{"id":4294,"date":"2017-06-24T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/?page_id=4294"},"modified":"2017-06-24T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T11:37:58","slug":"paul-chemla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/people\/distinctions\/hall-of-fame\/paul-chemla\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Chemla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PaulChemla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"203\" \/>Born in 1944 in Tunis, Paul was a brilliant student, emerging from his studies with accolades of \u201dancient \u00e9l\u00e8ve de l\u2019Ecole normale sup\u00e9rieure lettres\u201d (superior student) and \u201cAgr\u00e9g\u00e9 de grammaire\u201d (Professor of Grammar).<\/p>\n<p>A member of the French Open Team since 1972, Paul has three Gold Medals from Open World Championships, three from European Open Teams and three from European Mixed Teams Championships, and a World Transnational Mixed Team event, in addition to many silver and bronze medals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4290\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4290 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PaulChemla2-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PaulChemla2-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PaulChemla2.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Chemla playing with Omar Sharif<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paul won the European Open Pairs on three separate occasions, with three different partners, so it\u2019s no surprise that he also won the World Individual Championship in 1998.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/person?qryid=1127\">Paul Chemla&#8217;s Playing Records<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1944 in Tunis, Paul was a brilliant student, emerging from his studies with accolades of \u201dancient \u00e9l\u00e8ve de l\u2019Ecole normale sup\u00e9rieure lettres\u201d (superior student) and \u201cAgr\u00e9g\u00e9 de grammaire\u201d (Professor of Grammar). A member of the French Open Team since 1972, Paul has three Gold Medals from Open World Championships, three from European Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":1885,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4294","page","type-page","status-publish"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4294\/revisions\/4299"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}