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Kiwi Second in World Pairs
In 2016, Michael Cornell and Ashley Bach were the joint winners of the WBF World Pairs Championship. In the same Polish city, Wroclaw, earlier this week, our own Michael Whibley finished second in the same event. His was an Australasian success as his partner, from across the Tasman, was Nabil Edgtton.
A great performance in the company of many of the world’s best. They joined the event in the semi-final stage and qualified from the two day 96 board semi-final to the 114 board 2 day final, two boards against each of the other 57 pairs.
They could not catch the runaway winners, the Polish pairing Baras and Lutostanski but they came with a good 60% last session to finish second, in good company when you see who finished third.
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1 |
Krzystof |
Baras |
Piotr |
Lutostanski |
60.24 |
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2 |
Michael |
Whibley |
Nabil |
Edgtton |
55.86 |
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3 |
Geir |
Helgemo |
Fredrick |
Nystrom |
55.31 |
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Michael and Nabil
Their team, with Australians Sartaj Hans and Peter Gill had reached the Round of 16 in the main Teams event, hence exempting them until the semi-final stage missing two days of qualifying in the Pairs.
A great performance from Michael and Nabil. Congratulations.
Richard Solomon
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