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A complete list of prize-winners for 2024 may be found HERE

The final event of the tournament, the Cool-Down Pairs, was won by Peter Bertheau of Sweden and Jorge Cruzeiro of Portugal.

Runners-up were Pieternella Boone and Kees Bakker of the Netherlands.  In third place were Sigurdur Ingimarsson and Svanhildur Hall of Iceland.

Full results HERE (but no photos, sadly, because our photographer was playing).

The 2024 Open Teams was won in convincing style, with a match to spare, by team de Botton (Janet de Botton, Thomas Charlsen, Thor-Erik Hoftaniska, Christian Bakke).

They lost only one match – to their nearest rivals and runners-up Miniter (Gillian Miniter, Joe Grue, Agustin Madala, Mikael Rimstedt).

O Samba (Andrei Kavalenka, Miroslaw Milaszewski, Andrzej Jeleniewski, Serguei Poletaev, Boguslaw Nidecki) finished third.

Full results HERE

Many apologies to the winners who were omitted the first time:  the website editor hadn’t noticed that there were separate ranking lists for each direction.

A record 152 pairs took part in the 2024 Warm-Up Pairs.  It was a noisy occasion, perhaps on account of the cocktail party just beforehand, but played in good humour.

Congratulations to the winners,Wim van Luijk and Anneke van der Meer of the Netherlands (NS) and Marius Bartnes and Frederic Wilt of Norway (EW).

The top Madeiran pairs were Eduardo Fernandes and Pedro Macedo (NS) and Bruno and Pedro Macedo (EW).

Full results HERE

Their astonishing performance came to the expected conclusion for Ola Rimstedt and António Palma, who won by a final margin of just over 5%.  Congratulations on both the performance and the victory.

Thor-Erik Hoftaniska and Christian Bakke of Norway climbed ten places with a huge session score of 71.45% to finish second.  Bronze medallists were Pim Coppens and Sibrand van Oosten of the Netherlands, maintaining their second-session position.

FULL RESULTS HERE

This year’s Charity Challenge was won convincingly by Mike Theelke and Paul Hooker of the UK, almost 4% ahead of the runners-up, Christine Winckel and Hans Metselaar (Netherlands).  In 3rd place were Lasse Utter and Maria Tulonen (Finland).

80 pairs took part.  Thank you all for your support.  The amount raised for One Day for Life will be announced at the Prize-giving next Sunday.

1^st Mike Theelke – Paul Hooker (England) 64.83%
2^nd Christine Winckel – Hans Metselaar (NL) 60.90%
3^rd Lasse Utter – Maria Tulonen (FI) 60.42%
4^th João do Amaral – Ziza Jovic (PT/SE) 60.20%
5^th Willem van Eijck – Inez van Eijck (NL) 59.01%

6^th Jeppe Juhl – Szczepan Smoczynski (DK/PL) 58.56%
7^th Eeva Parvianinen – Olli Jalonen (FI) 57.67%
8^th Sophie Cunningham – Paul Cunningham (Wales) 57.25%
9^th Nick Nautilus – Frederic Boldt (DE) 56.83%
10^th João Machado – José Macedo (PT – Madeira) 56.73%

Full results HERE

A very international flavour to the top placings in today’s event.  The winners were Franz Roettger & Kerstin Sosnowski of Germany (NS) and Harry Burmania & Dennis Ottevanger of the Netherlands (EW) but quite a lot of countries were represented in the top three places.  Congratulations to the two victorious pairs.

North-South
1st Franz Roettger – Kerstin Sosnowski (DE) +53.8
2nd Sarko Kassabian – Marie Therese Hambrick (CA) +52.9
3rd Gitte Hecht-Johansen – Szczepan Smoczynski (DK/PL) +36.6

East-West
1st Harry Burmania – Dennis Ottevanger (NL) +51.8
2nd Bengt Emanuelsson – Haakan Tjärnemo (SE) +48.5
3rd Pierre Fougerouse – Jane Marland (FR/CH) +43.3

Full results HERE

It’s been a good tournament so far for Hans Kreuning and Saha Ouda of the Netherlands – having won yesterday’s Matchpoint Pairs, they triumphed in the first our our two IMP Pairs as North-South winners.  East-West proved equally successful for the Dutch, with Harry Burmania and Dennis Ottevanger taking top spot.

North-South

1st Hans Kreuning – Saha Ouda (NL) +39.38
2nd Fred Kreek – Helene Thygesen (DK) +27.52
3rd Ingibjorg Johannesdottir – Thordur Sigurdsson (IS) +24.10

East-West

1st Harry Burmania – Dennis Ottevanger (NL) +55.69
2nd Frederico Teixeira – Ricardo Fernandes (PT) +49.28
3rd Alejandro Gaytan de Ayala – Patrice Fincias (ES/FR) +44.76

Full results HERE

The first event of Madeira 2024 was won by Petur Orn Gudjonsson & Aevar Armansson of Iceland (North-South) and Hans Kreuning & Saha Ouda of the Netherlands (East-West). Congratulations to our first winners of the year.

NORTH-SOUTH
1st Petur Orn Gudjonsson – Aevar Armansson (IS) 69.14%
2nd Nuno Martins – Laura Woodruff (PT) 59.83%
3rd Lasse Utter – Maria Tulonen (FI) 58.47%

EAST-WEST
1st Hans Kreuning – Saha Ouda (NL) 64.10%
2nd Frederic Boldt – Nick Nautilus (DE) 60.76%
3rd Svein Markussen – Roennaug Asla (NO) 60.62%

44 pairs took part. Full results HERE