Oskar Eriksson

Oskar Eriksson
birthday	29th May 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Karlstad
Career
nation	Sweden
society	Karlstad CK
Playing position	Third
Playing hand	Left
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 2 × 2 × EM medals 6 × 1 × 0 × Mixed Doubles World Cup 1 × 0 × 0 × UNI medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2014 Sochi silver 2018 Pyeongchang  World Curling Championships bronze 2011 Regina bronze 2012 Basel gold 2013 Victoria silver 2014 Beijing 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 Curling Mixed Doubles World Championship gold 2019 Stavanger  Winter Universiade gold 2013 Trentino Junior World Curling Championships silver 2008 Östersund gold 2011 Perth
last change: April 10, 2018

Oskar Eriksson (born May 29, 1991 in Karlstad ) is a Swedish curler . He is currently playing third in Niklas Edin's team .

At the 2009 European Curling Championships in Aberdeen , Eriksson was an alternate in the team with Skip Niklas Edin, Third Sebastian Kraupp , Second Fredrik Lindberg , Lead Viktor Kjäll and won the gold medal. The team finished third 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. Four years later, at the  2014 Winter Games  , he won bronze as a substitute for Edin's team by beating Liu Rui's Chinese team for third place   .

At the 2011 and 2012 World Championships , he won the bronze medal as a substitute in Team Edin, and the gold medal in 2013 in the same position. Eriksson was the skip of the Swedish team at the 2014 World Cup and won the silver medal after losing to the Norwegians led by Thomas Ulsrud . The following year he played third in Niklas Edin's team and won the gold medal; in the final the team defeated Thomas Ulsrud 9: 5. At the  2017 World Cup  , he was again in the final with Edin, 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 Eriksson and the Swedish team retained the upper hand with a 7-3 victory and won the gold medal.

Eriksson was a substitute for the Swedish team at the European Championships between 2009 and 2013, winning the gold medal in 2009 and 2012 and the silver medal in 2011. Since 2014 he has been playing third in Niklas Edin's team in this competition and has won the gold medal four times in a row.

Eriksson and his team (Skip: Niklas Edin, 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.

At the Mixed Doubles World Championship 2019 in Stavanger he took part with his mixed doubles partner Anna Hasselborg and won gold. In the final they defeated the Canadian team 6-5. In the entire tournament they had only one loss, in the group stage against Canada.

Web links

• Oskar Eriksson on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ From playing Yatzy on tour to the Olympic Winter Games. In: World Curling Federation. August 27, 2017, accessed December 11, 2017 . 
2. ↑ World Curling Federation: World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2019 - Sweden win World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2019. Accessed on May 5, 2019 .