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Tom Hargreaves

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Tom Hargreaves at COLIN 2005.

Tom Hargreaves was an octochamp and runner up in Series 47. At 16 years old, he was one of the youngest Octochamps in the game's history, and the first one under the 15 round format. He ran off the first eight heat games of the series with a then record score of 850 — 106.25 points per game. It included a crucial conundrum 103 – 92 against Elfie Winterton. Unfortunately Elfie needed to write the conundrums down before she could solve them, and Tom got it in just a few seconds, before she had written it down. In the quarter-final he faced Mike Pullin who held him to a crucial conundrum, mainly thanks to the word HUNKIEST, but it was Tom that solved SIDSDIMES first. In the semi-final he faced Kevin Thurlow and Tom beat Kevin as Tom scored maximums in every round but two, although he couldn't solve the conundrum OUTERSUNS he was in the final with a score over 100.

There he faced #1 seed Chris Wills and the final turned out not to be a classic as Tom missed a numbers of words and was not able to beat Chris on the conundrum. Wills took the game with a score of 110. Tom was invited back a year later to take part in the Championship of Champions XI where he beat John Rainsden and the unbeaten Ben Wilson to qualify for the semi-finals against Graham Nash. Tom looked off-par against Graham with three disallowed words, including RESCALING when Graham had the only valid 9, CLEARINGS. This ended Tom's run as he finished with 12 wins out of 14, his only two defeats were against two Series champions, Chris Wills and Graham Nash. His own record of his experience on the show can be read on The Countdown Page here.

Tom also 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 Geoffrey Durham Clare Pemberton
3154 27/12/2001 P Tom Hargreaves 111 – 73 Terry McHugh Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Geoffrey Durham Clare Pemberton
3155 28/12/2001 P Tom Hargreaves 110 – 64 Alan Wright Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Geoffrey Durham Clare Pemberton
3156 31/12/2001 P Tom Hargreaves 106 – 83 Lindy Moffat Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Joan Bakewell Richard Samson
3157 1/01/2002 P Tom Hargreaves 103 – 92 Elfie Winterton Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Joan Bakewell Richard Samson
3158 2/01/2002 P Tom Hargreaves 101 – 44 Terry Thomas Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Joan Bakewell Richard Samson
3159 3/01/2002 P Tom Hargreaves 111 – 82 Carol Merchant Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Joan Bakewell Richard Samson
3160 4/01/2002 P Tom Hargreaves 98 – 50 Janet Bernstein Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Joan Bakewell Richard Samson
3274 21/06/2002 QF Mike Pullin 89 – 106 Tom Hargreaves Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Geoffrey Durham Susie Dent
3278 27/06/2002 SF Kevin Thurlow 93 – 109 Tom Hargreaves Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Damian Eadie
3279 28/06/2002 GF Tom Hargreaves 67 – 110 Chris Wills Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Damian Eadie
3395 13/01/2003 CP John Rainsden 65 – 117 Tom Hargreaves Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Tim Rice Susie Dent
3400 20/01/2003 CQF Tom Hargreaves 131 – 98 Ben Wilson Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Eric Knowles Susie Dent
3403 23/01/2003 CSF Tom Hargreaves 83 – 104 Graham Nash Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Eric Knowles Susie Dent

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