The World Mixed Pairs Championship is a

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championship for mixed-gender pairs held every four years as part of the

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World meets commonly run for 15 days on a schedule whose details vary. In 2006 the Mixed Pairs played Saturday to Monday, the first three days of the meet, with no other events underway. There were three qualifier and three final sessions with a consolation event ("Plate") during the last two sessions. Contemporary coverage lists 481 pairs in the qualifying stage; 182 in the final stage; 238 and 232 pairs in the two-session Plate on the third day, or almost 80% of the non-qualifiers.Results (linked schedule)
12th World Bridge Championships, 2006. WBF. The 2010 champions

Donna Compton Donna Compton is an American bridge player. Compton won the World Mixed Pairs Championship in Philadelphia 2010 playing with Fulvio Fantoni from Italy. Compton owns a Bridge club in Dallas with her husband, Chris Compton, who is also a professional ...

and

Fulvio Fantoni Fulvio Fantoni (born 9 November 1963) is an Italian international bridge player. He is a six-time world champion, a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), and the WBF first-ranked player as of December 2011. He is one of 10 pl ...

, from the U.S. and Italy, were the first transnational winners, but they were succeeded by 2014 champions

Kerri Sanborn Sharon Lou "Kerri" Sanborn (born July 29, 1946) is an American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Kerri Davis and Kerri Shuman as well. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Sanbor ...

and

Jack Zhao Jie "Jack" Zhao (born 14 June 1969) is a Chinese people, Chinese professional contract bridge player. He became a World Bridge Federation Grand Master (WGM) in 2014. Bridge career Zhao and Zhong Fu won the quadrennial World Open Pairs Championshi ...

from the U.S. and China. United States pairs had won seven of the preceding 11 tournaments. Sanborn also won the gold medal as Kerri Shuman in 1978, playing with

Barry Crane Barry Crane (born Barry Cohen; November 10, 1927 – July 5, 1985State of California (CA Death Index)Family Tree Legends Retrieved May 20, 2009.) was a prolific television producer and director, and a bridge player who "won more titles than anyon ...

, and she is the only double winner. Sanborn/Shuman and

Sabine Auken Sabine Auken ( Zenkel, born 4 January 1965) is a German bridge player. She has also played as Sabine Zenkel. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 24th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world maste ...

/Zenkel of Germany have won three medals. Five champions have also won the Open or Women Pairs:

Mary Jane Farell Mary Jane Farell (March 12, 1920 – 5 October 2015), also known as Mary Jane Kauder, was an American Contract bridge, bridge player. Farell grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and "couldn't wait to get home from school to kibitz whenever my mother had ...

, Kerri Sanborn, Karen McCallum,

Jeff Meckstroth Jeffrey John (Jeff) Meckstroth (born May 15, 1956) is an American professional contract bridge player. He is a multiple world champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl on USA teams five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called trip ...

, and Fulvio Fantoni. At one meet the best performances are Joan Durran winning gold and silver in 1966, Marcin Leśniewski gold and bronze in 1994.

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World Mixed Pairs Championships 1966–present (table)
at the

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{{WPCBIndex Mixed Pairs Contract bridge mixed pairs

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