Im super stoked we got a bronze medal in mixed doubles and it looks like were gonna play 11 games in this tournament as well. Currently, Team Edin's record as the only non-Canadian team to win three Slams at the Grand Slam of Curling still stands. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The team lost in the semifinal by one point to Team Switzerland, the first time since 2013 that Team Sweden did not reach the medal podium. The advantage that they have is they know year in and year out that theyre playing the world championship and theyre playing in the Olympics. Edin, a two-time Olympic medallist, led his team to two victories on a busy final day of the Championships which saw five matches take place after the tournament was suspended late on Friday night due to positive coronavirus tests within the bio-secure bubble in Calgary. They also successfully defended their title at the Oslo Cup and repeated their Elite Series title win. In December, the team also reached their tenth final at a Grand Slam of Curling event when they reached the final of the Boost National, losing to Team Brad Jacobs. Later that same year, the team won the gold medal at the 2009 European Curling Championships, their first appearance at the championship. The first came at the 2012 European Curling Championships where they beat Team Ulsrud in the final. Sweden beat Switzerland 6-1 whilst Norway recorded an entertaining 10-4 victory against Australia in the seventh mixed doubles curling session at the National Aquatics Centre. It was a bitter upset they did not forget. Han competed at the World Juniors 2019 as fourth player where she landed a fourth-place finish. After a last minute cancellation of the 2020 womens championship in Prince George, Canada, then a postponement of the 2021 edition which was originally slated for Schaffhausen, Switzerland in March, the womens teams are finally taking to the ice for the LGT World Womens Curling Championship 2021 in the Calgary bubble. Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler from rnskldsvik, Sweden. 2016 Please try again. Despite the challenge of returning without a competitive national championship, the team finished at the top of the leaderboard and was ranked first in the playoffs, defeating Team Mouat of Scotland in the final and winning the fourth gold medal for Edin and Eriksson and the third straight World Championship gold for the team - the first team to achieve this feat and to do so with the same four players. . The arrival of Mira reminded Hasselborg of the many women who have given birth whilst curling that have come before her and succeeded in coming back to the sport. The teams back end will be supported by skip Marie Turmann and her sister, Liisa Turmann. In both 2018 and 2019 the Danish team finished their round-robin campaigns with a 3-9 record for an 11th place finish. The 201314 season was not as successful for the Edin rink. He is also the only skip in history to have skipped a team to three Olympic medals a gold (2022), a silver (2018), and a bronze (2014) and the only skip to secure back-to-back Olympic and World Men's Curling Championship in history. The mens semifinals are slated for Thursday and the medal games for Friday and Saturday, meaning Eriksson could compete on 16 days in the Olympics. 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The Olympic silver medallists from the PyeongChang Olympics are making their return to the international stage for the first time since their fifth-place world finish in 2018. Niklas Edin leads Sweden to third straight World Men's Curling title Sweden and Team Niklas Edin win third straight men's world title Edin becomes first skip to win five men's world championships, while Sweden is only second country to win three consecutive titles 3 min By ZK Goh Updated on 21 November 2022 00:46 GMT-8 Curling Team Tirinzoni claimed the bronze medals after defeating Alina Kovaleva at the Europeans in 2019. [14] In December 2009, the team won the gold medal at the 2009 European Curling Championships, their first appearance at the championship. A post shared by Niklas Edin (@niklasedin). [25] At the end of the season, Lindstrm was forced to take a break from curling, requiring a shoulder operation and needing recovery.[26]. [42], In the 2020-21 season, the Swedish Curling Association launched a substantial effort to support five teams on the mixed doubles tour in order to prepare for the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and to secure an entry for Team Sweden to compete in mixed doubles at the 2022 Olympics. Despite being back-to-back Canadian champions, this rink has yet to compete on the world stage due to last years championship cancellation. Edin also played in all four legs of the inaugural Curling World Cup, losing in the finals of the second and third legs. BEIJING Theres a mystique about Niklas Edin, the kind of aura that comes with winning five world mens curling championships, including the last three. 