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Vale Norma Maguire Borin nacque nel 1930 ed è stata una delle migliori giocatrici australiane dello scorso secolo.
Norma gareggiava con diversi partner maschili nelle competizioni Open e due volte, con il marito Jim che incontrò e sposò quando viveva a Sydney, arrivò a conquistate la medaglia di bronzo nelle Bermuda Bowl del 1971 e 1979.
Prima di separarsi dal marito nel 1983, gestirono insieme per oltre dieci anni un Bridge Club di gran successo nelle vicinanze di Melbourne dove si erano trasferiti, precisamente a South Yarra dove Norma ebbe modo di mettersi in luce anche come insegnante di gran qualità.
Norma ci ha lasciato il 28 novembre del 2010.
Norma’s
(1930 - 2010) longstanding partnership with husband Jim was regarded at
the time as the finest husband-wife partnership in the world.
Their successes, and Norma’s successes with other
partners, are too numerous to list in full.
She was a dual winner of the ANC Open teams event. Her most outstanding result, however, was as a member of the Australian Open Team in Rio de Janeiro in 1979, where Australia narrowly missed out on qualifying for the Bermuda Bowl final.
The Bridge World magazine calculated datums for the qualifying event: in the list of 18 of the world’s finest pairs, Norma and Jim ran third.
In the 70s and 80s, the Borins owned their own bridge club at the ESU in South Yarra. It was a vibrant club, which in many ways became a model for how an affiliated bridge club should be run, with much emphasis on lessons, supervised duplicates and mentoring, in addition to well-organised competitions and congresses – all essential ingredients for the improving player.
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