, among 96 junior pairs in the final and 30 in the consolation, the WBF lists 124 co-national pairs, one England–Wales (because the Olympic movement recognizes Great Britain teams?), and one Argentina–Chile (why?).[1]

The 2011 events for teams and pairs will be transnational in that entries may comprise players from different countries and open in that there is no preliminary qualification at zonal level.

Here is a list of pertinent past championships.

Teams

2009 only(*), World Juniors Teams Championship to Date (Board-a-match), World Youth Congress. WBF.

2009 only, World Juniors Teams Championship to Date (Swiss), World Youth Congress. WBF.

2002 only, junior flight of the IOC Grand Prix

Pairs

2009 only(*), World Juniors IMP Pairs Championships to Date (IMPs), World Youth Congress. WBF.

2006 only, youngsters pairs World Youngsters Pairs Championship to Date, World Youth Congress. WBF.

1995-2009, every two/three years World Juniors MP Pairs Championships to Date (matchpoints), World Youth Congress. WBF.

Individuals

2000 only, junior flight of the World Masters Individual Championships, World Masters Individual. WBF.

2004 only, World Juniors Individual Championship to Date, World Youth Congress. WBF.

University students

"under the auspices of the FISU".World University Team Cup. WBF.

Teams comprise university student players from one nation, not one university.(2010 conditions)

Europe 1993 to 2001 (worldwide in 2000 and 2001)

1992 Antwerp World University Chess Championship, Lode Lambeets attended and initiated the same for bridge (2002)

1993 Antwerp, EBL President Paul Magerman

1994 DEN (2002)

1995

1996 NED (2008)

1997 NED

1998 DEN

1999 NED

Hagen of Denmark 2002 "He began in Palermo in 1997 and missed only the 1999 edition when he preferred to take part in the Junior World Championships being held in Florida at the same time." (2002)

2000

2001 NED

2005 NOR

2000 0826-0902 Maastricht, Netherlands

Bridge Olympiades (11th Olympiad)
1st World University Teams Bridge Cup (conditions): "Players must be students of a recognized University, between 17 and 28 years of age. Each country may enter one representative team."

24 entries; Austria, Italy, Denmark

Europe (16): 123456789 579 0234

21! rounds, first 7 of 14 days

Romania and Turkey listed 23/24 at WBFdatabase did not participate

2002 08 04/13 Bruges, Belgium

EBL from 199x, worldwide 2000, FISU 2002

13 entries: Denmark [1994, 1998], Italy, Netherlands [four recent]

Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Poland

Europe (11): 12345689 11 12 13

2004 1031/1106 Istanbul, Turkey

alongside 12th Olympiad

15 entries; Poland, Belgium, USA

VP 284 276 247

Europe (12): 124689 012345

17 to 27 at beginning of year (may turn 28)

Anti-Doping, Open and Women only

2006 10-21/26 Tianjin, China

27 entries; China A, USA, Poland B;

Europe (16): 2345678 123578 026

champion, Tianjin Normal University

contenders CHN 25:5 USA, USA 17:13 POL, POL 22:8 CHN

VP 508 492 472

2008 09 03/08 Łódź, Poland

21 entries; Netherlands A, Poland A, Norway A

first European (EUC) 1993 Antwerp, initiator Paul Magerman, son Geert M is now technical delegate FISU

Netherlands EUC champion 1996,97,99,01

Netherlands runaway Marion Michielsen–Meike Wortel, Bob Drijver–Merijn Groenenboom, Danny Molenaar–Tim Verbeek.

three Bulletins only, evidently days 1 to 3

Europe:

2010 08-02/09 Kaohsiung, Taiwan

organized by FISU and the Chinese Taipei University Sports Federation (CTUSF); supervised and assisted by other Chinese Taipei bodies; conducted under WBF technical rules

round-robin teams-of-four; as many as two teams per nation, six players per team

citizens born 1982—1992 (up to 28 during calendar 2010)

current student registered in degree program or completed degree program preceding year

"For the purpose of opening and closing ceremonies, the participating delegations are requested to bring with them 2 national/regional flags (96 x 144cm) as duly registered with FISU."

14 entries; Poland, France, Israel

Poland in a runaway (11-1-1, average 21.3 VP!); by IMPs the three Poland pairs ranked 1-2, 3-4 and 15-16 among all 73 participating players

USA B fourth but slaughtered by Poland, France, Israel (18 total; average 21 in other matches; 8-4-1)

Poland winner 31 VP before final round!

POL 276 FRA 238 ISR 232

Europe (6): 12359 14

1 Poland, 2 Tcheck, 3 Poland

2012 07-10/15 Reims, France

Year	n	Champion	Runners up
2000 Maastricht	24 teams	Austria Andreas Gloyer, Arno Lindermann, Bernd Saurer, Martin Schifko	ITA DEN NED
2002 Bruges	13	Denmark Michael Askgaard, Gregers Bjanarson, Anders Hagen, Kasper Konow,	ITA NED POL
2004 Istanbul	15	Poland Krzysztof BURAS, Jacek KALITA, Krzysztof KOTOROWICZ, Piotr MADRY, Grzegorz NARKIEWICZ, Wojciech STRZEMECKI	BEL USA TUR
2006 Tianjin	27	China A Jing Jin, Xin Li, Jing Liu, Shu Liu, Yan Liu, Yan Wwang	USA POLb SWE
2008 Łódź	21	Netherlands A Marion Michielsen–Meike Wortel, Bob Drijver–Merijn Groenenboom, Danny Molenaar–Tim Verbeek	POLa NORa POLb
2010   Kaohsiung	14	Poland Wojciech GAWEL, Jacek KALITA, Michal NOWOSADZKI, Jan SIKORA, Piotr WIANKOWSKI, Piotr ZATORSKI	FRA ISR USA
2012 July 10–15, Reims, France	18	Poland

See also

• Bridge at the 1st World Mind Sports Games
• World Junior Pairs Championship

External links

• 1st World Mind Sport Games contemporary coverage, 2008. World Bridge Federation
• 13th World Bridge Series contemporary coverage, 2010. WBF
• Youth Bridge program overview at WBF
• Youth Bridge — WBF Youth Committee website
• University Bridge program overview at WBF
• University Bridge in the World by Kuba Kasprzak