Tom Hargreaves

Tom Hargreaves octochamp statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	2
Points total	850
Conundrums solved	5

Tom Hargreaves in his debut game...

…and in the 30th Birthday Championship.

Tom Hargreaves at COLIN 2005.

Tom Hargreaves was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 47, a semi-finalist in Championship of Champions XI, and a participant in the 30th Birthday Championship.

On-screen

Series 47

At sixteen years of age, he was one of the youngest octochamps in the show's history and the first ever one under the 15-round format.

He kicked off the first eight heat games of the series with an octotal of 850 — 106.25 points per game.

Finals

In his quarter-final, he faced Mike Pullin who held him to a crucial conundrum with mainly thanks to HUNKIEST but it was Tom that solved SIDSDIMES first.

In his semi-final, he faced Kevin Thurlow. Hargreaves beat Thurlow as he scored maximums in every round but two, although he couldn't solve the conundrum.

In the grand final against Chris Wills, it turned out not to be a classic as Hargreaves missed a number of words and was not able to beat Chris on the conundrum. Wills went on to win the series with 110 points.

Championship of Champions XI

Hargreaves returned in January 2003 for Championship of Champions XI.

He beat John Rainsden and Ben Wilson to qualify for his semi-final against Graham Nash.

Hargreaves looked off-par against Nash with three disallowed words, including RESCALING when Nash had CLEARINGS. This ended Hargreaves' run as he finished with twelve wins out of fourteen, his two defeats were against two series champions: Chris Wills and Graham Nash.

30th Birthday Championship

Hargreaves returned in 2013, as one of 41 contestants that took part in the 30th Birthday Championship.

He won his first match against Nicki Sellars by 117 – 57, before losing to David O'Donnell by 111 – 86.

Off-screen

His own record of his experience on the show can be read on The Countdown Page here.

Co-events

Hargreaves appeared at the first Countdown tournament, COLIN 2005.

Preceded by Steve Sandalls

Series runner-up Series 47

Followed by Grace Page

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
3153	26/12/2001	P	Terance Carey	67 – 110	Tom Hargreaves	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Geoffrey Durham	Clare Pemberton	132
3154	27/12/2001	P	Tom Hargreaves	111 – 73	Terry McHugh	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Geoffrey Durham	Clare Pemberton	123
3155	28/12/2001	P	Tom Hargreaves	110 – 64	Alan Wright	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Geoffrey Durham	Clare Pemberton	120
3156	31/12/2001	P	Tom Hargreaves	106 – 83	Lindy Moffat	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Joan Bakewell	Richard Samson	134
3157	1/01/2002	P	Tom Hargreaves	103 – 92	Elfie Winterton	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Joan Bakewell	Richard Samson	121
3158	2/01/2002	P	Tom Hargreaves	101 – 44	Terry Thomas	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Joan Bakewell	Richard Samson	123
3159	3/01/2002	P	Tom Hargreaves	111 – 82	Carol Merchant	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Joan Bakewell	Richard Samson	142
3160	4/01/2002	P	Tom Hargreaves	98 – 50	Janet Bernstein	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Joan Bakewell	Richard Samson	120
3274	21/06/2002	QF	Mike Pullin	89 – 106	Tom Hargreaves	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Geoffrey Durham	Susie Dent	118
3278	27/06/2002	SF	Kevin Thurlow	93 – 109	Tom Hargreaves	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Digance	Damian Eadie	122
3279	28/06/2002	GF	Tom Hargreaves	67 – 110	Chris Wills	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Digance	Damian Eadie	129
3395	13/01/2003	CP	John Rainsden	65 – 117	Tom Hargreaves	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Susie Dent	132
3400	20/01/2003	CQF	Tom Hargreaves	131 – 98	Ben Wilson	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Eric Knowles	Susie Dent	144
3403	23/01/2003	CSF	Tom Hargreaves	83 – 104	Graham Nash	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Eric Knowles	Susie Dent	132
5615	7/01/2013	30BP	Tom Hargreaves	117 – 57	Nicki Sellars	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dave Myers	Susie Dent	131
5635	4/02/2013	30B1	David O'Donnell	111 – 86	Tom Hargreaves	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Kate Adie	Susie Dent	128

External Links

• Archive version of Tom's Countdown website.