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Place of Birth: Kvål, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
About Glenn Grøtheim
- Glenn Frode Grøtheim (born 2 September 1959) is a Norwegian bridge player, WBF World Grand Master, winner of the 2007 Bermuda Bowl and a regular member of the Norwegian team since 1987. In 1980, at the age of just 21, he won a gold medal with the Norwegian team at the European Junior Teams in Tel Aviv.
- Two third-place finishes in 1982 and 1984 followed.
- In 1987, partnering Ulf Tundal, he debuted as a member of Norwegian open team in the European Teams Championship in Brighton, finishing third.
- In 1993, Norway again won the bronze medal in the European Teams Championship in Menton, France.
- Later the same year they reached the final of Bermuda Bowl in Santiago de Chile, where they lost to the young Dutch team.
- In 1997, they again won the European bronze medal, and lost to France in the Bermuda Bowl semifinals, held in Tunis, ending up third by beating the United States for the bronze.
- The same team earned the European silver medal in the Tenerife in 2001 ending behind Italy, and later lost the Bermuda Bowl final in Paris to the United States.
- Another European bronze medal followed in 2002.
- In 2007 the team won the Bermuda Bowl, by beating the United States in the final. He has been a Norwegian champion 16 times, and was ranked fifth on the Norwegian master point ranking in 2006.
- After playing with Ulf Tundal and Geir Helgemo, he gained most of his successes with Terje Aa from 1993 to 2006 before rejoining Tundal. He is also a frequent contributor to Scandinavian bridge magazines.
- He lives just outside Trondheim, Norway, with his wife and two sons where he is an electrical engineer. He and his partners have regularly employed a Precision-based relay system, about which he has written a book; the English edition, with Alan Sontag, is titled "The Viking Precision Club - A Relay System for the 21st Century".
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