Janet Friedman Martel (born February 26, 1943) is an American bridge player from Davis, California. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, she is a retired attorney and a past president of the United States Bridge Federation (USBF). 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. 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. 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.
She was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012.
Bridge accomplishments
Honors
- ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award, 2012
- ACBL Honorary Member, 2018
Wins
- North American Bridge Championships (7)
- Whitehead Womens Pairs (1) 1974
- Grand National Teams (1) 2009
- Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1986
- Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1994
- Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1986
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2001
- North American Pairs Flight A (1) 1988
Runners-up
- North American Bridge Championships (7)
- Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1988
- Grand National Teams (1) 2006
- Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1996
- Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1980, 1985, 1987
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2004
Notes
- The ACBL Hall of Fame provides only a citation, or short bridge biography, without information about Jan Martel's birth or marriages. But the organization's online database "NABC Winners" provides for Jan Stansby her entire record of wins and runners-up in national-rated events.
References
- ^ 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.
- Alan Truscott's column in the NY Times, November 23, 1982
- ^ "Martel, Jan". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
- "NABC Winners – by Name: Jan Stansby". ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
- ^ "Induction by Year" Archived 2014-12-05 at the Wayback Machine. Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
- Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge Blackwood Award.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- "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.
- ^ "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.
- "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.
External links
- Citation at the ACBL Hall of Fame (archived) – with video interview
- "International record for Jan Martel". World Bridge Federation.
- ACBL NABC Database - Jan Martel