Follow our Canadian players in the 29th World Team Championships. You can read their blogs using the menu at left. You can follow their results using the links below.

What time? If you google 'Brazil Time' you'll see what time it is there. However, for reference, Toronto is 1 hour earlier than Brazil, Vancouver is 4 hours earlier.

Canadian Seniors Team

Arno Hobart, Marty Kirr, Boris Baran, Michael Schoenborn, Joey Silver, John Carruthers, and NPC Dan Jacob

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The Canadian Master Point Press Women’s Team

Pamela Nisbet, Karen Cumpstone, Joan Eaton, Barbara Clinton, Kismet Fung, Susan Culham, NPC Michael Yuen.

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Thank You Master Point Press

The CBF would like to thank Master Point Press for their financial support of the Canadian Bridge Federation. As an acknowledgment, the Canadian Women’s team at this year’s World Championships will be known as the Canada Master Point Press Women’s Team.

The 2009 World Bridge Championships, comprising the Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup, d'Orsi Senior Bowl and Transnational Open Teams competitions, will take place in São Paulo, Brazil, 29 August to 12 September 2009.

The Bermuda Bowl is the symbol of world supremacy at bridge. It is awarded to the winner of the open teams competition between the rep-re-sen-ta-tives of the WBF geographical zones. Since its inauguration in 1950, the competition has been played 38 times. So far, the United States of America were victorious 17 times, while their European rival, Italy, prevailed 14 times. The other titles were won by France (twice), Great Britain, Brazil, Iceland, The Netherlands and Norway, who are the current title holders.

The Venice Cup is awarded to the winner of the zonal competition for women players. It was established in 1974 and so far, only four countries have won it. The reigning champions, the United States of America, lead the race with 10 titles, while Europe follows with six successes achieved by Great Britain (twice), Germany (twice), The Netherlands and France.

The Senior Bowl is a new competition for senior players (59 years of age or older) as from this year competing for the trophy presented by Ernesto d'Orsi, a former WBF president. Representative teams from all zones are invited to participate. So far, the only winners of the competition so far have been the United States of America. They won the inaugural event, in 2001 in Paris, France; in 2003, in Monte Carlo, Monaco; in 2005, in Estoril, Portugal and in 2007, in Shanghai, China.

The World Transnational Open Teams Championship came into being in 1997 in Hammamet, Tunisia. It is contested by teams nominated by the NBOs without nationality or other restrictions. The first winners were the team led by Leandro Burgay of Italy, while the last event held in Shanghai, China 2007, was won by the Zimmermann team, comprising two French, two Italian and a player from Switzerland.

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