Pierre Jaïs and Roger Trézel of France won both of the inaugural Olympiads; thus, as 1956 Bermuda Bowl champions, they achieved the triple crown on the earliest possible occasion.
In 2006, as defending champions in the quadrennial World Open Pairs Championship, a win would have secured "Fantunes" a consecutive triple crown.
[a] ^ Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes were later found cheating, and are currently barred from play by multiple bridge associations.
Austria was a double winner and one of its women players, Rixi Scharfstein, completed a unique triple crown in the 1960s.
Markus and her regular partner Fritzi Gordon were on the 1976 Great Britain team that finished second for the Venice Cup when it was contested for the second time.