Jan Martel (bridge)

Janet Friedman 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. She was previously married to Lew Stansby another world champion player. Her parents Milton and Rose Friedman were both free market economists.^[2]

Martel has won seven national championships, or national-rated events at North American Bridge Championships meets.^[3] 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.^[a]

She was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012. ^[5]

Bridge accomplishments

Honors

• ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award, 2012^[5][6]

• ACBL Honorary Member, 2018

Wins

• North American Bridge Championships (7)
  • North American Pairs (1) 1988 ^[7]
  • Grand National Teams (1) 2009 ^[8]
  • Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1986 ^[9]
  • Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1994 ^[10]
  • Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1986 ^[11]
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2001 ^[12]
  • North American Pairs Flight A (1) 1988

Runners-up

• North American Bridge Championships (7)
  • Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1988 ^[13]
  • Grand National Teams (1) 2006 ^[8]
  • Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1996 ^[9]
  • Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1980, 1985, 1987 ^[10]
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2004 ^[12]

Notes

1. The ACBL Hall of Fame provides only a citation, or short bridge biography, without information about Jan Martel's birth or marriages.^[3] But the organization's online database "NABC Winners" provides for Jan Stansby her entire record of wins and runners-up in national-rated events.^[4]

References

1. Manley, Brent; Horton, Mark; Greenberg-Yarbro, Tracey; Rigal, Barry, eds. (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. Alan Truscott's column in the NY Times, November 23, 1982
3. "Martel, Jan". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
4. "NABC Winners – by Name: Jan Stansby". ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
5. "Induction by Year". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
6. Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge Blackwood Award.
7. (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-21. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
8. (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2009-07-24. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
9. (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-29. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
10. (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
11. (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
12. (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-24. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
13. (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-27. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.

External links

• at the ACBL Hall of Fame (archived) – with video interview
• "International record for Jan Martel". World Bridge Federation.  
• ACBL NABC Database - Jan Martel