McConnell_Cup

McConnell Cup

McConnell Cup

Part of the Women's World Bridge Series Championships

McConnell Cup is a team event for women held every four years as part of the World Bridge Series Championships. The event was inaugurated in 1994 and is named in honor of Ruth McConnell, former treasurer for the World Bridge Federation (WBF) and former president of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). McConnell was also instrumental in inaugurating the Venice Cup women's team championship in 1974.

The full name of this championship is World Women Knockout Teams. The knockout format pertains only to the late stages, however, evidently a four-round knockout with 16 teams except for a five-round 32-team KO in 1998. It appears that the field has been divided into two groups or four groups for round-robin play, with the top eight or top four advancing from each group to the knockout stage.[citation needed]

The next rendition will be at the "World Bridge Series Championships" meet in 2014. The Chinese Contract Bridge Association will host in Sanya, Hainan, from 10 to 25 October.[1] The series name for the meet is new but WBF calls this the 14th World Bridge Series, or 14th Red Bull World Bridge Series. It will be the 6th competition for the McConnell Cup, and the 6th world championship for women teams in the series.

Results

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  1. The WBF stripped Hjördís Eyþórsdóttir of her silver medal for refusing to take a drug test.[7]


References

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    "2014 World Bridge Series Championships to be held in Sanya in October" Archived 2014-09-11 at the Wayback Machine. Sanya News. 19 June 2014. What's On Sanya (whatsonsanya.com). Retrieved 2014-09-11.
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    Results & Participants (McConnell Cup), 9th World Championships, 1994. World Bridge Federation.
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    Results & Participants (McConnell Cup), 10th World Championships, 1998. WBF.
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    1998 World Bridge Championships Archived 2009-08-31 at the Wayback Machine contemporary coverage, 1998. WBF.
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    Results & Participants (McConnell Cup), 11th World Championships, 2002. WBF.
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    World Bridge Championships Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine contemporary coverage, 2002. WBF.
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    Bridge player is stripped of medal for refusing drug test.
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    Results & Participants (McConnell Cup), 12th World Championships, 2006. WBF.
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    12th World Bridge Championships Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine contemporary coverage, 2006. WBF.
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    Results & Participants (McConnell Cup), 13th World Series Championships, 2010. WBF.
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    13th World Bridge Series Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine contemporary coverage, 2010. WBF.
  12. [12]
    "The results from the Red Bull World Bridge Series". WBF. October 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
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