WBF Youth Award

The Joan Gerard Youth Awards were established in 1989 by the World Bridge Federation to celebrate the sportsmanship of competitive youth contract bridge players. They were originally called the WBF Youth Award and were awarded biennially to four competitive bridge players under the age of 26. From 1995 to 2006, this coincided with the World Junior Camp.[1] They were discontinued in 2007 at the same time as the discontinuation of the camps but reinstated in 2013 in a new form, being awarded annually at the Youth Bridge Teams Championships to a Junior, a Youngster, a Girl, and starting in 2015, a Kid. After the passing of Joan Gerard, they were renamed in her memory.[2]

Winners
Winners (1989-2007)
Year Winners
1989 Wim Hendriks, The NetherlandsAndrew J. Merrison, Great BritainWitold Tomaszek, PolandSergej Zernov, USSR
1991 Lennart Heip, BelgiumJulia Korus, GermanyStephan Magnusson, SwitzerlandPeter Pade, Denmark
1993 Panos Papadopoulos, GreeceMarco Pengov, FranceBrian Powell, Great BritainRuth Sorrell, Israel
1995 Andrei Mihailescu, SwitzerlandHenrik Ron, DenmarkTony Seto, USAShelley Unger, Austria
1997 Mette Drogemuller, DenmarkDaniel Stanghelle, NorwaySchelte Wijma, The NetherlandsDaniel Zagorin, USA
1999 Josh Heller, CanadaMonika Miroslaw, GermanyKathrine Bertheau, SwedenThomas Schönfeldt, Denmark
2001 Niek Brink, The NetherlandsKostas Koussis, GreeceDaniel Mogilnick, PolandOphir Reshef, Israel
2003 Kåre Gjaldbaek, DenmarkBenjy Green, EnglandPhilippos Karamanlis, GreeceJoel Wooldridge, USA
2004 Sunisa Chodchoy, ThailandJoshua Donn, USACatalin-Lucian Lazar, RomaniaBjörn Sörling, Sweden
2006 Nicholas Rodwell, AustraliaRosaline Barendregt, BelgiumSteve de Roos, BelgiumJoe Grue, USA
Winners (2013-2014)
Year Juniors WinnerYoungsters WinnerGirls Winner
2013 Adam Kaplan, USALi Qian, ChinaEllena Moskovsky, Australia
2014 Botswana TeamIda Grönkvist, SwedenJessica Brake, Australia
Winners (2015–present)
Year Juniors WinnerYoungsters WinnerGirls WinnerKids Winner
2015 Rodrigo Garcia Da Rosa, ArgentinaFang Zhengyuan, ChinaSelena Pepić, SerbiaKacper Kopka, Poland
2016 Mikael Grönkvist, SwedenBermuda TeamSusanna Broccolino, Italy, Renee Cooper, Australia, Indonesian TeamIsis Lundkvist, Sweden
2017 Christian Bakke, NorwayMartin Nataf, FranceJinyi Ma, China, Sarah Combescure, FranceAnshul Bhatt, India

References
  1. "The World Junior Camp - World Bridge Federation". www.worldbridge.org. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  2. "The WBF Youth Awards - Youth World Bridge". youth.worldbridge.org. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
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