Mikkel Poulsen

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Mikkel Poulsen Curling

Mikkel Poulsen (2014)
birthday 17th October 1984 (age 35)
place of birth Hvidovre
Career
nation DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Playing position Alternate
Playing hand right
status inactive
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
World Curling ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 2016 Basel
European Curling ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze 2007 Fuessen
silver 2010 Champéry
bronze 2011 Moscow
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

Individual evidence

  1. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldcurling.org
  2. Danmarks bedste hold curling stopper. In: tv2.dk. March 19, 2018, accessed July 29, 2018 (Danish).