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Zia Mahmood was born on 7 January, 1946 in Pakistan, is a Pakistani-American bridge player. Discover Zia Mahmood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?
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Zia Mahmood Height, Weight & Measurements
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Zia Mahmood Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Zia Mahmood worth at the age of 78 years old? Zia Mahmood’s income source is mostly from being a successful player. He is from Pakistan. We have estimated Zia Mahmood's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Mir Zia Mahmood (born 7 January 1946) is a Pakistani-American professional bridge player.
He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master.
Mahmood achieved international bridge fame, almost overnight, during one fortnight in 1981 when he led Pakistan to a second-place finish in the Bermuda Bowl tournament.
The Bermuda Bowl is the most important open world championship, and that was the first participation by anyone from the World Bridge Federation geographic zone "Asia and the Middle East".
It also tied Taiwan for the best finish by anyone from outside Europe and the United States.
Five years later, Zia led a short-handed team from Pakistan to second place in the 1986 Rosenblum Cup tournament, which is the open world championship in even-number non-Olympic years.
That remains tied for best finish by anyone from outside Europe and the United States.
The event is transnational, but none of the nine winning teams has included a single player from outside Europe and the United States.
Zia Mahmood is the author of Bridge My Way, an autobiography, and has hosted many TV shows.
It is now the second best finish from outside Europe and the United States, after Brazil won the tournament in 1989.
Zia won the ACBL's 3-day Life Master Pairs championship in 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2023 with four different partners.
He has also been a 6-time runner-up.
Mahmood is married to Lady Emma, his wife since February 2001.
They have two sons: Zain and Rafi.
Zain is also a bridge player
Although he won the quadrennial Mixed Teams in 2004 with Sabine Auken and a French pair.
He still considers himself Pakistani, however: "I am proud and happy to be representing America, but my Pakistani identity is in no way submerged. I feel like a Pakistani who is living in America and playing for America."
To prove his point, Zia and his American teammates once played their opening match in Pakistani dress.
Mahmood spends much of his time in Great Britain and the United States and is very much part of the London bridge scene.
Mariusz Puczyński is a Polish bridge player whose greatest achievement has been to win the Bronze Medal in the 2004 European Bridge Championship.
His teammates on that occasion included Cezary Balicki and Adam Żmudziński, for many years known as Poland's strongest pair and as one of the strongest pairs in the world.
The ACBL Hall of Fame inducted Zia in 2007.
According to the citation sometime that year, he was a London resident.
Zia has represented the United States in world competition, and thus he won his first major world championship, the 2009 Bermuda Bowl.
It contained the Gold Medal which Zia had won at the 2009 Bermuda Bowl.
As of April 2011 he was the 10th-ranked World Grand Master.
Zia was born in Karachi, British India, now Pakistan.
Zia was educated in England from the age of six to twenty-one.
He qualified as a Chartered Accountant of the Institute of England and Wales and spent three years running a family business in Pakistan.
He also spent eighteen months in Abu Dhabi developing business interests.
Beginning 2012/2013, Nickell has replaced Hamman and Zia with Bobby Levin–Steve Weinstein.
He wrote a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper until January 2012, when the paper stopped covering bridge.
During the 2015 bridge cheating scandals, Puczyński satisfied himself that his former teammates had not been playing honestly, and returned his medal to the European Bridge League because he no longer wanted it.
In early 2019, Puczyński had by chance the opportunity to partner Zia in a tournament in Poland.
Someone told Zia about Puczyński's gesture, and he warmly complimented him for it.
On 15 May 2019, Puczyński received a package through the post as a present.