The USA has won more contract bridge world championships than any other country.
However, the question is complicated. There are many bridge competitions listed as "world events." At each, there may be many categories of competition: both pairs and team competitions comprised of open, women's, mixed, senior and youth trophies. The World Bridge Federation (WBF) hosts the World Bridge Series Championships (WBSC), the most prestigious world championship events. Contested every four years since 1962, the WBSC now determines 13 world champions by nationality in the above-listed categories.
The Bermuda Cup, awarded to the winning open team, is the oldest, most frequently contested, and most widely acknowledged, WBF world championship. The Bermuda Cup has been contested 40 times since its inaugural year of 1950 (the Bermuda Cup became part of the WBSC in 1962). The USA has won the Bermuda Cup 18 times, followed by Italy (14), the Netherlands and France (2 each) and Great Britain, Norway, Brazil and Iceland (1 each).
IAAF World Cross Country Championships was created in 1973.
World University Cross Country Championships was created in 1968.
Alan F. Truscott has written: 'The Great Bridge Scandal' -- subject(s): World contract bridge championship 'Doubles and redoubles' -- subject(s): Collections of games, Contract bridge, Doubles 'Grand slams' -- subject(s): Contract bridge, Slams 'Basic bridge in three weeks' -- subject(s): Contract bridge 'On bidding' -- subject(s): Bidding, Contract bridge 'Master bridge by question and answer' -- subject(s): Contract bridge
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Ely Culbertson has written: 'The strange lives of one man' 'Contract bridge blue book' -- subject(s): Contract bridge 'Culbertson's summary' -- subject(s): Contract bridge '300 contract bridge hands' -- subject(s): Contract bridge 'Ely Culbertson's quiz book' -- subject(s): Puzzles 'Our fight for total peace' -- subject(s): International organization, World politics 'Culbertson's own contract bridge self-teacher' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Lending library, Contract bridge 'Culbertson's summary of contract bridge' -- subject(s): Contract bridge 'The two-hand card game' -- subject(s): Jo-jotte (Game)
Yugoslavija (current Serbia)
Brazil with 5
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Italy has the most followed by Brazil
The country that won gold in the 1948 World Fencing Championships was Denmark.
The longest bridge in Japan and the world is the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge, completed in 1998 at a length of 1,991 metres.
There was no 1996 World Cup. However, there were the 1996 European Championships which were hosted by England.