Oona Kauste

Oona Kauste
birthday	4th January 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Espoo, Finland
Career
nation	Finland
society	Aland CC
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × MEM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European Curling Championships bronze 2015 Esbjerg  Mixed European Curling Championships bronze 2012 Erzurum
last change: January 18, 2018

Oona Kauste (born January 4, 1988 in Espoo ) is a Finnish curler .

Career

Kauste began her international career at the European Junior Challenge 2006, the qualifying competition for the Junior World Championship . As a substitute for the Finnish junior women's team, she won the silver medal, but thus missed qualifying for the 2006 Junior World Cup . She played her first European Championship in 2009, again as a substitute; the Finns came in eighth place.

In 2012 she won the bronze medal as lead at the mixed European championships with the team skipped by her brother Aku Kauste .

In 2015 she played at the World Cup for the first time and came in second in the Finnish team in eleventh place. At the European Championships in 2015 she won the bronze medal as the skip of the Finnish women's team and stood on the podium for the first time at her sixth European Championships; in the game for 3rd place she defeated the Danes around Lene Nielsen .

The 2016 World Cup , where she also played as Skip, she finished in eleventh place again. In the same year she joined Tomi Rantamäki at the Mixed Doubles World Championship and was seventh. She took the same place at the Mixed Doubles World Championship 2017 , where she played with Rantamäki again.

Oona Kauste played together with Tomi Rantamäki for Finland in the first mixed doubles competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games . After one win and six defeats in the Round Robin , the Finnish team came in eighth and last place. After the positive doping results from Alexander Kruschelnizki and the disqualification of the Olympic Athletes from Russia team , they moved up to seventh place.

Web links

• Oona Kauste on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Profile on Finnish Curling Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic Winter Games 2018 - Teams. In: worldcurling.org. World Curling Federation, accessed January 18, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Final Standings - Mixed Doubles. In: olympic.org. World Curling Federation, accessed February 23, 2018 .