2012 In 2008, Edin also skipped yet another team to the bronze medal at the 2008 European Mixed Curling Championships, with Anna Hasselborg playing third. [32] Edin also played in all four legs of the inaugural Curling World Cup, losing in the finals of the second and third legs. The Dupont sisters are returning to world championship ice for their 12th appearances. As Edin's junior career came to an end, he quickly became one of the top skips in Sweden on the senior tour, backed by his teammates Sebastian Kraupp, Fredrik Lindberg, and Viktor Kjll. Anna, Sara, Agnes & Sofia This is Team Sweden - This is Team Hasselborg MORE INFO @teamhasselborg For exclusive content, behind the scenes and competitions Follow us featured News News We are the 2022 Olympic Games bronze medal winners! The 201213 season became Edin's best season up until that point in time. They then reached the bronze medal position at the Swiss Cup Basel, and made the playoffs at the 2019 Tour Challenge before losing to Team Brad Gushue in the quarters. 2009 The team lived up to expectations by winning the silver World Championship medal. Their biggest success came by peaking when it counted in the international championships, taking two important gold medals in the same season. At the 2021 European Curling Championships, the team won a silver medal, extending Team Edin's legacy of winning gold or silver at every championship since 2011 but one (2013). Later that same season, Team Edin became the first non-Canadian team to win the Tour Challenge and the Player's Championship. Edin also currently holds several records with his teammates Eriksson, Sundgren, and Wran, who formed the team that won four gold medals between 2018 and 2022. [16] On the World Curling Tour, the team also started strongly by winning the Oslo Cup and making the finals of the Baden Masters. He also skipped the Swedish men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where he won a silver medal, losing to the United States (skipped by John Shuster) in the gold medal game. In the 2009-2010 season, Team Edin was considered the frontrunner for Sweden's national team. Edin, third Oskar Eriksson, second Rasmus Wrana and lead Critsoffer Sundgren are essentially the Swedish national team and they are well-funded in their pursuit of world curling . Or perhaps not . The victory meant that Edin and Eriksson held the gold medals at the European and World Championships for the second time in a single curling season. Not many couples get to celebrate an occasion like that at the Olympics. Sweden did not let Canada generate . In 2006, Edin won a second silver medal at the World Junior Curling Championships, this time playing third for Team Carlsn. The Chinese team is led by the youngest skip in the field, 20-year-old Han Yu. This years field qualified through a unique qualification process that was put in place due to the cancellation of the 2020 edition of the championship. At 36, he had pressed on through a history of injuries to pursue another trip to the Games, another chance for gold. As a result, Team Edin also became the only non-Canadian team currently to have won more than one Slam. This team won their National Championship in 2019, which has given them their ticket to represent the United States in Calgary. Sweden face Team Canada in the men's curling semifinal on Thursday 17 February (20:05 local time, 13:05 CET, 7:05 Toronto time) as they seek their second medal of Beijing 2022.. I guess it puts a lot of extra pressure on you, because you dont get too many chances at these, he said in an interview in January. John Shusters team from the United States beat Switzerlands Peter de Cruz 7-4 on Tuesday morning to improve to 4-3. After a fierce performance by the men's Swedish curling team, Team USA concedes in the 10th end. Tara and Tabitha Peterson are one of two sibling duos for USA Curling at the Olympics. 2019 Swedens gold medal came after near misses at the past two Olympics. Mikkel Krause has been given the nod to lead the men's rink that . Updated: February 4, 2022 Published: February 4, 2022 United States' Christopher Plys, and Victoria Persinger, sweep the ice, during the mixed doubles curling match against Sweden, at the 2022. [17] The team ended their season by becoming the first non-Canadian team to make it to a men's Grand Slam final at the 2011 Players' Championship, losing in the final to Team Kevin Martin. Eriksson has now curled on 14 consecutive days and will have his first day off on Wednesday. The lead must be very good at throwing guards and a . The men's curling team won its last five games, capping off their improbable run with a 10-7 upset victory over Sweden at the Gangneung Curling Centre on Saturday. "When I made [the double take-out], it was just pure happiness," Edin said to World Curling. They then reached the bronze medal position at the Swiss Cup Basel,[33] and made the playoffs at the 2019 Tour Challenge before losing to Team Brad Gushue in the quarters. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. 2023 National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. He is not dating anyone. