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Australian Memory Championships
2011 Australian National Open Memory
Championships was held on 10-11 September in Melbourne.
Participants from all over the world participated in a small but
well contested event.
Those who attend a
National Championship can be eligible to participate in the 2011 World Memory
Championships
www.worldmemorychampionships.com which will be held in
Guangzhou China
6-11 December 2011.
For information on the
2012 Australian Memory Championships please
email
jennifer@buzan.com.au. Jennifer is Convenor of the
Australian competition and Senior Arbiter at the World Memory
Championships. If you would like to talk to Jennifer about the
competitions email her anytime.
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Report from 2010 World Memory
Championships
Twenty year old Wang Feng, the reigning Chinese Memory Champion,
stormed to victory at the 19th World Memory Championships in
Guangzhou, China, winning the Gold Medal and smashing previous
championship records in a hot contest against rivals from Germany
and the UK.
There were 128 finalists from over twenty countries competing for
the title. Wang, a history student from Wuhan University, clinched
the title in the final discipline of ten, when he correctly
memorised a shuffled pack of 52 playing cards in just 24 seconds.
Wang is the first Chinese citizen to win the World Memory
Championships, widely considered a symbolic breakthrough for Memory
Sport in China.
Wang's final result establishes him firmly as the planet's top
memory man and his performance will be enshrined in the Book of
Mental World Records. His closest rivals were the German Champion
Johannes Mallow from Magdeburg, in Silver position, with defending
titlist, Ben Pridmore of Beeston, UK winning the Bronze.
Pridmore's single most impressive exploit in Guangzhou was his
record breaking memorisation of 28 shuffled packs of playing cards
within a one hour limit. Simon Reinhard of Munich was fourth
overall.
In the team competition, Germany took the Gold Medal, ahead of
China in Silver with the UK capturing Bronze.
The 2011 World Memory Championships will be held in Guangzhou,
China 6-11
December, go to
http://worldmemorychampionship.com/ for more details.
Watch this 19 minute video of
2007 World Memory Championships in Bahrain. Includes
interviews with Tony Buzan. People from across the globe came to compete for the ultimate prize.
Report from the 2009 World Memory
Championships
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BEN PRIDMORE
retained the title of World Memory Champion at the conclusion
of the 18th World Memory Championships in London.
After three days of intense competition, the 18th World
Memory Championship had a nail biting finish on Saturday
14th of November, which could not have been closer.
However,
reigning Champion Ben Pridmore from the UK, emerged
victorious, making this his third World Memory Champion
title.
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Over the ten
disciplines, which took place over the three days of the
competition, Ben's cumulative Championship points were
7,854. Runner up was Johannes Mallow from Germany with 7,321
Championships points followed, in third place by fellow
German Simon Reinhard with 7,137.
Despite achieving a higher score than last year, previous
World Memory Champion Dr Gunther Karsten had to settle for
forth place with 6,958 - only 28 points less than what it
took him to win the Championships in 2007 - a sure sign of
the increasing achievements of top competitors year by year.
CONGRATULATIONS to Junior Memory Champion Dorothea Seitz and
also to the Kids Memory Champion Song Xiatong.
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Full information can be found at
www.worldmemorychampsionships.com
Perhaps you can join us in 2012!
The New Memory
Arbiters Handbook
Filament Publishing, who published the Memory Yearbook for the Mind
Sport of Memory, have published a pocket handbook for Arbiters
and Competition Organisers. It costs £7.50
Can be purchased from the WMSC.
An insight into the
Ten Memory Disciplines Jennifer Goddard, President of the
Australian Memory Sports Council and the only Level Three arbiter in
the world, has produced
an
excellent series of ten streamed video to explain the The Memory
Disciplines.
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