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KIWI NEWS FROM THE GOLD COAST
Are there any New Zealand Bridge players still in New Zealand? By a rough count, 177 of them
have crossed the Tasman to go to the Gold Coast Congress. By the end of Monday, the Pairs competitions had
been completed. There is a pretty good turn-out of locals too as these are the number of pairs contesting the various
events:
OPEN 184
SENIORS 52
INTERMEDIATE 124
RESTRICTED 138
NOVICE 87
Here then are the best Kiwi results from these events. The unluckiest pair would have been Michael Cornell and
Ashley Bach in the Open Pairs. They won their direction in the first qualifying stage and came within 0.04% of winning the final.
1. 178.44 Barbara Travis - Howard Melbourne
2. 178.40 Ashley Bach - Michael Cornell
Other Kiwis who made the A Final were Nick Jacob (8th), Barry Jones- Jenny Millington, Glenn Coutts- Ella Pattinson and
Graham Wakefield.
OPEN B Final
5. Steve Boughey - Andrew Tarbutt
OPEN C Final
5. Jan Cormack, playing with Australian George Kozakos
OPEN D Final
2. John and Keith Wignall
OPEN F Final
4. John Kruiniger - Fiona Temple
OPEN G Final
4. Allan and Bev Morris
5. Annette Hagan - Ken Carmichael
SENIORS
A Final
Barry Palmer and Neil Stuckey were the highest finishing Kiwis in 11th place.
B Final
1. Christine Wilson - Glenis Palmer
INTERMEDIATE
A Final
8. Jeanette Chatterton - Dawn Simpson
C Final
2 Trish Anagnostou, playing with Margaret Pisko
D Final
1. Sharon Stretton - Pauline Mulligan
RESTRICTED
A FINAL
1. Tony Jiang - Julia Zhu
2. Erica Tie - Lyn Mould
3. Jane Stearns - Di Emms
E Final
1. Carol Joseph - Denise Mayhew
3. Craig Shannahan - Kevin McMenamin
The Teams events start today, Tuesday.
Richard Solomon