Olav Bjortomt
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| Quiz Olympiad | ||
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2016 Athens | Individual Quiz |
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2016 Athens | Nations Team Quiz |
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2016 Athens | Literature Quiz |
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2016 Athens | Film Quiz |
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2016 Athens | National Specialist Quiz |
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2016 Athens | Pairs |
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2016 Athens | Pentathlon Specialist Quiz |
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2016 Athens | Visual Arts Quiz |
| IQA World Championships | ||
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2003 Birmingham | Singles |
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2015 | Singles |
| IQA European Championships | ||
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2006 Paris | National Team |
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2006 Paris | Club |
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2007 Blackpool | Club |
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2008 Oslo | Singles |
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2008 Oslo | Pairs |
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2008 Oslo | National Team |
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2008 Oslo | Club |
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2009 Dordrecht | Singles |
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2009 Dordrecht | Pairs |
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2009 Dordrecht | National Team |
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2009 Dordrecht | Club |
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2010 Derby | Singles |
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2010 Derby | Pairs |
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2010 Derby | National Team |
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2010 Derby | Club |
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2011 Bruges | Singles |
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2011 Bruges | Pairs |
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2011 Bruges | Club |
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2012 Tartu | Singles |
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2012 Tartu | National Team |
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2013 Liverpool | National Team |
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2013 Liverpool | Pairs |
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2014 Bucharest | Singles |
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2014 Bucharest | Pairs |
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2014 Bucharest | National Team |
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2014 Bucharest | Club |
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2015 Rotterdam | Singles |
| IQA British Championships | ||
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2007 Derby | Singles |
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2007 Derby | Pairs |
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2008 Staveley | Pairs |
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2012 Lichfield | Pairs |
Stein Olav Bjortomt (born 13 December 1978 in Eastbourne) is an England international quiz player, two-time world champion (2003,2015) and three time individual European champion (2010,2014,2015). He is the star player of the world's most successful quizzing club "Broken Hearts" with which he has won several European Championships. As of 2016 he is head writer for the show The Chase. In contrast to the other two full-time professionals of Team England Pat Gibson and Kevin Ashman he hasn't done as well both in domestic competitions with only a second place in the individual British Championships 2007 to his credit (though he has won the pairs competition) and as a TV candidate, a second place in the Fifteen to One series of 2002 being his best result. He is of Norwegian and Filipino descent.
He was the winner of the inaugural 2003 individual World Quizzing Championships, when it was a fledgling event with then only 45 participants (now in the thousands) but won a second title in 2015. In 2009 he won three out of four possible European titles and was runner-up behind Kevin Ashman in the singles to become the most successful participant.
Time Out described him in 2006 as a "former child quiz prodigy and a rising star of the quiz world".
After his triumph at the very first World Quizzing Championship 2003 he has not won a medal at the world stage ever since (but always was Top 10). His absence at Ghent in 2004 (when England won the first European Championship) meant he was not selected for the national team until 2006. He should have played in 2007 but travel problems delayed his arrival at the event. Consequently, he has only latterly become a regular in the star-studded English national team (Ashman, Mark Bytheway and Pat Gibson). He is also part of the Broken Hearts ( with Ian Bayley, formerly David Stainer, replaced by Didier Bruyere and Mark Grant) quiz team which play in the QLL and have been European Club champions from 2007 to 2009. Bjortomt won the Pairs Championships with partner Stainer in 2009 and has won 21 international medals on aggregate (see medal table). He also holds the title "British Quizzing Grandmaster".
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