It is always difficult to write about oneself, much easier to let other people do it for you. Here is an updated bio which was originally posted on E-Bridge.
Migry Zur Campanile was born in Bucharest, Romania, in a year that is a closely guarded secret. She is now a bridge professional and teacher living in Tel Aviv with her husband, bridge professional and writer Pietro Campanile. They actually met while playing bridge online. "He was an Italian living in London," says Migry, "but he was desperate to find the right excuse to learn Hebrew, so how could I refuse his invitation to get married?" The third member of the Campanile household is Rikard J. Greenberg . . . "he's a cat with an identity crisis," explains Migry. "He happily runs around retrieving the objects we throw, he opens fridges when he is hungry (we eventually had to fit a child-proof lock) and when he has had enough of us he just jumps on the keys in the door and turns them to open it and go out!"
"An unruly childhood and adolescence was only partially mitigated by an early induction to the family evening bridge marathons, which caused me many late nights and zombie-like mornings," she reveals.
Migry is the top-ranked Israeli women's player and among the top players on the European tournament scene. She is the only Israeli player to have won twice a world championship: in 1998, she won the World Generali Masters in Corsica, and at the 2000 Olympiad in Maastricht, she partnered Piotr Gawrys as a member of “Team E-Bridge”, which won the World Mixed Teams title.
"The Generali victory was a particularly heartwarming one because it was the first-ever world championship win by an Israeli bridge player," says Migry. "The Maastricht victory was also great because of the fun of playing with such great teammates (Sam Lev, Jill Meyers, Piotr Gawrys, Irina Levitina and John Mohan)."
Migry's international career began at the 1984 European Championships in Wiesbaden. Her first notable success was however at the 1991 European Common Market Championships in Athens, where she won a Gold medal in the teams and a Silver medal in the Women's Pairs. Two years later, she again finished second in the pairs at the same event. At the 1995 European Championships in Portugal, she won the Bronze medal in both the team and pairs events, and took the Bronze medal in the teams again in 1997.
Migry has won numerous Israeli National titles including the National Teams championship three times, the National Pairs twice, as well as several Mixed Pairs and Mixed Teams titles.
2004 brought more successes with a second place in the NEC Cup and qualification
to the Venice Cup. In February 2005 Migry went one better and won the
NEC Cup with Michael Barel, Israel and Doron Yadlin, with a convincing
158-130 victory over Balicki-Zmudzinski and Gromov-Dubinin. In July 2005
the same team, with the addition of Kalish-Podgur, won the gold medal,
representing Israel at the 2005 Maccabiah.
In February 2006 Migry and her team succeeded in defending their NEC title,
defeating an impressive selection of teams, including the powerful Italian
Lavazza team with Bocchi-Duboin, the reigning Venice Cup champions from
France and many others on the way to a nail biting final against a vastly
improved Japanese Open team.
In April 2006 Migry won the Ladies Teams at the Spring US Nationals in
Dallas, playing with Pamela Granovetter (the other team members were Judi
Radin, Sylvia Moss, Shawn Quinn and Mildred Breed). Only three months
later the same team won the prestigious Wagar Trophy at the Summer US
Nationals in Chicago, defeating all the opponents they met by a minimum
of 60 IMPs difference!
Migry is the Chief Editor of the Israeli Bridge magazine and collaborates regularly to other established bridge publications, like Bridge Today and IMP.
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