COMPETITIONS & HISTORY |
You can find on these sub-menus, topics which should extend your depth of knowledge of the Wakefield Bridge Club & it's associated history & the past achievements of members. Enjoy..................
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CLUB PROMOTIONS |
We like to celebrate all Master Point promotions for all our members. Please look at the notice board in the club for the most current ones.
For March 2024, we congratulate :-
Roger Blackall.
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The Wakefield Express records the Birth of the Club |
Click here, and you can read the original reports from The Wakefield Express, of some of our Wakefield Bridge Club's first meetings in Autumn 1953. If nothing else, this provides an insight into how the reporting world has changed, where all the disastrous stories of the world are splashed everywhere, and the nice gentle articles are relegated to not being published. We hope you enjoy these simple pieces of nostalgia..............
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The Wakefield Express records the 70th Anniversary of the Club |
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Competition Winners - Best Yearly Averages with Recent History Explained |
The table below shows the winners for the best average score on each of the Club sessions after COVID.
Notice, particularly, the increased sessions available showing Club growth & diversity. No accolades were given in the preceding missing years as explained below.
The 2019 /2020 season was cut short by the COVID epidemic,with the last session taking place on the 17th March 2020. Bridge at Wakefield started again on 10th August 2020 as an on-line version on a Monday evening initially. In September 2020, Monday morning & Thursday evenings sessions were restarted again, but on-line. Tuesday evenings were also restarted at the same time, but under the guise of the newly formed Oliver Cowan Bridge Club. It was with Oliver's help, assistance & expertise that we played at all on-line. This continued until 19th July 2021, when COVID restrictions were lifted & we were able to meet up in groups indoors. Initially the Tuesday sessions were run in conjunction with the Oliver Cowan Bridge Club on-line session, who has since gone on to build a successful on-line Bridge Club business, but eventually towards the end of the year 2021, we started to run our own F2F (face to face) sessions.
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Monday Afternoon |
Monday Evening |
Tuesday Evening |
Thursday Evening |
Friday Morning |
2022/2023 |
N/A |
Dave Hughes |
Oliver Paynter |
Martin Fenton |
Peter Wallace |
2023/2024 |
John Dalton |
Dave Hughes |
Martin Fenton |
Tony Murray/ Tony Johnson |
Brian Leggetter |
2024/2025 |
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2025/2026 |
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The table below shows the winners for the best average score on each of the club nights prior to COVID.
Year |
Overall |
Monday
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Thursday |
Tuesday |
2018/19 |
Geoff Newman |
Brian Leggetter/Tony Murray |
John O'Sullivan |
John Roberts |
2017/18 |
Brian Leggetter |
Tony Murray |
Ian Johns |
Peter Jeans |
2016/17 |
Adrian Goulding |
Brian Leggetter/Tony Murray |
Geoff Newman |
Karen Lemm |
2015/16 |
Geoff Newman |
Brian Leggetter |
Dennis Thompson |
Karen Lemm |
2014/15 |
Brian Leggetter |
Brian Leggetter |
Brian Leggetter |
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2013/14 |
Brian Leggetter |
Brian Leggetter |
Brian Leggetter |
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2012/13 |
Brian Leggetter |
Tony Murray |
Geoff Newman |
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2011/12 |
Brian Leggetter |
Brian Leggetter/Tony Murray |
Geoff Newman |
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2010/11 |
Tony Murray |
Brian Leggetter |
Malcolm Robinson |
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20109/10 |
Geoff Newman |
John O'Sullivan |
Roger Gasgoyne |
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2008/09 |
Tony Murray |
Brian Leggetter |
Malcolm Robinson |
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2007/08 |
Bryan Grayson |
John O'Sullivan |
Prior Tony Kent |
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2006/07 |
Tony Kent |
Brian Leggetter |
Malcolm Robinson |
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2005/06 |
Brian Leggetter |
Tony Murray |
Tony Kent |
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2004/05 |
Bryan Grayson |
Adrian Goulding |
Geoff Newman |
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2003/04 |
Tony Kent |
Bryan Grayson |
Brian Leggetter |
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2002/03 |
Geoff Newman |
Bryan Grayson |
Adrian Goulding |
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2001/02 |
Bryan Grayson |
John O'Sullivan |
Gail Wood |
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2000/01 |
Hugh Davidson |
Tony Murray |
John O'Sullivan |
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Prior to this cups were given out to the individual winners (or pairs) of any individual nights competitions or special events. As time went along our members elected to not want to be presented with the cups, and these were scrapped in 2021. The individual sessions competitions within the club remains though, in the guise of a table of honour, whereas, the special events have disappeared.
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