Glenn Frode Grøtheim (born 2 September 1959) is a

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player, WBF World Grand Master, winner of the 2007

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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

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. 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

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, finishing third. In 1993, Norway again won the bronze medal in the European Teams Championship in

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, France. Later the same year they reached the final of Bermuda Bowl in

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, 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

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, ending up third by beating the

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for the bronze. The same team earned the European silver medal in the

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in 2001 ending behind Italy, and later lost the Bermuda Bowl final in

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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 Geir Helgemo (born 14 February 1970) is a professional bridge player who was born in Norway but is now a citizen of Monaco. Through 2012 he had won three world championships in competition. As of August 2018 he ranked first among Open World Gra ...

, 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

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-based relay system, about which he has written a book; the English edition, with

Alan Sontag Alan M. Sontag (born May 2, 1946) is an American professional bridge player. He won six world championships, including two Bermuda Bowl wins. Sontag is also known for his book ''The Bridge Bum'', a book "on everybody's list of the top ten bridge bo ...

, is titled "The Viking Precision Club - A Relay System for the 21st Century".

References

NEC Bridge Festival 2002 bulletin
issue 7, 3 February 2002

External links

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Viking Club system
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