Past website information

Regional Congress - Brief Results

The Wellington Regional Congress was held at the Wellington Bridge Club over the weekend 10-12 July. Successful pairs and teams were:

Provincial Pairs - 10A: 1) Michael Ware-Michael Whibley; 2) Stephen Blackstock-Stephen Henry; 3) Murray Jurgeleit-John Luoni.
Provincial Teams - 10A: 1) David Ackerley-Liam Milne, Michael Ware-Michael Whibley; 2) Ray Gruschow-Graeme Norman, Pat D'Arcy-Nelson Procter; 3) Alan Grant-Anthony Ker, Kathy Ker-Murray McMillan
Multigrade 8B: 1) Jan Henderson-Ruth Spittle; 2) Peg Chorlton-Jane Windle; 3) Peter Heazlewood-Gabriel Nedelcu; Best Open/Junior: Prufulla & Sada Hegde; Best Int/Int: Vivienne Cannell-John Rosevear; Best Int/Junior: Marie Groves-Ellie Garden; Best Junior/Junior: Paul Maxwell-Gail Tippett

Introductory Bridge Classes

Several of the clubs in the Wellington Region run regular introductory classes. The Centre encourages you to contact your nearest club for details (see the clubs page on this website for contact information).

For example, Wellington Bridge Club (email: wnbridge@paradise.net.nz) and Hutt Bridge Club (email: hbcinc@xtra.co.nz) both run lessons on Tuesday evenings throughout most of the year.

Advanced Players' Coaching Sessions

From time to time, coaching sessions for aspiring tournament players are part-sponsored and run in association with the Centre.

Interprovincial Teams 2009 - Youth Team Announced

Following trials at the end of June and selection of the third pairs, the Wellington interprovincial teams are as follows:

Open Ray Gruschow-Graeme Norman; Pat D'Arcy-Nelson Procter; Liam Milne-Michael Whibley.
Senior Lyn Mansfield-Barbara Daly; Lorraine Inglis-Judy Plimmer; Michael Gibson-Vil Gravis; NPC Gary Duncan
Women Janet Woodfield-Mindy Wu; Lynda Rigler-Joan Waldvogel; Dinny Hall-Andrea Gluyas. NPC Max Wigbout
Intermediate Anthea Black-Gillian Lewes; Steven Coulter-Heath Tolley; Bill Gardner-Graham Stronach. NPC Allan Joseph
Youth Pieter Vanderpoel, Amanda McLean, Andrew James, Philip Kerken. NPC Margie Michael

National Trial Successes

The national trials were held in Christchurch over Easter. The only Wellingtonian to emerge victorious was Michael Whibley, who was on the team that won the Open trials and so will play in the Bermuda Bowl later this year.

Alan Grant and Anthony Ker came second in the Open trials and Michael Gibson second in the Seniors trials, meaning that they will represent New Zealand in the PABF Championships.

Further, Michael Whibley and Liam Milne will represent New Zealand Youth in the PABF Championships

These selections are subject to NZB confirmation.

1st World Youth Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, August 15-23

New Zealand is represented in this event by team Aotearoa. Team members are:

Wellington's Michael Whibley
Hamilton's Blair Fisher
Wanganui's Luke Gardiner and
Argentina's Juan Cruz Etchepareborda

There is daily Vugraph coverage of this event on BridgeBase who are showing two tables from each round. (www.bridgebase.com)

Here is the web site for information, results and daily bulletins.

http://www.worldbridge.org/tourn/Istanbul.09/Istanbul.htm

Mixed Pairs 3A results

This tournament was played at Karori on 26 April. 1st Graeme Norman-Sandra Pritchard; 2nd Johnny Davidson-Andrea Gluyas; 3rd Anthony Ker-Mindy Wu. Full results are in the Tournaments section.

Wellington Bridge Congress 2008

The congress has been completed and was a success. Winners of Open events were:
Teams:
1 D Ackerley, S Smith, D Smith, M Ware 2 M Reid, P Newell, S Blackstock, S Henry 3 F Rew, J Davidson, S Humphries, P Gosney
Pairs:
1 M Whibley, L Milne 2 S Humphries, P Gosney 3 D Ackerley, S Smith

Full results are at www.wellingtoncongress.org.nz

Main Centre Pairs

This event was held at the Hutt Bridge Club, 4-5 April 2009. 1. Ashley Bach-John Davidson; 2. John Cormack-Tony Thomson; 3. Wayne Burrows-Murat Genc. Full results are in the tournaments section.