Niklas Edin

Niklas Edin
birthday	6th July 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Sidensjö
Career
nation	Sweden
society	Karlstad CK
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 2 × EM medals 6 × 1 × 0 × Mixed European Championship medals 0 × 1 × 1 × UNI medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 3 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2014 Sochi silver 2018 Pyeongchang  World Curling Championships bronze 2011 Regina bronze 2012 Basel gold 2013 Victoria gold 2015 Halifax silver 2017 Edmonton gold 2018 Las Vegas  European Curling Championships gold 2009 Aberdeen silver 2011 Moscow gold 2012 Karlstad gold 2014 Champéry gold 2015 Esbjerg gold 2016 Renfrewshire gold 2017 St. Gallen  Mixed European Curling Championships silver 2005 Canillo bronze 2008 Kitzbühel  Winter Universiade gold 2009 Harbin Junior World Curling Championship gold 2004 Trois-Rivières silver 2005 Pinerolo silver 2006 Joenju silver 2007 Eveleth
last change: April 10, 2018

Niklas Edin (born July 6, 1985 in Sidensjö, Örnsköldsvik municipality ) is a Swedish curler .

At the 2009 European Curling Championships in Aberdeen , Edin won the gold medal with his team Third Sebastian Kraupp , Second Fredrik Lindberg , Lead Viktor Kjäll , Alternate Oskar Eriksson . The team finished second in the Round Robin. The page playoff game was won 6-3 against Norway. In the final they beat Switzerland 6: 5.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he was in the small final with his team and played for the bronze medal. This time he lost the game for 3rd place against the Swiss team around Skip Markus Eggler 4: 5. 4 years later, at the 2014 Winter Games , he was able to win bronze by beating Liu Rui's Chinese team for third place .

Edin won his first world championship medal at the 2011 world championships by winning the third place match against the Norwegians for Thomas Ulsrud . The following year there was a new edition of this encounter, which Edin was able to win again. In 2014 , he won his first gold medal with a final win against Brad Jacobs' Canadian team . He was able to repeat this success at the 2015 World Cup ; in the final, he and his team beat Thomas Ulsrud 9: 5. In the 2016 World Cup , however, he was only able to achieve sixth place. In 2017 he was in the final again, this time against Brad Gushue's Canadian team . The game was lost 3: 5. This final pairing was reissued at the 2018 World Cup . This time Edin got the upper hand with a 7-3 win and won the gold medal.

Edin and his team have dominated the European Curling Championships since 2009 . So far he has won six gold medals and one silver medal. In 2017 he became European champion for the fourth time in a row with a final victory against the Scottish team around Kyle Smith .

Edin and his team (third: Oskar Eriksson , second: Rasmus Wranå , lead: Christoffer Sundgren ) represented Sweden at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games . After seven wins and two defeats, they finished the Round Robin first. In the semifinals they defeated Switzerland with Skip Peter de Cruz . In the final they were defeated by the US team led by John Shuster with 7:10 and won the silver medal.

Web links

• Niklas Edin on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Niklas Edin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ From playing Yatzy on tour to the Olympic Winter Games. In: World Curling Federation. August 27, 2017, accessed December 11, 2017 .