Sabine che oltre al Bridge, ha amato il golf, lo sci e il tennis, pur mantenendo un intenso rapporto di amicizia fino alla sua morte, ha divorziato da Jens nel 2005 e da tempo vive con il campione americano Roy Welland con il quale ha formato una formidabile coppia mista che dal 2013 in poi ha vinto un infinità di titoli.

Una delle poche bridgiste che può oggi gareggiare ad armi pari con l'altro sesso, nel 2008 ha contribuito a riportare la Warren Buffet Cup al di qua dell'Oceano, nel 2013 ha vinto la Vanderbilt Cup agli Spring NABC, è arrivata seconda nella NEC CUP ed ha vinto l'oro agli Europei Open a Coppie ed i World Transnational Mixed Teams nel 2014. Sempre ai NABC ha vinto nel 2014 e nel 2015 il Jacoby e nel 2016 la Spingold. Nel 2017 ha guadagnato l'argento agli Europei Open nel Coppie Miste.

Sabine ha anche vinto i Campionati Italiani Assoluti a Squadre Miste del 2004 e, unico caso nella storia, in coppia con Roy le Olimpiadi a Coppie Open nel 2016 e nel 2023 i Campionati Europei a Coppie Transnazionali.

Negli anni a cavallo tra gli ultimi due secoli ha ricoperto anche diverse cariche amministrative sia presso la WBF che presso la EBL.

Sabine Auken (nee Zenkel), born January 4, 1965 in Bamberg, Germany, current home in Charlottenlund, Denmark, has accumulated an impressive array of championship medals. A WBF World Life Master, she has appeared in seven Venice Cup competitions, winning twice and losing in the final once. Along the way she has collected two gold and three silver medals in European Championship Teams events, and has won four European Pairs Championships (three Ladies and one Mixed). Add to that, wins in all of the major German national championship events and a handful of US National titles and you can see why Auken and Daniela von Arnim are today widely-regarded as Europe 's, and perhaps the World's, leading female partnership.

Many American readers will remember Sabine's whirlwind visit in 1989. She broke the late Jeremy Flint's record of achieving Life Master status in 11 weeks by a full three weeks (although this record has since been beaten by an Icelandic international). She stayed in the US for a number of years and during that time was a regular on the US tournament circuit.

Her bridge and life partnership with Danish lawyer Jens Auken, an international star in his own right, has since led to Sabine's proudest moments so far -- the birth of Jens Christian in April 1995 and Maximilian in June 1999.

Sabine took up golf and tells us that she is pathetic at it, but absolutely loves it. She has been skiing, since she was a child and considers herself quite good at it and absolutely loves it, too. Going to tournaments like St. Moritz in winter where one can go skiing during the day and then just play one session every day after 4 pm is just a perfect combination! She goes running almost every day for about 45 minutes.

Sabine, who in addition to the Bridge, loved golf, skiing and tennis, while maintaining an intense relationship of friendship until his death divorced Jens in 2005 and now lives with American champion Roy Welland with whom she has also ruled a formidable mixed pair.

Major achievements: 1985 Won European Union Women's Pairs (with Anne Moeller) 1986 7th World Women's Pairs (with von Arnim) 1988 11th World Women's Teams Won German National Women's Pairs (with von Arnim ) 1989 Won European Women's Teams (1st ever German team to win a European Teams Championship) (Zenkel, von Arnim, Vogt, Schroeder, Caesar, Moegel) Losing semi-finalist in Venice Cup in Perth, Australia (Lost to Netherlands by 21 IMPs) (Zenkel, von Arnim, Vogt, Schroeder, Caesar, Moegel) Won German Grand National Teams Won US Life Masters Women's Pairs (with Rhoda Walsh) 1990 Won North American Women's Swiss Teams (Zenkel, von Arnim, Rosenkranz, Shuman, McCallum) 1991 5th in Venice Cup 2nd European Women's Teams 1992 Won German National Open Teams 2nd US Life Masters Women's Pairs (with Joan Jackson) 1993 Losing finalist in Venice Cup in Santiago, Chile (lost to USA by 64 IMPs) (Zenkel, von Arnim, Vogt, Nehmert, Caesar, Moegel) Won US Life Masters Women's Pairs (with Janice Seamon) 1994 2nd World Mixed Pairs (with Bob Hamman) Won European Mixed Pairs (with Georg Nippgen) 1995 Won Venice Cup in Beijing, China (Beat USA by 70 IMPs) (Auken, von Arnim, Nehmert, Rauscheid, Caesar, Moegel) Won European Ladies Pairs (with von Arnim) 2nd European Women´s Teams 1996 2nd European Mixed Teams 1997 Won European Ladies Pairs (with von Arnim) 1998 3rd Macallan Invitational Pairs (with von Arnim). 2nd World Women´s Teams (Auken, von Arnim, Farwig, Stawowy), 2nd World Women´s Pairs (with von Arnim), 3rd World Mixed Pairs (with Jens Auken), 1999 Won IOC Grand Prix Europe vs USA (Smith-Davies, d‘Ovidio-Bessis, Vriend-van der Pas, Auken-von Arnim), 2000 Won European Mixed Teams (Auken, Auken, Schaltz, Schaltz), 3rd Women's Team Olympiad in Maastricht (Auken, von Arnim, Nehmert, Rauscheid, Farwig, Stawowy). 2001 Won European Women´s Pairs (with von Arnim) Won Venice Cup in Paris , France (Auken, von Arnim, Nehmert, Rauscheid, Farwig, Hackett) (Beat France by 2½ IMPs), 2002 3rd Cap Gemini Invitational Pairs (with Klaus Reps), 2nd European Women's Teams (Auken, von Arnim, Nehmert, Rauscheid, Gromann, Weber), 3rd World Mixed Pairs (with Jens Auken), 2003 3rd European Mixed Teams Championships (Auken, Auken, Schaltz, Blakset), 2013 1st Vanderbilt Cup (Welland Team), 2nd NEC CUP, 1st European Open Pairs, 2014 1st Jacoby Trophy, 2014 Italian Mixed Teams, 2014 World Transnational Mixed Teams, Jacoby, 2015 Jacoby, 2016 Spingold, 2017 Mixed Pairs at European Open.

Only case in the history of bridge, she won paired Roy the Open Pairs Olympiads in 2016 and the European Transnational Open Pairs in 2023.

At the turn of the century has also held several administrative positions both at the WBF that at the EBL.