National Teams
- For the histories of the three quadrennial tournaments, see World Team Olympiad.
Italy, England, and Japan won the Open, Women, and Seniors Teams. The Senior Teams is not a WMSG medal event.
These three tournaments for national teams continue the Teams Olympiad inaugurated in 1960. They differ from the "World Teams Championships" now conducted in odd-number years in that the fields are open to one team from every bridge nation without pre-qualification in geographical zones. All teams play short matches for one week after which 16 leaders enter one week of knockout play with no carryover scores. The round-robins are incomplete (split fields) and the knockout matches are shorter than for the World Teams, which are two-week tournaments with merely 22 pre-qualified teams.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Teams | Italy | England | Norway |
| Women Teams | England | China | USA |
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