Mikkel Poulsen
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Mikkel Poulsen (2014) |
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birthday | 17th October 1984 (age 35) | ||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Hvidovre | ||||||||||||||||||
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nation | Denmark | ||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Alternate | ||||||||||||||||||
Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||
status | inactive | ||||||||||||||||||
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last change: December 26, 2017 |
Mikkel Adrup Poulsen (born October 17, 1984 in Hvidovre ) is a Danish curler .
Poulsen's greatest success so far was winning the silver medal at the 2016 World Championships. Second , he moved into the final with Skip Rasmus Stjerne's Danish team after a semi-final victory against the Americans with Skip John Shuster . The game against the Canadian team around Kevin Koe was lost 3: 5.
The Curling Championships he won in 2010 as a second- team Rasmus Stjerne the silver medal. In 2007 and 2011 he won the bronze medal, in 2012 and 2013 he was fourth.
As an alternate , Poulsen played at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in Team Denmark with Skip Ulrik Schmidt , Third Johnny Frederiksen , Second Bo Jensen and Lead Lars Vilandt . The team finished ninth. At the 2014 Winter Olympics he played second , this time with Rasmus Stjerne as Skip. The team came in sixth place. In December 2017 he secured Denmark as second in the team of Stjerne ( Skip ), Johnny Frederiksen ( Third ), Oliver Dupont ( Lead ) and Morten Berg Thomsen ( Alternate ) by beating the Czech team in the final at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Pilsen, one of the last two Starting places for the Olympic Winter Games 2018 in Pyeongchang . There he came with the Danish team after two wins and seven defeats in the round robin in tenth and last place.
In March 2018, he and his teammates announced their temporary retirement from the sport of curling.
Web links
- Mikkel Poulsen on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Mikkel Poulsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Denmark men are final curling team into 2018 Olympic Winter Games. (No longer available online.) In: 2017 Olympic Qualification Event. World Curling Federation, December 10, 2017, archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; accessed on December 26, 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.
- ↑ Danmarks bedste hold curling stopper. In: tv2.dk. March 19, 2018, accessed July 29, 2018 (Danish).
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SURNAME | Poulsen, Mikkel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Poulsen, Mikkel Adrup (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish curler |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hvidovre |