Boye Brogeland

Boye Brogeland (born 1973) is a Norwegian bridge player. After a successful junior career, he won three Bermuda Bowl medals with the Norwegian team, including the gold in Shanghai 2007, and several North American Bridge Championships. He came into public focus in 2015 when he led a campaign against cheating in bridge, exposing wrongdoing of several top pairs, for which he received public recognition.

Brogeland was born in 1973 in Moi, a small town 100 km south of Stavanger in southern Norway. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father is a butcher. He learned to play bridge from his grandparents at the age of 8, and started playing regularly in the local club when he was 12. His mother committed suicide when Boye was eleven, and the tragedy had a "decisive influence on his character", as he put it. He graduated economics from the Norwegian School of Economics.

At the age of 19, Brogeland turned fully to bridge and achieved a successful career as a junior, winning World Junior Pairs Championships in Ghent in 1995. In the same competition two years later, in Sportilia, Italy, he took a bronze medal with his partner Trond Hantveit. Playing for Norway junior team, in 1996 he won Junior European Teams in Cardiff, and in 1997 finished second to Denmark in the 6th World Youth Championship in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada.

With Norwegian Open team and Erik Sælensminde as the partner, Brogeland took the bronze medal in the 1997 Bermuda Bowl in Hammamet, followed by silver in Paris 2001 and culminating with the gold in Shanghai 2007.

In 2001, Brogeland turned fully professional and participates regularly in North American Bridge Championships. He has won two pairs events and two team events, the most important being Spingold in 2014, a title he would eventually relinquish.

Brogeland holds the titles of Norwegian Grand Master, European Grand Master and World Grand Master.

Boye lives with his wife Tonje Aasand Brogeland, a schoolteacher and a fellow bridge player, in Flekkefjord in southwest Norway. They have two children. He runs a bridge magazine Bridge in Norway (Bridge i Norge). In 2011 co-authored the book Bridge at the Edge on his bridge achievements with David Bird.

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