{"id":12333,"date":"2026-02-20T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/?p=12333"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:04:38","slug":"3rd-european-winter-transnational-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/3rd-european-winter-transnational-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd\u00a0European Winter Transnational Championships &#8211; and the winners are :"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on the momentum of last year\u2019s outstanding edition, the Winter Transnational Championships made a successful return to the Czech capital for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a03rd European Winter Transnational Championships\u00a0were held in\u00a0Prague, Czech Republic, from 10 to 19 February 2026, under the auspices of the European Bridge League (EBL). The Championships took place at the\u00a0Top Congress Hotel Prague\u00a0and were open to players and teams from all around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-55c3db0\" id=\"the-titles-across-all-competitions-were-claimed-by-the-following-winners\" data-block-id=\"55c3db0\"><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">The titles across all competitions were claimed by the following winners:<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-9e0d0c8\" id=\"strong-zimmermann-cup-strong\" data-block-id=\"9e0d0c8\"><h4 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\"><strong>Zimmermann Cup<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team <strong>Knottebelt<\/strong> \u2014 Maggie Knottenbelt, Michael Byrne, Oscar Nijssen, Ben Norton, Stefano Tommasini and Tim van de Paverd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-c2a7d53\" id=\"strong-swiss-cup-strong\" data-block-id=\"c2a7d53\"><h4 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\"><strong>Swiss Cup<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team <strong>Altshuler<\/strong> \u2014 Ron Pachtman, Piotr Zatorski, Gilad Altshuler and Yoram Aviram<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-e869655\" id=\"strong-winter-open-pairs-strong\" data-block-id=\"e869655\"><h4 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\"><strong>Winter Open Pairs<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ram Soffer &amp; Ron Sheffy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-4f25819\" id=\"strong-bam-strong\" data-block-id=\"4f25819\"><h4 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\"><strong>BAM<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team <strong>Latvia<\/strong> \u2014 Edgars Olla, Jurijs Balasovs, Janis Ilzins and Karlis Rubins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-01ba4aa\" id=\"strong-european-winter-mixed-teams-championship-strong\" data-block-id=\"01ba4aa\"><h4 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\"><strong>European Winter Mixed Teams Championship<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team <strong>Daisy Chain <\/strong>\u2014 Hilda Setton, Pierre Franceschetti, Cedric Lorenzini and Marion Michielsen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-2fdeb35\" id=\"strong-european-winter-mixed-pairs-strong\" data-block-id=\"2fdeb35\"><h4 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\"><strong>European Winter Mixed Pairs<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sophie Zaidenberg Gatt &amp; Eitan Gisin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building on the momentum of last year\u2019s outstanding edition, the Winter Transnational Championships made a successful return to the Czech capital for the second year&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"level":[],"class_list":["post-12333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12333"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=12333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}