The 2nd World Mahjong Championship 2010 was held at the Nationaal Denksport Centrum 'Den Hommel' in Utrecht, Netherlands from August 27 to 29, in 2010. [1] [2]
In this competition, there was a national team system which awards top 3 players in each country instead of the team system. [3] [4]
The names are ordered as Given name and Surname.
Rank | Name | Nationality | Table Points | Mini Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Linghua Jiao | China | 32 | 1424 |
2 | Olivier Boivin | France | 30 | 1318 |
3 | Elisabeth Frischenschlager | Austria | 29 | 1124 |
4 | Huaou Xu | China | 27 | 769 |
5 | Jesper Willemoes Hansen | Denmark | 27 | 480 |
6 | Jianguo Liang | China | 26 | 1061 |
7 | Lifang Tong | China | 26 | 857 |
8 | Nadine König | Germany | 26 | 748 |
9 | Bingcheng Zhang | China | 26 | 627 |
10 | Moa Henriët | Sweden | 26 | 571 |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Members | Rank | Table Points | Mini Points | Total Table Points | Total Mini Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | China | China | Linghua Jiao | 1 | 32 | 1424 | 85 | 3254 |
Huaou Xu | 4 | 27 | 769 | |||||
Jianguo Liang | 6 | 26 | 1061 | |||||
2 | France | France | Olivier Boivin | 2 | 30 | 1318 | 78 | 2565 |
Joel Ratsimandresy | 17 | 24 | 674 | |||||
Nathalie Mahé | 19 | 24 | 573 | |||||
3 | Denmark | Denmark | Jesper Willemoes Hansen | 5 | 27 | 480 | 77 | 1766 |
Shi Hua Chen Kold | 12 | 25 | 785 | |||||
Jeppe Stig Nielsen | 14 | 25 | 501 | |||||
4 | Japan | Japan | Yaichirō Ōwaki | 13 | 25 | 596 | 71 | 1717 |
Teruhiko Araki | 18 | 24 | 608 | |||||
Katsuyuki Onodera | 28 | 22 | 513 | |||||
5 | Italy | Italy | Marco Bazzocchi | 1 | 24 | 524 | 69 | 1852 |
Patrizia Buscarini | 21 | 23 | 545 | |||||
Luca Gavelli | 25 | 22 | 783 | |||||
208 competitors from 13 countries participated. 8 Chinese competitors did not show up in the competition at the first day.
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