Netherlands
Simon is currently 10th in the WBF world rankings. Playing for the Netherlands, he has won the Bermuda Bowl, the World Bridge Games, and the European Team Championship, as well as many other top-level events.
🥉2022 20th European Champions' Cup - Open Teams - BC T Onstein
🥇2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Mixed Teams - Ferm
🥇2022 55th European Team Championships Madeira - Open Teams - Netherlands
🥈2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Open Teams - Netherlands
🥈2021 Online EBL Qualification for WTC - Open Teams - Netherlands
🥇2019 18th European Champions' Cup - Open Teams - BC‘T Onstein 1
🥈2019 44th World Bridge Teams Championships Wuhan - Open Teams - Netherlands
🥇2018 17th European Champions' Cup Eilat - Open Teams - BC’T Onstein 1
🥉2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Mixed Teams - Ferm
🥉2018 2nd European Winter Games Monaco - Open Teams - Khyuppenen
Italy
Representing Italy, Giorgio has won the European Open Team Championship five times and the European Mixed Teams (in 2002), plus six world titles, the Bermuda Bowl twice (in 2005 and 2013), the Rosenblum Cup in 2002 and the World Team Olympiad three times (in 2000, 2004 and, 2008).
🥈2024 1st European Winter Transnational Championships Alpe d Huez - Open Board-A-Match Teams - BICI
🥉2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Open Teams - VINCI
🥉2020 3rd European Winter Games Monaco - Open Teams - LAVAZZA
USA
Ish made his international debut as a junior for New Zealand in 1993, and he was a member of the Kiwi team that won silver medals at the 1995 World Youth Team Championships. Two years later, he played in the same event, but this time representing Australia. He later won a silver medal as npc of the Australian Junior Team at 2013 World Youth Championships. Ish first played in the Australian Open Team in 2000, and he was a member of the Aussie team that reached the quarter-finals of the 2003 Bermuda Bowl. After representing Australia at the 2011 Bermuda Bowl, Ish moved to the U.S.A. and he was a member of the FLEISHER team that reached the quarter-final stage of the Rosenblum Cup at the 2014 World Series in Sanya, China.
Photo: Jonathan Steinberg
Sweden
Peter was the winner of the Open Pairs at the 2009 European Transnational Championships, and finished second in the 2005 European Champions Cup, the 2006 Rosenblum Teams and the 2010 World Pairs. Representing Sweden, he collected a silver medal at the 1999 European Teams Championship.
🥉2021 19th European Champions' Cup - Open Teams - BK Lavec
🥉2019 9th European Transnational Championships Istanbul - Open Teams - Autobahn
🥈2018 2nd European Winter Games Monaco - Open Teams - The Bush
Photo: Jonathan Steinberg
England
Jason's first medal was in the winning team at the 1994 Junior European. More recently he has achieved second places in the 2008 World Bridge Games and the 2014 European. Jason is also well known as the founder and organiser of the annual Mutton Cup, a high-level individual event held in Spain every year.
🥇2019 9th European Transnational Championships Istanbul - Open Teams - Mossop
Photo: From Jason Hackett
Sweden
Simon first represented Sweden in 2011, collecting a bronze medal in the Youngsters Teams at the European Youth Championships. In a glittering career as a junior, he won the World Junior Teams three times, as well as the European Under-26 Pairs and the European Under-26 Teams. Whilst still a junior, he was a member of the Swedish Open team that reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 Bermuda Bowl in Wuhan. He is now a regular member of the national team.
🥈2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Mixed Teams - Otra Vez
🥉2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Open Teams - Team Black
🥇2019 27th European Youth Teams Stokke - Under-26 Teams - Sweden
🥇2018 17th World Youth Teams Championships Wujang - Junior Teams - Sweden
🥈2018 2nd European Winter Games Monaco - Open Teams - Team Ventin
Photo: European Bridge League (EBL)
Australia
Andy has represented Australia in various levels starting from the Youngsters then Juniors followed by the Open Teams. With many Australian national wins under his belt, he has also had respectable results in the international tournaments such as coming (equal) third in US Bridge Championships in 2019, 2022, and 2023.
Besides competing in tournaments, Andy is also a renowned Bridge teacher in Australia, teaching at all levels from complete Beginners to coaching National level players, as well as mentoring junior players. To further his versatility, he often runs Bridge holidays in Australia and in Europe, has been the Bulletin Editor for Australian and international events, and he is also the only person who has been known to Vugraph Operate 2.5 tables simultaneously!
Photo: from Andy Hung
Switzerland
Playing for Poland and Switzerland, Michal has won the Bermuda Bowl three times, as well as many wins in the Rosenblum, WBF and EBL transnational events, and top events at NABCs.
As a junior, he represented his native Poland with distinction, winning the Youngsters Teams at the 2012 World Championships, then the Junior Teams at the 2015 European Championships and the 2016 World Youth Teams. In between those two victories as a junior, Michal was a member of the Poland team that won the 2015 Bermuda Bowl, becoming the youngest player ever to win the Bowl.
🥈2023 21st European Champions' Cup Dubrovnik - Open Teams - Bridge Contact Club
🥇2023 46th World Team Championships Marrakech - Open Teams - Switzerland
🥉2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Mixed Teams - Edmonds
🥇2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Mixed Board-A-Match Teams - Edmonds
🥈2023 4th European Winter Games - Open Teams - Zimmermann Gold
🥈2022 20th European Champions' Cup - Open Teams - Contact 1
🥈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
🥉2019 18th European Champions' Cup - Open Teams - Monaco Fmb
🥉2019 9th European Transnational Championships Istanbul - Mixed Teams - Zimmermann
🥇2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Open Teams - Zimmermann
🥇2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Mixed Pairs
Photo: European Bridge League (EBL)
Sweden
Jessica first represented her country in the Schools event at the 1998 European Youth Team Championship, finishing fourth. She collected a silver medal from the Womens Teams at the 2018 World Bridge Series. Representing Sweden, she earned bronze in the Womens Teams at the 2010 European Championship and silver at the same event in 2018, before winning two successive Venice Cups in 2019 and 2022.
🥈2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Mixed Teams - Miniter
🥈2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Women Teams - Tri Polar
🥈2022 55th European Team Championships Madeira - Women Teams - Sweden
🥇2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Women Teams - Sweden
🥇2021 Online EBL Qualification for WTC - Women Teams - Sweden
🥇2019 44th World Bridge Teams Championships Wuhan - Women Teams - Sweden
🥈2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Women Teams - Smith
🥈2018 54th European Teams Championships Ostend - Women Teams - Sweden
Photo: from JL.
USA
Bobby and Jill Levin have been at the top of the bridge world for more than 40 years.
Bobby won the Bermuda Bowl in 1981 at his first attempt, at the time being the youngest player ever to win the event (a record that lasted until 2015). His other wins in World and North American events include a Rosenblum, a World Pairs, 6 Vanderbilts, a Spingold and a Reisinger. Jill has won five women's world championships and numerous North American titles.
🥈2023 US Bridge Championship - Open teams - Nickell
🥇2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Open Teams - Nickell
🥉2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Open Teams - USA 1
🥈2022 US Bridge Championship - Open teams - Nickell
🥇2021 US Bridge Championship - Open Teams - Nickell
🥇2018 US Bridge Championship - Open Teams - Nickell
Photo: Jonathan Steinberg
