Jan Martel (bridge)
American bridge player (born 1943)
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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 bridge player. She was previously married to Lew Stansby, another world champion player. Her parents, Milton and Rose Friedman, were both free market economists.[2] Her brother, David D. Friedman, is an anarcho-capitalist theorist.
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 Honorary Member, 2018
Wins
- North American Bridge Championships (7)
- Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1974
- Grand National Teams (1) 2009 [7]
- Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1986 [8]
- Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1994 [9]
- Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1986 [10]
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2001 [11]
- North American Pairs Flight A (1) 1988
Runners-up
- North American Bridge Championships (7)
- Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1988 [12]
- Grand National Teams (1) 2006 [7]
- Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1996 [8]
- Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1980, 1985, 1987 [9]
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2004 [11]
