Meike Wortel

Meike Tesse Wortel^[1] (born 23 November 1982)^[2] is a Dutch bridge player. At the annual World Bridge Federation (WBF) meet in October 2014, she won one teams gold medal and one pairs silver medal. Thus she became a World Women Grand Master.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

In the European Bridge League championships she played on three Dutch teams that won gold medals, the 2005 under-26 Women (Girls), the 2007 under-26 (Juniors), and the 2007 Women.

In world championship teams-of-four competition, Wortel was a member of the 6-woman team that won the quadrennial McConnell Cup (women teams) at Sanya, China in October 2014. She played with Marion Michielsen. At the same meet, she and Jacek Pszczoła finished second in the World Mixed Pairs Championship.^[3]

Bridge accomplishments

Wins

• North American Bridge Championships (2)
  • Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 2013 ^[4]
  • Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2012 ^[5]

Runners-up

• North American Bridge Championships (4)
  • Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 2012 ^[6]
  • Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 2008, 2013 ^[7]
  • Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2011 ^[5]

Notes

1. Wortel became a Women WGM during 2014, a year in which she played on the European Bridge League champion women team (Netherlands) as well as the world champion women team and runner-up mixed pair (both transnational).
     See "Players Whose WBF Titles Have Changed This Year" at WBF Master Points (wbfmasterpoints.com), retrieved 2015-01-16; select the WBF Code beside her name to visit her Player Master Point History.

References

1. "Bridge Registration List". SportAccord World Mind Games. October 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
2. "WORTEL Meike". Athlete Information. SportAccord World Mind Games. December 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
3. "14th Red Bull World Bridge Series, Sanya, China" (October 2014). WBF. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
4. "Machlin Swiss Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-29. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
5. "Women's BAM Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 4. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
6. "Life Master Open Pairs Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-11-29. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
7. "Wagar Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 10. Retrieved 2014-10-24.

External links

• Official website (mathematics)
• Wortel at Systems Bioinformatics
• "International record for Meike Wortel". World Bridge Federation.
  
• Bridge Kids: Meike Wortel talks about junior bridge audio-video conversation at YouTube (6 August 2010)
• FIDE profile (chess)