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. They also hold the record as the first men's curlers to simultaneously hold both the World Curling Championship and European Curling Championships in three separate curling seasons (2012-2013, 20142015, and 2017-2018). Sweden's Almida de Val and Oskar Eriksson added a mixed doubles medal to their country's bulging Olympic curling trophy cabinet after clinching bronze with a 9-3 dismantling of Britain at the . The team then began the Canadian leg of their autumn schedule by winning the Penticton Curling Classic. Over that same time, Canada was represented by seven different teams. From a tailored suit to hair wax to keep his coif in place, Don't miss this deal on Microsoft Office's full suite of applications and tools, Best Buy, Fable and DAVIDsTEA, to name a few. Official Curling results from the Beijing 2022 Olympics. Now the eyes of the country are upon Edin, and the Swedish womens team, skipped by 2018 Olympic gold medallist Anna Hasselborg, and expectations are high. The World Championship win also gave Edin and Eriksson their sixth World Championship team gold medals the first curlers in the world to do so and gave Sundgren his fifth World Championship gold, placing him currently second on the all-time World Championship team gold medal list. Part of the Olympic program since 1998, curling is played out between two teams of four that slide 16 stones down a 30-metre stretch of ice. Einarson stole two points in the fifth end . Apr 8, 2022. In Turin 2006, they were ousted in round robin play in both women's and men's events as the host team. Together, they filled the void in Swedish men's curling left by the retirement of Peja Lindholm. See full results. In the bronze medal match, Switzerland (Peter de Cruz) playing their third game of the day having beaten the USA 76 in a play-off at 11 am local time before losing 113 to Edin's Sweden at 4 pm defeated Sergey Glukhov's Russian Curling Federation team 65 with a last-stone draw to the button. 4 : Eve MUIRHEAD (Skip) 3 : Victoria WRIGHT (Vice-Skip) 2 : Jennifer DODDS 1 : Lauren GRAY A : Sophie SINCLAIR Sweden Anna Hasselborg at the LGT World Women's Curling Championship 2019 WCF / Richard Gray Four years ago, the Swedish mens curling team watched as a team of Americans exulted in winning their countrys first curling gold. Edin and company leave the 2022 Games as Sweden's first Olympic gold medalists in men's curling, and Edin and Eriksson's three medals now makes them the most decorated curling Olympians of. 2018 I love that were in control of our own destiny. That same season, Team Sweden, led by Mattias Mabergs, finished in 8th place at the 2008 European Curling Championships and fell short in two of three tight games against Finland in the relegation challenge for the 2009 World Men's Curling Championship. Its more special than a world championship that you get to play every year, hopefully. He is a two-time medal winner in the Olympics, winning a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the bronze medal the 2014 Winter Olympics. 1:07. At the end of the season, Sebastian Kraupp and Fredrik Lindberg announced that they were taking indeterminate breaks from curling and the team effectively disbanded. Niklas Edin participated in as many as ten different sports simultaneously before he took up curling. [27][28] Later that same season, Team Edin became the first non-Canadian team to win the Tour Challenge and the Player's Championship. [35], Team Edin began the 202021 season by winning the 2020 Baden Masters, Edin's third title in the event, tying the record held by Thomas Ulsrud, Andreas Schwaller, and Brad Gushue. Sweden's Oskar Eriksson and Sweden's Almida de Val (L) celebrate after the mixed doubles bronze medal game of the 2022 Winter Olympics curling competition between Sweden and Britain, at the. The U.S., still had games against Italy (Tuesday night) and Denmark (Thursday morning), two teams with a combined record of 2-11 so far in the tournament. The team bearing his name has been ranked on the World Curling Tour as high as No. Theres a mystique about Niklas Edin, the kind of aura that comes with winning five world mens curling championships, including the last three. In February 2020, Team Edin won the Swedish Men's Curling Championships and thus cemented their right to compete for their third straight World Men's Championship title. Now, after adding the gold he has chased for more than a decade, he has a complete set. We felt that we played good enough and that were worthy champions but it still felt completely insane and when it actually happens it is hard to understand.. 2016 brought their best Worlds performance with a fourth-place finish. Swedens win was particularly gratifying for Edin, one of the best curlers in the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/sports/olympics/swedish-curling-gold.html. While the team lost three round-robin games, they rallied in the playoffs defeating Finland, Canada and then their Norwegian rivals once again to pick up the championship. When. His team also finished the season in first place on the Tour in terms of order-of-merit points and money won, becoming the first time a non-Canadian team won the Pinty's Cup. Fuessen, host to the World Junior Curling Championships 2023 this week, has a population of around 15,000 and boasts one of Germany's most successful ice hockey clubs. The fact that he has never won an Olympic gold medal is somewhat shocking and it will surprise no one if he wins it this time around. