Glenn Grøtheim

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Glenn Grøtheim (born 1959) is Norwegian bridge player, WBF World Life Master, and regular member of the Norwegian team since 1993.

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. In 1993, he debuted as the member of Norwegian open team and won the Schiphol Invitational Teams in Netherlands and then bronze medal in European Teams Championship in Menton, France. In 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 in the Tenerife in 2001 ending behind Italy. He has been a Norwegian champion in several occasions.

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. Since 1993, his regular partner is Terje Aa, while he played with Ulf Tundal and Geir Helgemo before that. He and Aa play the "Viking Precision", a relay-based system.