Bridge With The Hacketts

Bridge With The Hacketts
THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL BRIDGE PLAYING FAMILY

Paul Hackett and twin sons, Jason and Justin, together with Justin’s wife Barbara are members of a remarkable family. Between them they have won, or been in the medals, in most of the World Championships.

Their major successes include silver medals in the European Pairs and Teams, the Junior World Championship and, recently, silver in the Mind Sports in Beijing. Add to that Barbara’s two gold, three silver and two bronze medals in European and World Championships and you can get a taste of their many achievements.

Their tally of over 100 wins include major tournaments in such diverse venues as Japan, China, Trinidad, Argentina, Peru, Barbados, Australia, Morocco, virtually all of Europe and many other countries.

They are the Bridge correspondents for the Express Newspapers with a weekly column on line.

Their gruelling schedule continues with tournaments in Bonn, San Remo, Deauville, Sao Paulo, Cuba and San Diego all scheduled for the coming months.

Silver Medal Winners at Beijing Mind Sports October 2008
Justin (front left) and Jason (front right)

Latest news: April 2009:

Paul and Tom Hanlon finished third in the Yokohama Imp pairs.

Justin and Paul with team mates David Gold and Tom Townsend finished second in the round robin of the Yeh Bros Cup and were beaten by the eventual winners, The Netherlands, in the KO stage.

Jason and Justin with Janet de Botton and Nick Sandqvist won the North Wales Teams.

Dan Crofts, Edward Levy, Mike Goldsmith, Barbara, Paul and Justin won the Staffs and Shropshire League.

Dan Crofts, Gary Hyett and Paul retained the team’s title in the Shrewsbury Congress with Barbara as this year’s fourth player.

Suzy is getting married in Suffolk in June.

The family attended a civic reception at Manchester Town Hall where Jason, Justin and Michael Byrne were honoured for their results in Beijing last year.