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information and details on how to adjust your email settings. He competed in mixed doubles a competition that began two days before the Olympic Opening Ceremony with Almida de Val, and wound up winning a bronze medal. The Sweden women's national curling team represents the Sweden in the international curling competitions. Four years ago, the Swedish men's curling team watched as a team of Americans exulted in winning their country's first curling gold. Updated at 6:45 a.m. 2008 Youre not gonna get away from the added pressure because youve waited so long for this event to happen. Kevin Tuma, Marius Kleinas and Coleman Thurston, members of Team Sampson, were given a sendoff party at the Chaska Curling Center Feb. 16 before leaving for the World Junior Curling Championships . In 2009 Edin was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. As defending European champions, the Edin rink picked up their second straight gold medal when they won the 2015 European Curling Championships, this time defeating Switzerland's Peter de Cruz in the final. Edin also currently holds several records together with his teammate Oskar Eriksson. John Shuster of the United . The final score was 5-4, a victory sealed by steady play by Sweden and one final bold attempt by Britain that just missed its mark. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. Anna Kubeskova will skip the Czechs in her fifth world championship appearance. That the gold came after a close match, Edin said, seemed in keeping with the Olympic tournament. When Edin won the 2016 WFG Masters, he became the first non-Canadian skip to win a men's Grand Slam event. <3 The Swiss, skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni, won their Nationals against Team Stern in February to qualify their spot at the world championship. The team bearing his name has been ranked on the World Curling Tour as high as No. Edin, third Oskar Eriksson, second Rasmus Wrana and lead Critsoffer Sundgren are essentially the Swedish national team and they are well-funded in their pursuit of world curling dominance. The Swedes lost the top medal to the United States four years ago. 2007 Edin is also the only curler to appear in the Continental Cup for twelve consecutive competitions (200708 and 20112020, with the competition not held in 2009 or 2010). For this championship only, the original 13-team field has been expanded to 14 to include the Italians, who met qualification criteria for 2020, but not 2021. [23] The 201415 season indeed became a golden year for the new Team Edin, as the team first won the gold medal at the 2014 European Curling Championships. Jul 1, 2022 NEWS | Oestersund to host the Le Gruyre AOP European Curling Championships 2022 Read all about it wcf.co/3ODULmE #curling #ECC2022 [13] In the international curling championships, they first won a silver medal at the 2011 European Curling Championships after losing in the final to Norway's Thomas Ulsrud. Swedish skip Niklas Edin and teammate Oskar Erikkson were playing in their fourth Olympics, while all GBR players were playing in their first. You can sense reverence among the curlers for a Swedish team that has a way of coming up with the biggest performances on the biggest stages. In 2015, Hasselborg's current team of Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, and Sofia Mabergs came together. At the 2010 European Curling Championships, the team was unable to secure a playoff spot but made up for this by winning a bronze medal at the 2011 World Men's Curling Championship. Edin skipped Team Sweden to a perfect 110 record to win the European Championship, defeating Norway's Team Ulsrud in the final game, giving Edin his third European Championship gold. "The outpouring of support is the. Un Jardin a Cythere is inspired by the Greek island of Kythira. In 2009 Edin was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Watch Game News So much fun ending the season with the Team Hasselborg family! Everyone, every day, has some curling to watch, so it makes it very special and we have a good opportunity to show what we can do. Sweden wins first Olympic men's curling gold The only achievement Swedish skip Niklas Edin was missing on his curling resume was an Olympic gold medal, and he got it with a 5-4, 11-end win over Great Britain for Sweden's first Olympic men's curling championship. 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However, the playing rules were changed to require masks on ice during play during Sunday's games. We have enabled email notificationsyou will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. After dropping their previous two contests, Americans Vicky Persinger and Chris Plys bounced back with a thrilling 8-7 victory. During 201617 curling season, Rasmus Wran became Team Edin's new second and the final member to join the current Team Edin. Switzerland and Great Britain seem to have a slight advantage heading into Friday's women's team curling semifinals at Beijing 2022. Article content. Its a different experience for us, the Canadian teams.. The team wrapped up the season by coming in second place in the finals of the 2022 Players' Championship and reaching the semifinals of the 2022 Champions Cup. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. Were not taking anybody lightly though, but to finish with two more wins here would be fantastic.. Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. In the 201718 curling season, Team Edin had one of their most successful seasons, winning the gold medal at the European Curling Championships, the silver medal for the men's team at 2018 Winter Olympics (losing to the United States team skipped by John Shuster),[30] and then avenged their loss at the 2017 Worlds by defeating Team Gushue in the finals of the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship, giving Edin his third World Championship gold medal.