# World Women Pairs Championship

The World Women Pairs Championship is a bridge championship held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships. It is restricted to women pairs only.

## Results

World meets commonly run for 15 days on a schedule whose details vary.
In 2006 the Women Pairs played Saturday to Friday, the 8th to 14th days of the meet, with five qualifying sessions, five semifinal sessions, and four final sessions. At the start of qualifying, sixteen teams remained in the knockout stage of the marquee teams competition for women, for the McConnell Cup. During qualifying sessions for the pairs, the McConnell teams were reduced from sixteen to four, and players from the twelve "knocked out" teams were eligible to enter pairs competition at the semifinal stage. There were 109 pairs in the qualifier, 63 in the semifinal, and 36 in the final.
United States pairs have won ten of 14 tournaments through 2014, Great Britain two, Netherlands one, China one. Fritzi Gordon and Rixi Markus of Great Britain (native Austrians) are the only two-time champion pair; Americans Karen McCallum and Kerri Sanborn/Shuman also have two wins each including one as partners in 1990. Sanborn is also the only winner of two gold medals in the World Mixed Pairs Championship, which is contested at the same quadrennial meet.
| Year, Site | Entries | | Medalists | Medalists |
| 1962 Cannes, France | | 1. | Fritzi Gordon | Rixi Markus |
| 1962 Cannes, France | | 2. | Fanny Parienté | Marianne Serf |
| 1962 Cannes, France | | 3. | Dorothy Hayden | Helen Portugal |
| 1966 Amsterdam, Netherlands | | 1. | Joan Durran | Jane Juan |
| 1966 Amsterdam, Netherlands | | 2. | Nancy Gruver | Sue Sachs |
| 1966 Amsterdam, Netherlands | | 3. | Mary Jane Farell | Peggy Solomon |
| 1970 Stockholm, Sweden | | 1. | Mary Jane Farell | Marilyn Johnson |
| 1970 Stockholm, Sweden | | 2. | Fritzi Gordon | Rixi Markus |
| 1970 Stockholm, Sweden | | 3. | Britt Blom | Gunborg Silborn |
| 1974 Las Palmas, Spain | | 1. | Fritzi Gordon | Rixi Markus |
| 1974 Las Palmas, Spain | | 2. | Gerda Goslar | Rita Jacobson |
| 1974 Las Palmas, Spain | | 3. | Emma Jean Hawes | Dorothy Hayden Truscott |
| 1978 New Orleans, USA | | 1. | Judi Radin | Kathie Wei |
| 1978 New Orleans, USA | | 2. | Betty Ann Kennedy | Carol Sanders |
| 1978 New Orleans, USA | | 3. | Claude Blouquit | Élisabeth Delor |
| After 1980 it was determined that the world championships in even years would continue to be played in Europe and North America. |||||
| 1982 Biarritz, France | | 1. | Betty Ann Kennedy | Carol Sanders |
| 1982 Biarritz, France | | 2. | Lynn Deas | Beth Palmer |
| 1982 Biarritz, France | | 3. | Sally Horton | Sandra Landy |
| 1986 Miami Beach, USA | | 1. | Amalya Kearse | Jacqui Mitchell |
| 1986 Miami Beach, USA | | 2. | Bettina Kalkerup | Charlotte Palmund |
| 1986 Miami Beach, USA | | 3. | Sally Horton | Sandra Landy |
| 1990 Geneva, Switzerland | | 1. | Karen McCallum | Kerri Shuman |
| 1990 Geneva, Switzerland | | 2. | Judi Radin | Kathie Wei |
| 1990 Geneva, Switzerland | | 3. | Carla Arnolds | Bep Vriend |
| 1994 Albuquerque, USA | | 1. | Carla Arnolds | Bep Vriend |
| 1994 Albuquerque, USA | | 2. | Véronique Bessis | Catherine Saul |
| 1994 Albuquerque, USA | | 3. | Lynn Deas | Beth Palmer |
| 1998 Lille, France | | 1. | Jill Meyers | Shawn Quinn |
| 1998 Lille, France | | 2. | Daniela von Arnim | Sabine Auken |
| 1998 Lille, France | | 3. | Véronique Bessis | Catherine D'Ovidio |
| 2002 Montreal, Canada | 97 | 1. | Karen McCallum | Debbie Rosenberg |
| 2002 Montreal, Canada | | 2. | Blandine de Hérédia | Anne-Frédérique Lévy |
| 2002 Montreal, Canada | | 3. | Irina Levitina | Kerri Sanborn |
| 2006 Verona, Italy | 109 | 1. | Irina Levitina | Kerri Sanborn |
| 2006 Verona, Italy | | 2. | WANG Hongli | WANG Wenfei |
| 2006 Verona, Italy | | 3. | Sabine Auken | Janice Seamon-Molson |
| 2010 Philadelphia, USA | 81 | 1. | Lynn Deas | Beth Palmer |
| 2010 Philadelphia, USA | | 2. | Susan Culham | Kismet Fung |
| 2010 Philadelphia, USA | | 3. | Carla Arnolds | Bep Vriend |
| 2014 Sanya, China | 46 | 1. | Liu Shu | Zhou Tao |
| 2014 Sanya, China | | 2. | Huang Yen | Gan Lin |
| 2014 Sanya, China | | 3. | Suci Amita Dewi | Kristina Wahyo Murniati |
| 2018 Orlando, USA | 51 | 1. | Veronique Bessis | Anne-Laure Huberschwiller |
| 2018 Orlando, USA | | 2. | Kathy Sulgrove | Candace Griffey |
| 2018 Orlando, USA | | 3. | Yan Huang | Nan Wang |