Maria Poulsen

Maria Poulsen
birthday	29th October 1984 (age 35)
place of birth	Hvidovre
Career
nation	Denmark
Playing position	Lead
Playing hand	right
status	unknown
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 0 × 2 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM-B medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
European Curling Championships bronze 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen bronze 2007 Fuessen Junior World Curling Championships bronze 2006 Jeonju Curling Junior World Championship-B silver 2001 Tårnby bronze 2002 Hügelsheim gold 2004 Tårnby
last change: July 29, 2018

Maria Poulsen (born October 29, 1984 in Hvidovre municipality ) is a Danish curler .

Career

Poulsen started her international career at the Junior B World Championship in 2001 as a lead in Madeleine Dupont's team . She qualified for the 2001 World Junior Championships and finished ninth there. Her greatest success in the junior division was winning the bronze medal at the 2006 World Cup .

For the adults, she played for the first time at the 2003 World Cup as a substitute. She achieved her best placement at the 2011 World Championships with a fourth place as lead in the team led by Lene Nielsen . At the European Championships , she won the bronze medal in 2005 and 2007 .

Poulsen was part of the Danish Olympic curling team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She played in the position of alternate alongside her teammates Skip Dorthe Holm , Third Denise Dupont , Second Lene Nielsen and Lead Malene Krause . The team took eighth place together with the US team.

Her second Olympic participation followed in 2014 as the lead of the Danish team. Together with Skip Lene Nielsen, Third Helle Simonsen , Second Jeanne Ellegaard and Alternate Mette de Neergaard , she came in sixth after four wins and five losses.

Web links

• Maria Poulsen on Worldcurling.org (English)