Jan Martel (bridge)
Janet Friedman Martel (born February 26, 1943) is an American bridge player from Davis, California.[1] A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, she is a retired attorney and a past president of the United States Bridge Federation (USBF).[1] She is married to Chip Martel, a world champion bridge player. She was previously married to Lew Stansby another world champion player. Her parents Milton and Rose Friedman were both free market economists.[2] Her brother David D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist theorist. Martel has won seven national championships, or national-rated events at North American Bridge Championships meets.[3] Playing under the name Jan Stansby with Pat Leary in 1974, she won the Whitehead Women's Pairs, the premier ACBL annual championship for women pairs.[lower-alpha 1] She was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012. [5]
Bridge accomplishments
Honors
Wins
- North American Bridge Championships (7)
- Whitehead Womens Pairs (1) 1974
- Grand National Teams (1) 2009 [7]
- Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1986 [8]
- Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1994 [9]
- Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1986 [10]
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2001 [11]
- North American Pairs Flight A (1) 1988
Runners-up
- North American Bridge Championships (7)
- Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1988 [12]
- Grand National Teams (1) 2006 [7]
- Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1996 [8]
- Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1980, 1985, 1987 [9]
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2004 [11]
Notes
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Manley, Brent; Horton, Mark; Greenberg-Yarbro, Tracey; Rigal, Barry, eds. (2011). The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge - Biographies and Results (compact disk) (7th ed.). Horn Lake, MS: American Contract Bridge League. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-939460-99-1.
- ↑ Alan Truscott's column in the NY Times, November 23, 1982
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Martel, Jan". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
- ↑ "NABC Winners – by Name: Jan Stansby". ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Induction by Year" Archived 2014-12-05 at the Wayback Machine. Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
- ↑ Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge Blackwood Award.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "GNT Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2009-07-24. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Machlin Swiss Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-29. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Wagar Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ "Women's BAM Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Mixed BAM Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-24. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ "Whitehead Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-27. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
External links
- Citation at the ACBL Hall of Fame (archived) – with video interview
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