Sabine Auken ( Zenkel, born 4 January 1965) is a German bridge player. She has also played as Sabine Zenkel. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 24th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 4th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-08.
She was born in Bamberg, Bavaria. As of 2007 she resides in Charlottenlund, Denmark. She and Jens Auken, a Danish bridge player, have two children, Jens Christian (b. 1995) and Maximilian (b. 1999). Maximillian has had success playing basketball, making the U14, U15 and U16 Danish national teams.
At national level she plays for BC München in the 1. German Bridge-Bundesliga.BC München She, along with Roy Welland and the BC München won the 2017 Team-Bundesliga.Winner Team-Bundesliga 2017
Zenkel and the American professional player Ron Andersen traveled the world as a partnership during 1991–1992, based in Chicago. They also wrote a book, Preempts from A to Z (1993; 2nd, 1996).
Books
Preempts from A to Z, Ron Andersen and Sabine Zenkel (Stamford, CT: Magnus Books, 1993), 290 pp., I Love This Game, Auken and Mark Horton, editor (Master Point Press, 2006), 207 pp.,
Bridge accomplishments
Awards EBL Bronze Medal (1) 2010 EBL Hall of Fame (1) 2018
Wins
Venice Cup (2) 1995, 2001 World Team Championship Winners IOC Grand Prix Women Teams (1) 1999 World Bridge Series (1) Mixed Teams (1) 2014 World Bridge Games (1) Open Pairs (1) 2016 World Transnational Mixed Team Championships (1) 2004 Buffett Cup (1) 2008 European Team Championships (3) Women Teams (1) 1989 Women Pairs (3) 1995, 1997, 2001 European Mixed Championships (3) Mixed Teams (1) 2000 Mixed Pairs (1) 1996 Mixed Pairs (1) 1994 European Open Bridge Championships (1) Open Pairs (1) 2013 North American Bridge Championships (14) Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (2) 1989, 1993 Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2014 Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (2) 1990, 2011 Vanderbilt (1) 2013 Spingold (1) 2016 Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 2005, 2007, 2011 Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 2005, 2009, 2010 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2009
Other notable wins Lisbon Masters Invitational 2019 Moscow Invitational Slava Cup 2010, 2016 South American Bridge Championships 2016 German Open Team Championships 2011, 2019 German Bundesliga Pair Championships 2018 German Bundesliga Team Championships 2017 1st Women Pairs Common Market Championships 1985 Bordeaux
Runners-up
Venice Cup (3) 1993, 2005, 2007 World Mixed Pairs (1) 1994 Open World Women Team Championships 1998 World Women Pairs (2) 1998, 2016 Buffett Cup (2) 2006, 2010 European Women Team Championships (3) 1991, 1995, 2002 European Mixed Team Championships (1) 1996 European Mixed Pairs Championships 2017 European Winter Games Board-a-Match 2020 North American Bridge Championships Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1993 Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 2005 Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1992 Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2002 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1994 Reisinger (1) 2012
References
External links
Women Stars at the World Bridge Federation – with biography
Sabine Auken at LC Authorities (no records yet; see WorldCat)