Lene Nielsen

	Lene Nielsen
	; Lene Nielsen (2013)
birthday	August 31, 1986
place of birth	Hvidovre
Career
nation	Denmark
Playing position	Second
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
European Curling Championship
Junior World Curling Championships
Curling Junior World Championship-B
	last change: November 5, 2017

Lene Nielsen (born August 31, 1986 in Hvidovre ) is a Danish curler .

Nielsen was part of the Danish Olympic curling team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She played on the position of second next to her teammates Skip Dorthe Holm , Third Denise Dupont , Lead Malene Krause and Alternate Maria Poulsen . The team took eighth place together with the US team. With the same team she won the bronze medal in the 2005 European Championship . In 2006 she took over her own team as Skip and was third in the 2006 Junior World Championship . At the European Championships in 2007 she led the Danish team as Skip and again won the bronze medal. At the 2010 European Championships she was fifth.

In 2010 Nielsen qualified with a fifth place at the European Championships for the 2011 World Cup in Esbjerg and reached the game for third place, which she lost to the Chinese team of Wang Bingyu . She and her team finished fourth at the European Championships in 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 and 2015 , and fifth at the European Championships in 2016 . She finished eighth at the 2012 , 2013 , 2015 and 2016 World Championships . At her last World Cup in 2017 , she and her team (third: Madeleine Dupont , second: Stephanie Risdal , lead: Charlotte Clemmensen , substitute: Denise Dupont ) only finished twelfth and last.

In 2014 she took part again in the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and finished sixth with the team she led (third: Helle Simonsen , second: Jeanne Ellegaard , lead: Maria Poulsen , replacement: Mette Neergaard ).

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