Tero Kalliolevo

Medal record
Quizzing
Competitor for Finland
World Championships
Bronze 2008 Singles
Bronze 2011 Singles
European Championships
Silver 2007 Blackpool Pairs
Bronze 2008 Oslo Team
Bronze 2008 Oslo Club
Silver 2009 Dordrecht Club
Silver 2010 Derby Singles
Silver 2010 Derby Pairs
Bronze 2010 Derby Team
Gold 2011 Bruges Team
Bronze 2011 Bruges Club
Nordic Quiz Championships
Gold 2008 Tallinn Singles
Gold 2008 Tallinn Pairs
Gold 2008 Tallinn Team
Gold 2010 Turku Singles
Gold 2010 Turku Pairs
Gold 2010 Turku Team

Tero Kalliolevo (born 1977) from Finland is the Nordic countries' most successful quiz player in international competitions.

In 2007 he won his first European Quizzing Championships medal in the pair competition with compatriot Jussi Suvanto behind Belgians Erik Derycke/Tom Trogh.[1]

In 2008 he won a singles medal at the World Quizzing Championships even edging out superstar Kevin Ashman.[2] Only Mark Bytheway and Ronny Swiggers were better.

At the European Quizzing Championships 2008 in Norway he finished in 5th place (singles), even with Suvanto. Together they came in 4th in the doubles competition. With the club JFGI (Tero Kalliolevo, Jussi Suvanto, Estonians Ove Poder and Tauno Vahter) he edged out Ashman's Milhous Warriors for Bronze.[3]

In 2009 he finished 7th at the World Quizzing Championships behind the British and Belgian world stars (Ashman, Bytheway, Swiggers, Olav Bjortomt, Nico Pattyn, Pat Gibson).[4] At the Euros 2009 he also finished 7th at singles[5] behind the same players save Ian Bayley instead of Bytheway, again 4th at doubles and second with the club.

References

  1. ^ See "EC" http://www.iqa.be/
  2. ^ International Quizzing Association, results WQC 2008, http://www.qmania.de/wqc-2008-ergebnisse.php
  3. ^ Report by norgesquiz http://www.norgesquizforbund.no/eqc2008index.php?location=Results
  4. ^ International Quizzing Association, results WQC 2009, http://www.qmania.de/wqc-2009-ergebnisse.php
  5. ^ EQC results http://www.iqa.be/Result%20EQC%202009%201-40.png