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top of page above World Championships & Events (WBF) is 2011-07-02 dump during edit conflict at List of bridge competitions and awards

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Ice hockey at the Summer Olympics —sortable Medalist tables (see also WP: Olympics)

Player awards
Awards and honors to individual players, etc
 * ACBL Hall of Fame
 * ACBL Player of the Decade
 * ACBL Player of the Year
 * Triple crown of bridge
 * World Grand Master, Open and Women

=World Championships & Events (WBF)= World Championships & Events. World Bridge Federation.

Schedule
Established by WBF Executive Council 2007

4-year cycle
ODD: World Teams (3), national with zonal qualification — World Transnational Open Teams WTNOT, open

EVEN: (World Bridge Series Championships)

OLYMPIAD: (World Bridge Games, first 9 medal 2 nonmedal)

Youth cycle
Some of these are incorporated in multi-events listed above

quote WBF
In the odd-numbered years, beginning in 2009, the World Bridge Team Championships will be held, comprising:
 * World Team Championships (Open series: Bermuda Bowl)
 * World Team Championships (Women series: Venice Cup)
 * World Team Championships (Senior series: Senior Bowl (bridge))
 * World Transnational Open Teams Championship (WTNOT)

These events will be for national teams qualifying in the various WBF Zones, except for the WTNOT, which will be open to all teams, national or transnational.

In the non-leap even-numbered years beginning in 2010, the World Bridge Series Championships will be held, consisting of the following main events:
 * World Open Knockout Teams (Rosenblum Cup)
 * World Women Knockout Teams (McConnell Cup)
 * World Senior Knockout Teams (Rand Cup)
 * World Mixed Swiss Teams
 * World Mixed Pairs Championship
 * World Open Pairs Championship
 * World Women Pairs Championship
 * World Senior Pairs (Hiron Trophy)

All these events will be transnational, without national quotas.

In the leap years (the same years as the Summer Olympics) the World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) will be held. These games will be held under the aegis of IMSA and will consist of Bridge, Chess, Go and Draughts. The bridge events included in the World Mind Sports Games will be: + Masters Individual (Open and Women by invitation)
 * National Open Teams
 * National Women Teams
 * National Youth Teams, Pairs & Individual

Each member of the WBF is entitled to one team in each series. The Youth Teams is a new event. All events will be for national representation except the World Transnational Mixed Teams.
 * Senior Teams (one national team per country)
 * World Transnational Mixed Teams (no quotas)

YOUTH CYCLE

The Youth cycle will be run on a four-year cycle also, starting in 2008 with the World Mind Sports Games (see above). Then: In the odd-numbered years, beginning in 2009, the World Youth Congress will be held, for players under 26 (and under 21 if enough players to divide the field) comprising:
 * World Youth Teams
 * World Youth Pairs
 * World Youth Individual

All these events will be transnational.

In the even-numbered years the World Youth Team Championships will be held, comprising:
 * World Juniors Teams (Ortiz-Patiño Trophy)
 * World Youngsters Teams (Damiani Cup)

World Championships
Accordingly, World Championships organized regularly by the WBF, are as follows:

World Team Championships
--multi-event ODD (Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup, Senior Bowl) Held every odd-numbered year, it is contested in three series, by teams representing the eight WBF geographical zones. In the Open series, contestants have the Bermuda Bowl at stake, while the Women series play for the Venice Cup. The third series, reserved for Senior players, was added in 2001.

World Team Olympiad
--multi-event discontinued Held every leap year, it is open to representative teams from all WBF member countries. There are three series: for Open (competing for the Vanderbilt Trophy), Women and Senior national teams. As from 2008, it has been incorporated in the World Mind Sports Games under the new title World Bridge Games.

World Bridge Games
--multi-event OLYMPIAD This is the successor of the World Team Olympiad, held every leap year within the framework of the World Mind Sports Games, inaugurated in 2008. Each country may enter one national team in each series: open (Vanderbilt Trophy), women, seniors. In addition, youth teams, pairs and individual are also contested.

World Bridge Series Championships
--multi-event EVEN 2010 Held every even-numbered, non-leap year, they comprise a great variety of competitions including the Knockout Teams and Pairs for all categories (open, women, seniors, mixed).

World Transnational Open Team Championship
--ODD This competition was inaugurated in 1997, and takes place in odd-numbered years at the same site as the World Zonal Team Championship, starting after the latter's qualifying stage.

World Mixed Team Championship
--OLYMPIAD non-medal This competition was first held alongside the World Pairs Olympiad. It was re-launched in 1996 and has been held in conjunction with the World Team Olympiad every leap year, starting after the latter's qualifying stage.

World Youth Team Championships
--EVEN A zonal teams competition for junior and youngster players (in odd-numbered years until 2005, in even-numbered years as from 2006).

World University Team Cup
--EVEN missing Launched in 2002 as a biennial event, this competition is open to national University teams and is played under the auspices of FISU.

World Youth Congress
--multi-event ODD missing A series of massive competitions for young players, comprising teams, pairs and individual tournaments, each in two series (juniors & youngsters), held biennially on odd-numbered years, as from 2009. It includes what was formerly known as World Youth Pairs and World Junior Individual.

International Olympic Committee Grand Prix
--OLYMPIAD discontinued missing A series of competitions among top invited teams that took place in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (1998-2000) and at the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics, in support of bridge's effort to gain entry in the Olympic Games. (Discontinued.)

World Masters Individual
--OLYMPIAD WMSG missing A top invitational competition played every two years (1992-2000, and every four years thereafter) in two series, open and women. A third series, for Junior players, was held in 2000 only.

World Simultaneous Pairs Championship
--ANNUAL missing An unique annual competition played simultaneously in clubs all over the world. Players do not have to leave their homes, but they all compete in a world event scored over the field.

= World Masters Individual Championship =

The World Masters Individual Championship is a contract bridge competition for single players ("individuals") in contrast to pairs and teams. There are now two events, one open and one for women, with entry by invitation from the World Bridge Federation.

The last rendition was in October 2008, with 36 men in the open field and 24 women. , now as part of the World Mind Sports Games (WMSG).

Both 2008 events, Open and Women, were the seventh renditions. The first five were biennial, 1992 to 2000, after which they have been contested in the Olympiads 2004 and 2008.

From 2008 the World Masters Individual Championships are part of the "World Bridge Games", those bridge events the WBF has incorporated in the WMSG. As such they are expected to continue on a four-year cycle, in the summer Olympic host city if possible.

Results
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