England
A winner of numerous events both at home in the UK and in the USA, Andrew finished second in the Open event at the 2004 World Masters Individual. Representing Great Britain, he won the Junior Teams at the 1989 World Youth Championships and the Open Teams at the 1991 European Championships. He also finished second in the 2014 European Championships and the 2019 Europeans Champions Cup.
🥈2019 18th European Champions' Cup - Open Teams - English Champions
🥉2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Open Teams - Allfrey
Photo: AR
Chile
Hanoi Rondón learnt bridge from a '50s Goren book after getting curious by watching bridge articles on newspapers. He eventually got to the Venezuelan NBO where they put him up to date; he became tournament director, teacher and fast forward now he's part of the Chilean NBO. You can find some of his content on YouTube.
Photo: From Hanoi Rondon
Norway
Erik won the Mixed Teams at the 2009 European Transnational Championships and the Lyon Trophy for Transnational Teams playing four-handed as part of the GILLIS team at the 2017 World Team Championships in France. Erik first represented Norway at the 1996 Olympiad and a year later collected bronze medals from both the European Championships and the Bermuda Bowl. Silver medals followed from the same two events in 2001 and he climbed to the top of the podium with victory in the 2007 Bermuda Bowl in Shanghai.
Photo: Jonathan Steinberg
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Nevena Senior playing bridge during her final year at University, in Bulgaria, where she is originally from.
She considers her highest achievements to be winning the European Ladies Pairs in 1987 in Brighton for Bulgaria (when she had only been playing bridge for four years) and the gold medal for England in the Women’s Teams at the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing in 2008
For some time now, she has lived in Nottingham, England.
Source: www.ebu.co.uk
🥇2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Women Teams - Tri Polar
🥈2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Women Teams - Tri Polar
🥉2022 45th World Bridge Championships - Women Teams - England
🥉2019 44th World Bridge Teams Championships Wuhan - Women Teams - England
Photo: Peter Hasenson
France
Joanna and Pierre are partners at the bridge table as well as in life. Joanna was born in Poland and came to France at the age of 35 to start her career as a bridge professional. She started to play with the French teams in 2008, once naturalized French.
Although he fell in love with bridge more than 50 years ago, Pierre has been able to play internationally since 2016 only, when his professional career (as managing director of industrials companies) absorbed less of his time.
🥈2023 46th World Team Championships Marrakech - Mixed Teams - France
🥉2022 16th World Bridge Series Wroclaw - Mixed Teams - Coriandre
🥇2022 55th European Team Championships Madeira - Mixed Teams - France
🥇2022 45th World Team Championships - Mixed Teams - France
🥇2021 Online EBL Qualification for WTC - Mixed Teams - France
Scotland
Barnet first played in the European for Great Britain in 1977 with Michael Rosenberg, with whom he won the Sunday Times Invitational and came second in the Cavendish Invitational in New York.
An author, his recent book Playing with the Bridge Legends combines stories about the greatest players with remarkable events in Bridge.
🥉2018 15th World Bridge Series Orlando - Senior Teams - Silverman
Photo: European Bridge League (EBL)
Canada
Joey announced his arrival on the North American bridge scene by winning the 1974 Vanderbilt Knockout Teams. He also finished second in two other NABC events that year. Twenty years after that first victory, Joey was a member of the most successful Canadian team ever, reaching the final of the 1995 Bermuda Bowl in Beijing.
For a quarter of a century, Joey was a force to be reckoned with in Canadian bridge, winning the National Teams Championship five times and the Seniors Teams title five times between 1994 and 2018. More than forty years after that first dramatic victory, Joey served up a reminder that he was still around, collecting a silver medal at the 2016 World Senior Pairs in Poland.
Photo: ACBL
Sweden
Per Olof first represented Sweden at the 1976 Olympiad in Monte Carlo. He has twice won the European Team Championships, in 1977 and 1987. He also collected a silver medal in 1991 and 2004, and bronze in 1989. He has been a member of all of Sweden’s most successful teams at World Championship events, claiming bronze medals at the Bermuda Bowl in 1977, 1987 and 1991, and at the World Team Olympiad in 1988. Since 2011, P-O has been the coach of numerous Swedish junior teams, leading them to bronze medals in the 2011 European Youngsters Teams and collecting gold with the Schools Team at the 2013 European Youth Championships.
Photo: Peter Hasenson
Brazil
Miguel made his international debut in the Brazilian Junior team in the 1991 World Championships. He was a member of the Chagas team that reached the final of the 1998 Rosenblum Cup and he also collected a silver medal in the IMP Pairs at the 2010 World Championships. More recently, he reached the quarter-finals of the Rosenblum in 2018. Representing Brazil, Miguel won the 1998 IOC Grand Prix and lost in the final of the 2000 Bermuda Bowl.
Photo: (sent by MVB)
Norway
Gunn Tove first became a European champion with victory in the Mixed Teams at the 2009 European Transnational Championships. More recently, she won a silver medal in the Mixed Pairs at the same event in 2023. She made her debut in the Norwegian Women’s team in 2008. At the European Team Championships, she won bronze in the Women’s Teams in 2018 and gold in 2024.
🥇2024 56th European Team Championships Herning - Women Teams - Norway
🥉2018 54th European Teams Championships - Women Teams - Norway
🥈2023 10th European Transnational Championships - Mixed Pairs
Photo: European Bridge League (EBL)
