Elisabeth Persson

Elisabeth Persson
Full name	Maria Elisabeth Persson
birthday	February 21, 1964
place of birth	Umeå
Career
nation	Sweden
society	Umeå CK
Playing position	Lead
Playing hand	right
status	unknown
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 4 × 0 × 2 × EM medals 4 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1998 Nagano World Curling Championship gold 1992 Garmisch-Partenkirchen bronze 1993 Geneva bronze 1994 Oberstdorf gold 1995 Brandon gold 1998 Kamloops gold 1999 Saint John European Curling Championship gold 1992 Perth gold 1993 Leukerbad bronze 1995 Grindelwald silver 1996 Copenhagen gold 1997 Füssen gold 2000 Oberstdorf
last change: March 2, 2010

Maria Elisabeth Persson (born February 21, 1964 in Umeå ) is a Swedish curler .

Persson played as lead in 1992, 1993, 1995 to 1997, 2000 and 2006 at a total of seven European Curling Championships . She won the gold medal in 1992, 1993, 1997 and 2000, the silver medal in 1996 and the bronze medal in 1995.

At the World Curling Championships Persson played from 1992 to 1995 and from 1998 to 2000 as a lead for the Swedish team. She won the gold medal in 1992, 1995, 1998 and 1999 and the bronze medal in 1993 and 1994.

In 1998 Persson took part in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. The team won the bronze medal after a score of 10: 6 against Great Britain in the game for third place. Persson also took part as lead at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Here the team took sixth place.

Web links

• Elisabeth Persson on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Elisabeth Persson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )