YEAR |
VENUE |
VENICE
CUP
WINNERS |
1974 |
Venice,
Italy |
USA |
1976 |
Monte
Carlo, Monaco |
USA |
1978 |
New
Orleans, LA, USA |
USA |
1981 |
Port
Chester, NY, USA |
Great
Britain |
1985 |
São
Paulo, Brazil |
Great
Britain |
1987 |
Ocho
Rios, Jamaica |
USA |
1989 |
Perth,
Australia |
USA |
1991 |
Yokohama,
Japan |
USA |
1993 |
Santiago,
Chile |
USA |
1995 |
Beijing,
China |
Germany |
1997 |
Hammamet,
Tunisia |
USA |
1974
- Venice, Italy. Despite being the reigning European Women's
Champions and World Olympiad Women's Team Champions, the Italian
team of Marisa Bianchi and Anna Valenti, Rina Jabes and Antonietta
Robaudo, Maria Venturini and Luciana Canessa was narrowly beaten
in the inaugural Venice Cup by the United States team of Dorothy
Hayden Truscott and Emma Jean Hawes, Carol Sanders and Betty Ann
Kennedy, Marietta Passell and Betty Cohen, with Ruth McConnell as
non-playing captain. The margin in the 136-board match was 297 IMPs
to 262.
1976 - Monte Carlo, Monaco. On this occasion, the United
States were again victorious defeating the 1975 European Women's
Champions, Great Britain, by 395 IMPs to 211 over 140 boards. The
US team consisted of four players who had been on the 1975 winning
team - Truscott, Hawes, Sanders and Kennedy - plus Gail Moss and
Jacqui Mitchell, with McConnell, again, as the captain.
1978 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. There were five contestants:
the United States as defending champions; Italy, the 1977 European
Champions; Argentina, representing South America; Australia, from
Zone 7; and the Philippines, representing the Far East. The United
States won again by defeating Italy 229 ½ IMPs to 140 in
a 64 board final. The US players were Mary Jane Farrell and Marilyn
Johnson, Jacqui Mitchell and Gail Moss and Emma Jean Hawes and Dorothy
Hayden Truscott; this last pair registering their third successive
victory along with non-playing captain Ruth McConnell.
1981 - Port Chester, New York, USA. After narrowly beating
out Brazil for second place in a five-team round robin play, Great
Britain went on to hand the United States its first loss in a Venice
Cup final. Great Britain, which began with a carryover from the
round robin of 21 2/3 IMPs, won the 96 board final 160 2/3 IMPs
to 122. The winning team consisted of Pat Davies, Sandra Landy,
Nicola Gardener and Sally Sowter. Maureen Dennison and Diana Williams
also played in the round robin, but not in the final. Derek Rimmington
was the non-playing captain.
1985 - São
Paulo, Brazil. Ten teams participated, including first time
participants, India and Chinese Taipei. In the semi-finals, USA
1 beat Chinese Taipei handily 342 to 246; and Great Britain withstood
a stiff challenge by France after trailing early eventually winning
276 to 241. Great Britain (Nicola Smith (Gardener) and Pat Davies,
Sally Horton (Sowter) and Sandra Landy, Michelle Brunner and Gillian
Scott-Jones, with Grattan Endicott as the non-playing captain) won
the final 323 to 213, having led from the start.
1987 - Ocho Rios, Jamaica. The United States (Judi Radin
and Kathie Wei, Lynn Deas and Beth Palmer, Cheri Bjerkan and Juanita
Chambers) defeated France in the final. Italy defeated USA II for
the bronze medal.
1989 - Perth, Australia. The United States (Kitty Bethe and
Marge Gwozdzinsky, Karen McCallum and Kerri Shuman, Lynn Deas and
Beth Palmer, with non-playing captain Dorothy Hayden Truscott) defeated
the Netherlands by 352-318 IMPs after trailing by 23 IMPs with just
13 boards to play. Canada defeated Germany in the play-off for the
bronze medal.
1991 - Yokohama, Japan. USA II (Lynn Deas and Stasha Cohen,
Sue Picus and Sharon Osberg, Nell Cahn and Nancy Pasell, with non-playing
captain Kathie Wei) comfortably repelled a challenge from Austria
358-258. The Chinese took the bronze medal, beating USA I.
1993 - Santiago, Chile. USA II (Sharon Osberg and Sue Picus,
Jill Meyers and Kay Schulle, Karen McCallum and Kerri Sanborn and
non-playing captain Jo Morse) retained the trophy, comfortably beating
Germany 325.5-272. Sweden took the bronze medal.
1995 - Beijing, China. Germany (Daniela von Arnim, Sabine
Auken, Karin Caesar, Marianne Moegel, Beate Nehmert and Andrea Rauscheid)
took revenge on the United States, represented by Karen McCallum,
Kitty Munson, Sue Picus, Rozanne Pollack, Kerri Sanborn and Carol
Simon, by beating them 312-248. This was the first time a non-American
team had won the Venice Trophy since 1987. The bronze medal went
to France.
1997 - Hammamet, Tunisia. USA I (Jill Meyers, Randi Montin,
Tobi Sokolow, Mildred Breed, Marinesa Letizia, Lisa Berkowitz, and
non-playing captain Sue Picus) beat a young popular Chinese team
(Ming Sun, Yan Lu, Ya Lan Zhang, Ling Gu, Yu Zhang, Wen Fei Wang,
and non-playing captain Jihong Hu) in the final by 244-184. USA
II took the bronze medal, beating France in the play-off.
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