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Joel Wapnick

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Joel Wapnick is a Scrabble player from Montreal, Quebec, best known for winning the 1999 World Scrabble Championship. He also won the United States National Scrabble Championship in 1983 and the Canadian National Scrabble Championship in 1998 and 2011, and reached the World Scrabble Championship finals in 1993 and 2001. He is one of only two players, along with Adam Logan, to have won the World Scrabble Championship, the United States National Scrabble Championship and the Canadian National Scrabble Championship. He is a professor emeritus of music at McGill University.

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Birth Year
1946 1
Nationality
Canadian 1
Career Highlight
Won the 1999 World Scrabble Championship (WSC); also won the US National Scrabble Championship in 1983 and the Canadian National Scrabble Championship in 1998 and 2011, and reached the WSC finals in 1993 and 2001. 1
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Competition Category
Individual 1
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1. Wikipedia, Joel Wapnick
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  • Wikipedia article on Joel Wapnick, lead sentence, birth year
    Joel Wapnick (born 1946) is a Scrabble player from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, best known for winning the 1999 World Scrabble Championship (WSC).
  • Wikipedia article on Joel Wapnick, lead sentence, nationality
    Joel Wapnick (born 1946) is a Scrabble player from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, best known for winning the 1999 World Scrabble Championship (WSC).
  • Wikipedia article on Joel Wapnick, lead section, career summary
    Wapnick reached the WSC finals in 1993 and 2001. Wapnick also won the US National Scrabble Championship in 1983 and the Canadian National Scrabble Championship in 1998 and 2011, along with a string of other events.
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    Joel Wapnick (born 1946) is a Scrabble player from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, best known for winning the 1999 World Scrabble Championship (WSC).
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