The Fr. Joseph Hahn and Arthur Kong Award for Best Defense
Sponsored by Rita Shugart (USA)
| Year |
|
Winners |
| 2002 |
|
Tony Forrester (England) |
The okBridge Award for a Junior
| Year |
|
Winners |
| 2002 |
|
Mikhail Krasnosselski (Russia) |
The Levendaal Award for Best Play by a Junior
| Year |
|
Winners |
| 1997 |
|
Morten Lund Madsen (Denmark) |
Sportsman of the Year - Also known as Sporting Award
This award is known as the John E. Simon Award. This award has been suspended and is temporarily inactive. Mr. John E. Simon, of St. Louis, Missouri, was born in 1897 and died in 1993. He was named an ACBL Honorary Member and was Life Master #641. He donated this award for presenting the best sportsmanship at the bridge table.
| Year |
|
Person Awarded |
| 1973 |
|
Omar Sharif, France |
| 1974 |
|
Alan Sontag, USA |
| 1975 |
|
George Rosenkranz, Mexico |
| 1976 |
|
Lord Glenkinglas, Sir timothy Kitson, Rt Hon. Jarold Lever MP, Great Britain |
| 1977 |
|
Maurits Caransa, Netherlands |
| 1978 |
|
No Award was presented |
| 1979 |
|
Steve Landen, USA |
| 1985 |
|
Irving Litvack and Joey Silver, Canada |
| 1997 |
|
Lynn Deas - Source: Bulletin 3, Fall NABC. Presented by Henry Francis. |
Best Defended Hand of the Year- The ITES Best Defended Hand of the Year
| Year |
|
Winners |
| 2005 |
|
Donna Compton, IBPA Bulletin No 486. Page 14 |
The Alan Truscott Memorial Award for Special Achievement
2005: 37th World Team Championships, Bulletin 13, Friday, November 4, 2005, Page 4, IBPA ANNUAL AWARDS 2005
IBPA has announced a new award this year, to be awarded periodically to a person who has made a significant contribution to bridge and bridge journalists.
| Year |
|
Winners |
| 2005 |
|
Bill Bailey, USA |
The IBPA Honour Member of the Year
| Year |
|
Honour Member of the Year |
| 2005 |
|
George Rosenkranz, Mexico |
The Digital Fountain Hand of the Year
Sponsored by Digital Fountain. The Chief Executive Officer and President is Mr. Cliff Meltzer, the husband of Rose Meltzer, who in Paris, 2001, became the first woman to win the Bermuda Bowl.
| Year |
|
Person Awarded |
|
Journalist Reporting |
| 2002 |
|
Sebastian Kristensen (Denmark) |
|
Otto Charles Pedersen (Denmark) |