Christoffer Svae

Last updated
Christoffer Svae
Christoffer Svae 2010.jpg
Born (1982-03-21) 21 March 1982 (age 42)
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
World Championship
appearances
10 (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
European Championship
appearances
11 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Olympic
appearances
3 (2010, 2014, 2018)

Christoffer Svae (born 21 March 1982) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He is best known as the former second for Team Thomas Ulsrud. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

At Junior level, Svae played second for Team Thomas Løvold and won gold medals at the 2002 and 2003 World Junior Curling Championships "B" tournaments.

Svae formally joined Team Ulsrud in 2007 having played alternate since 2005. During the 2005–2010 seasons, Svae and his team won six World Curling Tour events, three European Curling Championship medals (silver in 2007 and 2008; bronze in 2009), four World Curling Championship medals (bronze in 2006, 2008 and 2009; silver in 2010), and silver at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. [2] [4] [5] [6]

It was Svae who selected Loudmouth Golf's colorful argyle pants (Dixie and Red & Gray) as Team Norway's uniform at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics because they came close to matching the Norwegian flag colors – red, white and blue. The pants brought Team Norway unprecedented popularity as shown by the surge in sales at Loudmouth Golf as well as the number of followers at the Facebook's Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants fan page exceeding over 600,000 by the end of the 2009-10 curling season. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Personal life

Svae is currently employed as a curling instructor and event manager [11] at AS Curlingbaner. [12]

Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateEvents
1998–99 Thomas Berntsen Thomas Løvold Jan Øivind Hewitt Petter Moe Christoffer Svae1999 World Junior Curling Challenge (Gold), 1999 WJCC
2000–01Thomas LøvoldPetter Moe Fredrik Haaland Christoffer Svae Sindre Eirik Martinsen 2001 WJCCB
2001–02Thomas LøvoldPetter MoeChristoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson Christopher Berntsen 2002 WJCCB (Gold)
Thomas LøvoldPetter MoeChristoffer SvaeFredrik HaalandChristopher Berntsen2002 WJCC
2002–03Thomas LøvoldPetter MoeChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad Petersson Bård Rieber-Mohn 2003 WJCCB (Gold)
2005–06 Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Thomas Due Jan Thoresen Christoffer Svae 2006 WCC (Bronze)
2006–07 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdThomas DueJan ThoresenChristoffer Svae2006 Baden Masters (Bronze)
2007–08 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad Petersson2007 Baden Masters, 2007 Lucerne Curling Trophy (Champion)
Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Due 2007 ECC (Silver), 2008 WCC (Bronze)
2008–09 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad Petersson 2008 Baden Masters (Champion), 2008 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup (Champion)
Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Due 2008 ECC (Silver)
Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Løvold 2009 WCC (Bronze)
2009–10 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Løvold (ECC, OG)2009 Baden Masters (Silver), Swiss Cup Basel (Champion), Bern Open (Champion), Lucerne Curling Trophy (Champion), ECC (Bronze), 2010 OG (Silver), WCC (Silver)
2010–11 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad Petersson Markus Snove Hoiberg (ECC)2010 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup (Silver), 2010 ECC (Gold)
2011–12 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonMarkus Høiberg2011 ECC, 2012 WCC
2012–13 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Løvold
Markus Høiberg
2012 ECC, 2013 WCC
2013–14 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonMarkus Høiberg2013 ECC, 2014 OG, 2014 WCC
2014–15 Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad Petersson

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Murdoch</span> Scottish curler (born 1978)

David Matthew Murdoch is a retired Scottish curler from Stirling. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions. Representing Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal. He served as national and Olympic coach for British Curling since September 2018, before being named Curling Canada's high-performance director in early 2023.

Bent Ånund Ramsfjell is a Norwegian curler from Asker. He is the younger brother of Eigil Ramsfjell, multiple curling world champion and bronze medallist at the 1998 Winter Olympics competition in Nagano.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Torger Nergård</span> Norwegian curler (born 1974)

Torger Nergård, also spelled Nergaard is a Norwegian curler from Oslo.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Ulsrud</span> Norwegian curler and Olympic medalist (1971–2022)

Thomas Ulsrud was a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, one World Curling Championship, two European Curling Championships, and fourteen Norwegian titles. He was also known for being the skip of the team that competed while wearing colourful harlequin trousers at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Team Ulsrud's combined showmanship and sportsmanship became iconic and contributed to reviving worldwide interest in curling since then. In 2024, he was posthumousely inducted into the World Curling Hall of Fame.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Niklas Edin</span> Swedish curler from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden

Johan Niklas Edin is a Swedish curler. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF) history to win three Olympic medals – gold (2022), silver (2018), and bronze (2014) – and to skip men's curling teams to seven World Men's Curling Championship medals. He is also a seven-time European Curling Championship titleholder and won three silver medals in those championships. He is currently tied with Oskar Eriksson in first place on the WCF-recognized list of championship medals, with thirty-eight in total. He reached the playoffs in forty-five Grand Slam of Curling events and won the Pinty's Cup with his current teammates, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wranå, and Christopher Sundgren. With the same lineup in 2022, Edin and his teammates also became the first and only men's curling team to win a fourth consecutive World Men's Curling Championship. Edin has played exclusively in the position of skip since 2007. The team bearing his name has been ranked on the World Curling Tour as high as No. 1, including for most of the 2017–18 season. As of the end of the 2021–22 Curling Season, Team Edin was ranked in the top three teams in the world.

