Jan Martel (bridge)

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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.

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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

Runners-up

Notes

  1. ↑ The ACBL Hall of Fame provides only a citation, or short bridge biography, without information about Jan Martel's birth or marriages. [3] But the organization's online database "NABC Winners" provides for Jan Stansby her entire record of wins and runners-up in national-rated events. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ Alan Truscott's column in the NY Times, November 23, 1982
  3. 1 2 "Martel, Jan". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
  4. ↑ "NABC Winners – by Name: Jan Stansby". ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
  5. 1 2 "Induction by Year" Archived 2014-12-05 at the Wayback Machine . Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
  6. ↑ Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge Blackwood Award.
  7. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "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.
  10. ↑ "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. 1 2 "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.
  12. ↑ "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.
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