Results
World meets commonly run for 15 days on a schedule whose details vary.
In 2006 the Women Pairs played Saturday to Friday, the 8th to 14th days of the meet, with five qualifying sessions, five semifinal sessions, and four final sessions. At the start of qualifying, sixteen teams remained in the knockout stage of the marquee teams competition for women, for the McConnell Cup. During qualifying sessions for the pairs, the McConnell teams were reduced from sixteen to four, and players from the twelve "knocked out" teams were eligible to enter pairs competition at the semifinal stage. There were 109 pairs in the qualifier, 63 in the semifinal, and 36 in the final.
United States have won nine of 13 tournaments, Great Britain two, Netherlands one. Fritzi Gordon and Rixi Markus of Great Britain (native Austrians) are the only two-time champion pair; Americans Karen McCallum and Kerri Shuman/Sanborn also have two wins each.
| Year, Site | Entries | Medalists | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962
|
1. | Fritzi Gordon | Rixi Markus | |
| 2. | Fanny Parienté | Marianne Serf | ||
| 3. | Dorothy Hayden | Helen Portugal | ||
| 1966
|
1. | Joan Durran | Jane Juan | |
| 2. | Nancy Gruver | Sue Sachs | ||
| 3. | Mary Jane Farell | Peggy Solomon | ||
| 1970
|
1. | Mary Jane Farell | Marilyn Johnson | |
| 2. | Fritzi Gordon | Rixi Markus | ||
| 3. | Britt Blom | Gunborg Silborn | ||
| 1974
|
1. | Fritzi Gordon | Rixi Markus | |
| 2. | Gerda Goslar | Rita Jacobson | ||
| 3. | Emma Jean Hawes | Dorothy Hayden Truscott | ||
| 1978
|
1. | Judi Radin | Kathie Wei | |
| 2. | Betty Ann Kennedy | Carol Sanders | ||
| 3. | Claude Blouquit | Élisabeth Delor | ||
| 1982
|
1. | Betty Ann Kennedy | Carol Sanders | |
| 2. | Lynn Deas | Beth Palmer | ||
| 3. | Sally Horton | Sandra Landy | ||
| 1986
|
1. | Amalya Kearse | Jacqui Mitchell | |
| 2. | Bettina Kalkerup | Charlotte Palmund | ||
| 3. | Sally Horton | Sandra Landy | ||
| 1990
|
1. | Karen McCallum | Kerri Shuman | |
| 2. | Judi Radin | Kathie Wei | ||
| 3. | Carla Arnolds | Bep Vriend | ||
| 1994
|
1. | Carla Arnolds | Bep Vriend | |
| 2. | Véronique Bessis | Catherine Saul | ||
| 3. | Lynn Deas | Beth Palmer | ||
| 1998
|
1. | Jill Meyers | Shawn Quinn | |
| 2. | Daniela von Arnim | Sabine Auken | ||
| 3. | Véronique Bessis | Catherine D'Ovidio | ||
| 2002
|
97 | 1. | Karen McCallum | Debbie Rosenberg |
| 2. | Blandine de Hérédia | Anne-Frédérique Lévy | ||
| 3. | Irina Levitina | Kerri Sanborn | ||
| 2006
|
109 | 1. | Irina Levitina | Kerri Sanborn |
| 2. | WANG Hongli | WANG Wei Fei | ||
| 3. | Sabine Auken | Janice Seamon-Molson | ||
| 2010
|
81 | 1. | Lynn Deas | Beth Palmer |
| 2. | Susan Culham | Kismet Fung | ||
| 3. | Carla Arnolds | Bep Vriend | ||
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