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On behalf of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute I would like to thank all of the very generous and loyal bridge players throughout Australia who supported the Bridge for Brain Research Challenge in 2008.

With the strong support of the Australian Bridge Federation (ABF) we had 93 clubs participate this year with over 2,340 bridge players involved nationally.

With so many scores, the ABF did a fantastic job collating all the scores to determine an overall winner from 93 clubs. This year I would especially like to thank John Delaney, Martin Willcox and Jane Rasmussen who have donated a lot of their personal time and energy to get these results to us.

The event this year has raised over $25,000 for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Dementia Research at the Institute. This is a wonderful result, which each Club should be extremely proud of.

Final results for the challenge:

Overall National Winners:

Place	Name	Club		Percentage
1	Hardman, Stack	Mandurah Bridge Club	70.13

Overall National Winner + 70yrs

Place	Name	Club		Percentage
1	Gibson, Schipke	Cairns Bridge Club	64.902

Please note: because not everyone indicated their ages this year we have had to make a decision based on the information we received from participants.

National Top 10:

Place	Name	Club	Percentage
1	Hardman, Stack	Mandurah Bridge Club	70.13
2	Allen, Grover	NSWBA	69.43
3	Letts, McIlroy	Esperance Bridge Club	69.27
4	Wright, Wright	Randwick Bridge Club	69.06
5	Brown, Van Der Veeke	Wodonga Contract Bridge Club	68.96
6	Folkard, Burn	Bridgefolk	68.51
7	Carr, Davidson	Moreton Bribie Bridge Club	66.81
8	Ellaway, Ellaway	Queensland Contract Bridge Club	66.76
9	Tall, Trollope	Noosa Bridge Club	66.60
10	Priol, Lameks	Springwood Contract Bridge Club	66.55

State Top 5 (NSW / ACT):

Place	Name	Club	Percentage
2	Allen, Grover	NSWBA	69.43
4	Wright, Wright	Randwick Bridge Club	69.06
6	Folkard, Burn	Bridgefolk	68.51
10	Priol, Lameks	Springwood Contract Bridge Club	66.55
11	Dunsford, Neil	Trumps Bridge Centre	66.46

State Top 5 (VIC):

Place	Name	Club	Percentage
5	Brown, Van Der Veeke	Wodonga Contract Bridge Club	68.96
12	Ragg, Read	Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club Bridge	66.42
13	Szuveges, Ogle	Moonee Valley Bridge Club	66.14
17	Turner, Carroll	Echuca Bridge Club	65.20
27	Healy, French	Macedon Ranges Bridge Club	63.93

State Top 4 (TAS):

Place	Name	Club	Percentage
56	Bailey, Bailey	Tamar Bridge Club	61.47
57	Callahan, Wyllie	Tamar Bridge Club	61.46
117	Ruthven, Weston	Tamar Bridge Club	58.83
175	Lindsay, Wallace	Tamar Bridge Club	57.27
184	Clark, Goldsteen-House	Tamar Bridge Club	56.98

State Top 5 (QLD):

Place	Name	Club	Percentage
7	Carr, Davidson	Moreton Bribie Bridge Club	66.81
8	Ellaway, Ellaway	Queensland Contract Bridge Club	66.76
9	Tall, Trollope	Noosa Bridge Club	66.60
14	Sinclair, Hoffmann	Goondiwindi Contract Bridge Club	65.31
15	Wells, Meldrum	Toowong Bridge Club	65.31

State Top 5 (WA):

Place	Name	Club	Percentage
1	Hardman, Stack	Mandurah Bridge Club	70.13
3	Letts, McIlroy	Esperance Bridge Club	69.27
24	Trafalski, Mettam	Albany Bridge Club	64.59
86	Laurenson, Samuel	Busselton Bridge Club	59.87
98	Whiting, Webber	Busselton Bridge Club	59.33

State Top 5 (SA):

Place	Name	Club	Percentage
174	Spring, Edwards	Blue Lake Contract Bridge Club	57.29
206	Davis, Telford	Blue Lake Contract Bridge Club	56.56
217	Cowan, Boomsma	Blue Lake Contract Bridge Club	56.22
293	Somerville, Maher	Blue Lake Contract Bridge Club	54.96
318	Mitchell, Mitchell	Blue Lake Contract Bridge Club	54.34

HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL FUNDRAISER

Mr Philip Houlton from the Coffs Harbour Bridge Club $620.00

HIGHEST CLUB FUNDRAISER

Coffs Harbour Bridge Club $1,935.00

Congratulations and well done to all of the above people!

Again, thank you for your support this year I really hope you enjoyed participating in the Challenge and I look forward to working with you next year.