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New Zealand has a team in the up-coming World Youth Championships which will be held in the Chinese city of Wujiang, just north of Shanghai from Wednesday 8th until Saturday 16th August.

Follow the progress of this team with daily reports on this website or click here to go directly to the official site. 

The event is diviided into 4 categories:

National Junior Teams                 25 and under

National Youngster Teams          20 and under

National Girls Teams                    25 and under

National Kids Teams                    15 and under

New Zealand (and Australia) will just be taking part in the National Junior Teams. The Junior and Youngster events have 22 teams, the Girls 15 and the Kids 18. The single Round Robin stage will consist of 14 board matches (12 in the Kids) with the top 8 qualifying for the knock-out stage. Non-qualifiers can play in the Transnational Board A Match Teams.

New Zealand's team consists of:

Brad Johnston and Nik Mitchell    from Dunedin

Zachary Yan and Vincent He       from Auckland

The non playing captain is Auckland's Douglas Russell.

Both Brad and Nik played last year in Youth Tests against Australia in Canberra and Hamilton though this will be their first international experience outside Australasia. Nik got Brad interested in Bridge when they were both at High School back in 2012. They started playing together in 2016. Brad is 23 and Nik is 22.

This will be a first international appearance for Zachary and Vincent who are both still students at Macleans College in Howick. They have started to make an impact on the New Zealand tournament scene, playing very regularly with respectible finishes in major tournaments. They are 16 and 18 respectively.

I am sure all readers wish the team well and will enjoy following the team's progress.

Richard Solomon

 

 

 

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