John Landsteiner

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John Landsteiner Curling
birthday May 19, 1990
place of birth Mankato
Career
nation United StatesUnited States United States
society Duluth Curling Club
Playing position Lead
Playing hand right
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2018 Pyeongchang
World Curling ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze 2016 Basel
last change: February 24, 2018

John Landsteiner (born May 19, 1990 in Mankato ) is an American curler . He currently plays as a lead on John Shuster's team .

Career

Landsteiner began his international career at the 2011 Junior World Championship as a substitute for Aaron Ward's team . The team finished sixth.

In 2014 he took part as lead in the US team led by John Shuster at the  Winter Olympics  in  Sochi  , where he finished ninth.

At his first  World Cup in 2015  , he played as a  lead  in Shuster's US team and came in fifth. The  following year he  came in third place with the American team around Shuster. In the game for third place, the Americans defeated Japan with Skip  Yūsuke Morozumi . At the  2017 World Cup  , he returned to the game for third place, but lost to the Swiss team around  Peter de Cruz .

At the US Championships, he won the gold medal in 2015 and 2017, the silver medal in 2016 and the bronze medal in 2013 and 2012.

Landsteiner won the American Olympic Team Trials  with John Shuster's team in November 2017  and took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics  in  Pyeongchang for the USA with Shuster,  Tyler George  (third) and Matt Hamilton (second)  . After five wins and four defeats in the round robin , the Americans moved into the final round. In the semifinals they defeated Canada with Skip Kevin Koe . In the final they beat Sweden with Skip Niklas Edin 10: 7 and won the gold medal.

Private life

Landsteiner is married and works as a project engineer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c John Landsteiner - Biography. In: Team USA. Retrieved December 28, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Team Shuster wins Men's National Championship! (No longer available online.) In: USA Curling Nationals. February 18, 2017, archived from the original on December 28, 2017 ; accessed on December 27, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usacurlingnationals2017.com
  3. ^ Shuster rink heading to South Korea. In: Team USA. November 18, 2017, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ 2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship Media Guide - Team USA
personal data
SURNAME Landsteiner, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American curler
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1990