TT women’s bridge team cop gold

Guatemala, Guadeloupe and TT were the only three teams participating in the playoff of 100 boards, at 50 per day. The TT women won the round-robin contest and played Guadeloupe in the two-day finals, of another 100 boards. And the TT team prevailed, with a 289-200 result .

According to TT captain Howard, “our team (were) not able to play in the pairs tournament because we arrived too late for the start of the game, but Denise and myself were allowed to drop into the consolation segment where we won gold medals .

“Our team should have been going to the World Tournament, which is called the Venice Cup, in Lyon (from) August 12-26 2017, but we did not meet the qualification as a pair was not sent to Poland last year