Thomas Due is a Norwegian curler.

Jan Thoresen is a Norwegian curler. He currently plays lead for Tormod Andreasen.

The curling competition of the 2010 Olympics was held at Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre in Vancouver. It is the fifth time that curling was on the Olympic program, after having been staged in 1924, 1998, 2002 and 2006. For the 2010 Winter Olympics the competition followed the same format that was used during the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, with 10 teams playing a round robin tournament, from which the top four teams advance to the semi-finals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Håvard Vad Petersson</span> Norwegian curler and Olympic medalist

Håvard Vad Petersson is a Norwegian curler from Arendal who was the long time lead for Team Thomas Ulsrud. He is currently the coach of the Yannick Schwaller rink.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norway at the 2010 Winter Olympics</span> Sporting event delegation

Norway participated at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Norway sent 99 competitors to the games and ended up with the fourth largest number of gold medals among participating nations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Løvold</span> Norwegian curler and Olympic medalist

Thomas Løvold is a Norwegian curler.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sebastian Kraupp</span> Swedish curler (born 1985)

Sebastian Kraupp is a Swedish curler from Karlstad, Sweden. He currently coaches the Swedish men's junior team.

Bengt Fredrik Lindberg is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. Lindberg grew up in Östersund.

Viktor Erik Kjäll is a Swedish curler originally from Karlstad.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norway at the 2010 Winter Paralympics</span> Sporting event delegation

Norway sent a delegation to compete at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A total of 27 Norwegian athletes competed in four disciplines; the only sport Norway did not compete in is alpine skiing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Loudmouth Golf</span> American sportswear company

Loudmouth Golf is an American sportswear company based in Sonoma County, California, known for colorful trousers.

Rasmus Stjerne Hansen is a retired Danish curler. He is a former world junior champion and current Danish champion. He curls out of the Hvidovre Curling Club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norway at the 2014 Winter Olympics</span> Sporting event delegation

Norway competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christoffer Sundgren</span> Swedish curler

Kjell Tommy Christoffer Sundgren is a Swedish curler. He currently plays lead for the Swedish national team, skipped by Niklas Edin. The World Curling Federation's historical records rank Sundgren as one of the most successful curlers of all time, both in the medals that he has received and his lifetime performance in individual championships. He is one of only three curlers in history to have won both the Olympic Gold medal and five World Championship gold medals. In 2022, he surpassed the previous record holders for World Men's Curling Championship medals, winning his fifth gold medal, in addition to his and European Men's Curling Championship, placing him third of all time on both lists behind his teammates Edin and Oskar Eriksson. He also has reached thirty-five playoffs at Grand Slam of Curling events, including winning three Grand Slam tournaments and the Pinty's Cup as part of Team Niklas Edin, the first non-Canadian men's team to do so. In 2017, Sundgren and his teammates also became the first men's team in history to win four consecutive European Men's Curling Championships. In 2021, he and his teammates became the first men's team in history to win four consecutive World Men's Curling Championships.

Steffen Walstad is a Norwegian curler from Oppdal.

References

  1. "About Team Ulsrud". Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine TeamUlsrud.com. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Christoffer Svae" (Teams > Events). Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine ASHAM World Curling Tour. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  3. "Christoffer Svae, Curling" (Curling > Athletes). Archived 2010-04-09 at the Wayback Machine Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  4. "Results/Statistics" (Competitions > European Championships). Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine European Curling Federation. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  5. "Capitol One World Men's Championship – Day 6" (News). Archived 2010-05-14 at the Wayback Machine World Curling Federation. 8 April 2010.
  6. "Men's Gold Medal Game" (Curling Schedule > Results). Archived 2010-04-08 at the Wayback Machine Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. 27 February 2010.
  7. "Loudmouth Golf signs sponsorship deal with the silver medal winning Norwegian curling team". Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine The Golf Wire. 10 March 2010.
  8. The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants Facebook. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  9. Adam Tschom (2010-02-23). "They'll do it Norway: Loud pants earn Facebook fan page shout-out". Los Angeles Times.
  10. Kyrie O'Connor (2010-02-25). "Olympics fashion from good to goofy". Houston Chronicle.
  11. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2015-04-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. 2020 Continental Cup Media Guide: Team Europe Coach Bios