Poland
Cathy has been a member of the Polish Women's team since 2010, winning two European Championships.
🥇2022 55th European Team Championships Madeira - Women Teams - Poland
🥉2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Women Teams - Poland
🥈2021 Online EBL Qualification for WTC - Women Teams - Poland
🥈2019 9th European Transnational Championships Istanbul - Women Teams - Poland
🥇2018 54th European Teams Championships Ostend - Women Teams - Poland
🥈2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Women Pairs
Photo: European Bridge League (EBL)
Poland
Sophia has been part of the Poland women's team since 2017, starting when she was still a junior, and has won the European Championship twice.
🥇2022 55th European Team Championships Madeira - Women Teams - Poland
🥉2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Women Teams - Poland
🥈2021 Online EBL Qualification for WTC - Women Teams - Poland
🥇2019 27th European Youth Teams Stokke - Under-26 Women Teams - Poland
🥈2019 9th European Transnational Championships Istanbul - Women Teams - Poland
🥈2018 17th World Youth Teams Championships Wujang - Under-26 Women Teams - Poland
🥇2018 54th European Teams Championships Ostend - Women Teams - Poland
🥈2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Women Pairs
🥈2018 14th European Youth Pairs Championships Opatija - Under-26 Women Pairs
Photo: European Bridge League (EBL)
USA
Marty Bergen has 10 North American Bridge Championships to his name, including two Reisingers, two Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs, a Spingold and a von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs, and 10 second-place finishes. He has one USBF championship and won the Herman Trophy (now the Goren Trophy) in 1983. Much of Bergen’s success came partnering with Larry Cohen. They won eight national events together from 1983 to 1991.
Marty was inducted to the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2022.
In addition to being a longtime monthly contributor to the Bridge Bulletin – his first article appeared in 1976 – Bergen has authored over 60 books, two of which won the ABTA Bridge Book of the Year award: “Points, Schmoints!: Bergen’s Winning Bridge Secrets” in 1996 and “Declarer Play the Bergen Way” in 2005.
Bergen is also credited with developing the conventions and concepts of DONT, two-way Drury, semi-forcing 1NT, the Rule of 20 and the eponymous Bergen raises. The list of his inventions is much longer, including DSI doubles, sandwich notrump, the impossible 2*S*, 3NT response to one of a major as choice of games and jump cue transfer to notrump.
Source: ACBL
(left Larry Cohen, right Marty Bergen)
Photo: Jonathan Steinberg
England
David is the world’s most prolific bridge writer. He published his first book, ‘Miracles of Cardplay’, co-authored with the legendary Terence Reese, in 1980. He has since written more than 160 books on the game and won the prestigious American Bridge Teachers Association ‘Book of the Year’ award a record eleven times. His humorous fiction, featuring the Abbot and the monks of St Titus, appears in bridge magazines around the world. He also commentates on World and European championships, writing bulletin reports and contributing to the championship books.
Photo: David Bird
Italy
Norberto has been at the top level of bridge for nearly 40 years. As a core member of the Italian team, he has won the Bermuda Bowl twice, the World Team Olympiad twice and the European Championship seven times.
🥉2020 3rd European Winter Games Monaco - Open Teams - Lavazza
🥈2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Open Teams - Lavazza
🥇2018 2nd European Winter Games Monaco - Open Teams - Lavazza
Switzerland
Playing for the Netherlands and then for Switzerland, Sjoert has won the Bermuda Bowl three times and the World Bridge Games (Olympiad) once. He also has wins and medals in numerous other World, European and North American events. He is currently 3rd in the WBF world rankings.
🥈2023 21st European Champions' Cup Dubrovnik - Open Teams - Bridge Contact Club
🥇2023 46th World Team Championships Marrakech - Open Teams - Switzerland
🥈2023 4th European Winter Games - Open Teams - Zimmermann Gold
🥈2022 20th European Champions' Cup - Open Teams - Contact 1
🥇2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Mixed Teams - Ferm
🥈2022 55th European Team Championships Madeira - Open Teams - Switzerland
🥇2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Open Teams - Switzerland
🥈2021 19th European Champions' Cup - Open Teams - Bridge Contact Club
🥇2021 Online EBL Qualification for WTC - Open Teams - Switzerland
🥇2020 3rd European Winter Games Monaco - Open Teams - Swiss Team
🥉2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Mixed Teams - Ferm
Photo: European Bridge League (EBL)
England
Sally is currently 4th in the WBF women's world rankings. Represening Great Britain and England, she has won two Venice Cups, two Women's Olympiads, and five European championships. She also performs strongly in Open and Mixed events.
🥈2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Women Teams - Baker
🥉2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Women Teams - Baker
🥉2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Women Teams - England
🥉2019 9th European Transnational Championships Istanbul - Women Teams - Desadima
🥈2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Mixed Teams - Wilson
🥇2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Women Teams - Baker
🥉2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Mixed Pairs
Photo: Peter Hasenson
Sweden
One of the young superstars of the game, Sanna's first international appearance was at the age of 14, in Sweden’s Under-16 team at the 2014 World Youth Championships. Since then, she has won five major titles, starting with the Youngsters’ Teams at the 2017 European Championship and the 2018 World Championship. At the age of 19, she was a member of the Swedish team that won the 2019 European Mixed Teams. Later that same year, she became the youngest ever winner of the Venice Cup. In 2022, Sanna won her second Venice Cup title, earned a silver medal in the World Mixed Teams in Wroclaw, and became the youngest ever Women’s World Grand Master.
🥈2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Mixed Teams - Miniter
🥈2022 55th European Team Championships Madeira - Women Teams - Sweden
🥇2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Women Teams - Sweden
🥇2019 44th World Bridge Teams Championships Wuhan - Women Teams - Sweden
🥇2019 1st European Mixed Teams Lisbon - Mixed Teams - Sweden
🥇2018 17th World Youth Teams Championships Wujang - Youngsters Teams - Sweden
Photo: European Bridge League (EBL)
USA
Larry Cohen was voted by ACBL as one of the top 10 Influential people in bridge. As a player he has won 25 National Championships. As an author, he has written best-selling bridge books and software. His articles appear in magazines worldwide. As a teacher, he is popular for his land and cruise lectures to sellout crowds wherever he goes. His website: WWW.LARRYCOHEN.COM contains hundreds of free instructional articles to help your game.
Photo: Peter Hasenson
South Africa
Tim first represented South Africa at the 1992 Olympiad in Salsomaggiore, and for the next 20 years he was a fixture in his national team. They reached the quarter-finals of the 1995 Bermuda Bowl in Beijing and were semi-finalists in the same event in Shanghai in 2007, the best ever performances by a South African team in a World Championship event. Tim has also served as a member of the WBF’s High Level Players Commission.
Photo: (from Tim Cope)
