Achievements

• On nationwide basis, Claudio Nunes won the junior category title team. He won 7 titles in the national open teams and 8 times the Open Cup Italy.
• At international level in 1992 and 1988, Nunes won the gold medal to the European Juniors in Paris and the silver ones in Plovdiv.
• World Young (2002), the Champions Cup (2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007) were won by Nunes.
• In 2005, Nunes won World Championship Team and the Olympics of 2004 and 2008,
• The European Open in 2004 and 2006, the Transnational in 2007 and Nunes has also taken silver in the Bermuda Bowl in 2003 and bronze in the Young Open to the World Championship in Verona.
• Nunes was one of 10 players in the world that you could boast of so-called "Triple Crown" (World Team, Team Olympics, World Young).
• He won the title of World Grand Master, and in 2007 standing in second place overall in the ranking of players stronger than the time published by the WBF.

Major Achievement:

Only ten players have achieved The Triple Crown of Contract Bridge that is won by gaining victory in the three most important tournaments in bridge. This includes the Bermuda Bowl, the World Team Olympiad and the World Open Pairs Championship. Few of the major winners are:

Name	Bermuda Bowl	Olympiad	World Pairs
Pierre Jaïs	1956	1960	1962
Bob Hamman	1970	1988	1974
Jeff Meckstroth	1981	1988	1986
Marcelo Branco	1989	1976	1978
Fulvio Fantoni	2005	2004	2002
Claudio Nunes	2005	2004	2002

As the Bermuda Bowl is held in the odd-numbered years, on the other hand World Team Olympiad and the World Open Pairs Championship swap in following even-numbered years. Theoretically it is possible to win the three Triple Crown events in a time span of not more than three years. So far, no bridge player has accomplished this deed. Closest came Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes who won the three events in a time span of four years. As defending champions they ended third in the 2006 World Open Pairs Championship, this was the closest any partnership ever got in defending their title in this event.