| ITALY WINS GOLD IN
OPEN
Words from the Official Website
Four of the players who won
the Open series of the World Bridge Olympiad for Italy have
repeated as champions of the event with two new teammates.
The Italians vanquished a young team from the Netherlands
310-251 to earn the title.
With the victory, Lorenzo
Lauria overtook Bob Hamman for the No. 1 spot on the WBF
masterpoints list. Hamman had held the top spot since 1985.
Lauria and three of his teammates
in Istanbul – partner Alfredo Versace, plus Norberto
Bocchi and Giorgio Duboin – were on the winning team
in the 2000 Olympiad in Maastricht. Their new teammates
are Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes.
In the World Transnational
Mixed Teams, Sabine Auken, Zia Mahmood, Catherine D’Ovidio
and Paul Chelma easily dispatched the Batov team from Bulgaria
in the final, 173-82.
In
the World University Teams Championship, Poland had a big
win in their last match to grab victory. Belgium earned
the silver medal, and USA took the bronze.
OPEN
OLYMPIAD TEAMS 2004
GOLD:
ITALY : Norberto BOCCHI, Giorgio DUBOIN, Fulvio FANTONI,
Lorenzo LAURIA, Claudio NUNES, Alfredo VERSACE, Maria Teresa
LAVAZZA captain , Massimo ORTENSI coach
SILVER
: The NETHERLANDS : Sjoert BRINK, Bas DRIJVER, Jan JANSMA,
Ricco PROOIJEN, Maarten SCHOLLAARDT, Louk VERHEES Jr, Antoine
VAN HOOF captain Anton MAAS
coach
BRONZE
: RUSSIA : Alexander DOUBININE, Andrei GROMOV, Jouri KHOKHLOV,
Max KHVEN, Georgi MATUSHKO, Vladimir REKUNOV, Boris SAZONOV
captain
WOMENS
TEAMS
GOLD
: RUSSIA : Olga GALAKTIONOVA, Victoria GROMOVA, Natalia
KARPENKO, Maria LEBEDEVA, Tatiana PONOMAREVA, Irina VASILKOVA,
Alexey EFREMOV, captain
SILVER
: USA : Marinesa LETIZIA, Jill MEYERS, Randi MONTIN, Janice
SEAMON-MOLSON, Tobi SOKOLOW, Carlyn STEINER, Jill LEVIN
captain, Jan MARTEL coach
BRONZE
: ENGLAND : Sally BROCK, Michelle BRUNNER, Heather DHONDY,
Rhona GOLDENFIELD, Nicola SMITH, Kitty TELTSCHER, Alan MOULD
captain, Christine DUCKWORTH coach
SENIORS CUP
GOLD
: USA : John Onstott, Jim Robison, John Schermer, Neil Chambers,
Marhsall Miles and Leo Bell. Gene Freed was non-playing
captain.
SILVER
: NETHERLANDS : Willem BOEGEM, Nico DOREMANS, Onno JANSSENS,
Wied POLLE, Jaap TROUWBORST, Wied POLLE
captain
BRONZE
: GERMANY : Hans HUMBURG, Reiner MARSAL, Goran MATTSSON,
Werner SCHNEIDER, Dirk SCHROEDER, Horst-Dieter UHLMANN
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