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

Wins

Runners-up

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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b "Martel, Jan". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
  4. ^ "NABC Winners – by Name: Jan Stansby". ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
  5. ^ a b "Induction by Year" Archived 2014-12-05 at the Wayback Machine. Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
  6. ^ Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge Blackwood Award.
  7. ^ "NAP Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-21. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  8. ^ a b "GNT Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2009-07-24. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  9. ^ a b "Machlin Swiss Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-29. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  10. ^ a b "Wagar Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  11. ^ "Women's BAM Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  12. ^ a b "Mixed BAM Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-24. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  13. ^ "Whitehead Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-27. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.

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