Poland wins Bemuda Bowl amidst dramatic swing in fortunes

Poland sprung back from despair to post a 307.5-293 win over Sweden and register its maiden triumph in the Bermuda Bowl open event of the HCL-42nd World Bridge Team Championship here today.
It was a top draw stuff out and out as Poland, leading 236.5-190 at the end of three rounds of 16 boards each overnight, was seemingly sitting pretty but Sweden did not take long to prove how fickle a lead can be particularly in the final of a world championship.
In the very first of the two rounds, planned as a final phase of the title-round, sheer brilliance of Sweden's play melted away as the Polish broke the back of Sweden's pairs of Upmark and Nystrom (N-S) in the open room and Sylvan and Wrang (E-W) in the closed section. This helped the Poles to gain a series of five double digit swings in IMPs.

Even before Poland (Gawry's and Klukowski sitting E-W in open and Kalita and Nowasadski in N-S in closed)could open, Sweden had gone to 17. Then came the dramatic surge and Sweden enlarged the lead to finish the game with a whopping 70-6 IMPs to wrest the overall lead (260-242.5).
The bronze medal for this event went to USA 2 which beat England 252.3-243.
The winner in the Transnational team event was Zimmermann, which beat Bulgaria Open 125-91 and third-placed team was YBM, which beat Askgaard 65-48.