Terje Aa (born 16 March 1961) is a Norwegian

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player, WBF World Life Master, and regular member of the Norwegian team since 1993. Teams on which he was a member have placed in the top three of the

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European and World Championships 11 times between 1984 and 2008. In 1993, Aa debuted as the member of Norwegian national selection and won the Schiphol Invitational Teams in

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and bronze medal in European Teams Championship in Menton, France. In the same year, they reached the final of Bermuda Bowl in

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, where they lost to the young Dutch team. Aa works for the Norwegian Post Office. His regular partner between 1993 and 2006 was

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 ...

playing the "Viking

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", a relay-based system.

Reporting false scores - suspension

Aa was a member of

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 ...

's team which reported a false score (claiming a match was played when it was not to the benefit of both teams) in a match in Norway. All players involved were suspended by the Norwegian Bridge Federation. Three of the players involved, Terje Aa (ACBL # 9027661), Geir Helgemo (ACBL # 4036808) and Jørgen Molberg (ACBL # 8896631) were members of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and were suspended by the ACBL.ACBL Board of Directors, Minutes of Meeting in San Diego CA, 2009.
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