Bermuda Bowl champions: France: Mouiel, Perron, Mari, Moulton, Chemla, Levy

Venice Cup champions: USA1: Berkowitz, Montin, Sokolow, Meyers, Letizia, Breed

This was France's second success in Bermuda Bowl- their first victory came 41 years ago in 1956. They defeated the United States on that occasion also. France clearly was a team of destiny. This year for the first time five European teams were qualified at the Europeans to play in the Bermuda Bowl - the first time that the European allowance had been raised to five. And France finished fifth!

Now they're world champions. The new champions are Paul Chemla, Christian Mari, Hervé Mouiel, Alain Lévy, Michel Perron and Frank Multon, with npc Jean-Louis Stoppa. That makes two consecutive world titles for France - they defeated Indonesia in the Olympiad final last year.

The United States women regained the Venice Cup championship last night, defeating a powerful China team, 249-184. The match was close most of the way, but the American came on very strong over the second half. The champions are Marinesa Letizia, Tobi Sokolow, Mildred Breed, Lisa Berkowitz, Randi Montin and Jill Meyers with Sue Picus as non-playing captain.

The 1st Transnational Teams Championship was won by the team captained by Leandro Burgay of Italy started fast and just kept going - after 32 boards of the 48-deal final they led 132-40. That seemed like too much for Krzysztof Jassem of Poland, and that team conceded without playing the last 32 boards. On the winning team were Burgay, Dano de Falco of Italy, Franco Mariani of Italy and Martens Lesniewski of Poland.

PDF: a format which allows you to see the bulletin on your monitor almost as it is printed in Hammamet. The file is much smaller than the postcript file. It can be printed on any printer but it requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader to be installed in your computer. Download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader free of charge by clicking on the icon.