Oliver Axnick

Oliver Axnick
birthday	17th May 1970
place of birth	Fuessen ,  Germany
Career
nation	Germany
society	CC Fuessen
Playing hand	right
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 3 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World Curling Championship bronze 1994 Oberstdorf bronze 1995 Brandon silver 1997 Bern bronze 2005 Victoria European Curling Championship gold 1992 Perth gold 1997 Füssen

Oliver Axnick (born May 17, 1970 in Füssen ) is a former German curling player . He is two-time European champion and seven-time German champion.

Career

Axnick began curling at the age of 16. Since 1992 he has been part of Andreas Kapp's team at the Füssen Curling Club , with whom he rose to become one of the most successful German curling players.

He celebrated his first title in 1992 at the European Championships in Perth, Scotland . He was able to repeat this success in 1997 in the championships in Füssen. Axnick achieved three third places at world championships (1994, 1995, 2005) and was runner-up in 1997 in Bern . Axnick took part in the Winter Olympics in 2006 and 1998 , but could not qualify for the semifinals.

At the national level, Axnick secured a total of seven German championship titles with the Curling Club Füssen: 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005.

After Axnick retired from active curling in 2006, he supported German curling as a national coach from 2007 to 2010. In 2007 at the World Championships in Edmonton he was still vice-world champion as assistant coach for the Kapp team and coached the two German teams at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . At the end of June 2010 he ended his coaching contract for professional reasons.

Web links

• Oliver Axnick on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Oliver Axnick in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official website