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Sandra Rimstedt
Sandra Rimstedt is a Swedish European and World champion bridge player. Rimstedt comes from a Bridge playing family including her sister, Cecilia Rimstedt and twin brothers Mikael Rimstedt and Ola Rimstedt. Bridge accomplishments Wins * World Bridge Series Women Teams (1) 2022 * European Women Pairs (1) 2015 Runners-up * Venice Cup (1) 2017 * Youth European Championship (2) 2004, 2005 * Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 2017 References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rimstedt, Sandra Swedish contract bridge players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contract Bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games, particularly among seniors. The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the governing body for international competitive bridge, with numerous other bodies governing it at the regional level. The game consists of a number of , each progressing through four phases. The cards are dealt to the players; then the players ''call'' (or ''bid'') in an auction seeking to take the , specifying how many tricks the partnership receiving the contract (the declaring side) needs to take to receive points for the deal. During the auction, partners use their bids to also exchange information about their hands, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Rimstedt
Cecilia Rimstedt is a Swedish two-time world champion bridge player. Rimstedt comes from a Bridge playing family including her sister, Sandra Rimstedt and twin brothers Mikael Rimstedt and Ola Rimstedt. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Venice Cup (1) 2019 * World Bridge Series Women Teams (1) 2022 * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs 2006 Runners-up * Venice Cup The Venice Cup is a biennial world championship contract bridge tournament for national of Women. It is contested every odd-number year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Bermuda Bowl (Open) and d'Orsi Bowl (Se ... (1) 2017 References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rimstedt, Cecilia Swedish contract bridge players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Rimstedt
Mikael Rimstedt is a Swedish contract bridge player. Mikael is a World Champion. Playing with his twin brother Ola Rimstedt, they won the World Open Pairs in Orlando in 2018. Bridge accomplishments Wins * World Youngsters Team Championship (1) 2014 *World Open Pairs The World Open Pairs Championship is a contract bridge competition initiated in 1962 and held as part of the World Bridge Series Championships every four years. Open to all pairs without any quota restrictions on nationality, the championship i ...
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Ola Rimstedt
Ola Rimstedt is a Swedish contract bridge player. Ola is a World Champion. Playing with his twin brother Mikael Rimstedt, they won the World Open Pairs in Orlando in 2018. Bridge accomplishments Wins * World Youngsters Team Championship (1) 2014 * World Open Pairs The World Open Pairs Championship is a contract bridge competition initiated in 1962 and held as part of the World Bridge Series Championships every four years. Open to all pairs without any quota restrictions on nationality, the championship is wi ... (1) 2018 References External links * * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Swedish contract bridge players {{Bridge-game-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Bridge Championships
The World Bridge Championships consists of several sets of championships organized under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation. World Bridge Series Championships ''World Bridge Series Championships'' is the new 2010 name for a quadrennial meet organized by the World Bridge Federation in non-leap even years. (Another meet, the World Bridge Games, is held quadrennially in leap years.) Most of its world championship events are open in the sense that entries do not represent geographic zones or nations. The meet was inaugurated in 1962 as the ''World Pair Olympiad'' comprising the World Open Pairs Championship and World Women Pairs Championship, as well as the World Mixed Teams Championship. For the second rendition in 1966 the mixed event was for pairs, the World Mixed Pairs Championship, as it would be thereafter except in 1974. The World Knockout Teams for the Rosenblum Cup was inaugurated in 1978 and soon became the most prestigious event of the meet. A parallel knockout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Cup
The Venice Cup is a biennial world championship contract bridge tournament for national of Women. It is contested every odd-number year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Bermuda Bowl (Open) and d'Orsi Bowl (Seniors). Entries formally represent WBF Zones as well as nations so it is also known as the "World Zonal Women Team Championship", one of three "World Zonal Team Championships". 40th World Teams, Information. It was first contested in 1974, as one long match between two teams, and has been concurrent with the Bermuda Bowl from 1985. Alternatively, the Venice Cup is the trophy awarded to the winning team. It was donated by Italy when Venice hosted the inaugural contest. The most recent contest took place in September–October 2015 in Chennai (formerly Madras), India. The last event took place in 2017 in Lyon, France. Structure See a description of the identical "Senior Bowl" structure or a detailed account of the 2011 event (below ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machlin Women's Swiss Teams
The Machlin Women's Swiss Teams North American bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Machlin Women's Swiss Teams is a four-session Swiss Teams event with two qualifying and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the second Saturday of the NABC. The event is only open to female players. The event was dropped from the ACBL calendar effective 2018 and replaced with a two-day pairs event. History The Machlin Women's Swiss Teams competition is a two-day event with two qualifying sessions, followed by two final sessions. Scoring is by International Match Points International match points (IMP) within the card game of contract bridge is a measurement Measurement is the quantification of attributes of an object or event, which can be used to compare with other objects or events. In other words, meas ... (IMPs) converted to Victory Points (VPs). The event began in 1982 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Contract Bridge Players
Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by the Swedish language * Swedish people or Swedes, persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity ** A national or citizen of Sweden, see demographics of Sweden The demography of Sweden is monitored by the ''Statistiska centralbyrån'' (Statistics Sweden). Sweden's population was 10,481,937 (May 2022), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Czech Republic, the 10th-most populous m ... ** Culture of Sweden * Swedish cuisine See also * * Swedish Church (other) * Swedish Institute (other) * Swedish invasion (other) * Swedish Open (other) {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
