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{{Short description|Norwegian bridge player (born 1961)}}
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| birth_date                = {{Birth date and age|1961|03|16|df=y}}
| birth_place               = [[Trondheim]], Norway
| nationality               = Norwegian
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'''Terje Aa''' (born 16 March 1961) is a Norwegian [[contract bridge|bridge]] 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 [[World Bridge Federation]] 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 [[Netherlands]] and 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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Truscott |first1=Alan |title=Bridge |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/11/nyregion/bridge-331193.html |access-date=July 15, 2021 |work=[[New York Times]] |date=September 11, 1993}}</ref>
Aa works for the Norwegian Post Office. His regular partner between 1993 and 2006 was [[Glenn Grøtheim]] playing the "Viking [[Precision Club|Precision]]", a [[relay bid|relay-based system]].<ref>{{cite book  |last1 = Grøtheim  |first1 = Glenn  |author-link1 = Glenn Grøtheim  |last2 = Sontag  |first2 = Alan  |author-link2 = Alan Sontag   |title = The Viking Precision Club - A Relay System for the 21st Century  |publisher = Devyn Press, Inc  |location = Louisville, KY  |year = 2000  |isbn = 0-939460-27-0}}</ref>
==Reporting false scores - suspension==
Aa was a member of [[Geir Helgemo]]'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.<ref>[http://web2.acbl.org/documentLibrary/about/0902-exhibits/2009_2_Washington_board_minutes.pdf ACBL Board of Directors, Minutes of Meeting in Washington DC, 2009.]</ref><ref>[http://web2.acbl.org/documentLibrary/about/0903-exhibits/2009_3_San_Diego_board_minutes.pdf ACBL Board of Directors, Minutes of Meeting in San Diego CA, 2009.]</ref>
==References==
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== External links ==
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* {{WBF}}
* {{EBL|4860}}
* [http://bridgefiles.net/VAR2/Systems/SYS-PrecisionViking.htm Viking Club system]
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[[Category:Norwegian contract bridge players]]
[[Category:Bermuda Bowl players]]
[[Category:1961 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Trondheim]]
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