Jan Martel (bridge)

Jan F. 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 player.

Martel has won seven so-called national championships, or national-rated events at North American Bridge Championships meets.^[2] 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.^[4]

Bridge accomplishments

Honors

• ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award, 2012^[4][5]

Wins

• North American Bridge Championships (6)
  • North American Pairs (1) 1988 ^[6]
  • Grand National Teams (1) 2009 ^[7]
  • Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1986 ^[8]
  • Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1994 ^[9]
  • Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1986 ^[10]
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2001 ^[11]

Runners-up

• North American Bridge Championships (6)
  • Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1988 ^[12]
  • Grand National Teams (1) 2006 ^[7]
  • Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1996 ^[8]
  • Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1985, 1987 ^[9]
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2004 ^[11]

Notes

1. The ACBL Hall of Fame provides only a citation, or short bridge biography, without information about Jan Martel's birth or marriages.^[2] But the organization's online database "NABC Winners" provides for Jan Stansby her entire record of wins and runners-up in national-rated events.^[3]

References

1. Manley, Brent, Editor; Horton, Mark, Co-Editor; Greenberg-Yarbro, Tracey, Co-Editor; Rigal, Barry, Co-Editor (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. "Martel, Jan". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
3. "NABC Winners – by Name: Jan Stansby". ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
4. "Induction by Year". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
5. Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge Blackwood Award.
6. "NAP Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-21. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
7. "GNT Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2009-07-24. p. 8. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
8. "Machlin Swiss Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-29. p. 10. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
9. "Wagar Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 10. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
10. "Women's BAM Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 4. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
11. "Mixed BAM Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-24. p. 14. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
12. "Whitehead Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-27. p. 5. Retrieved 2014-10-17.

External links

• Citation at the ACBL Hall of Fame – with video interview
• "International record for Jan Martel". World Bridge Federation.