Christoffer Svae | |
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Born | 21 March 1982 |
Curling career | |
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) |
Medal record |
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]
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]
Svae is currently employed as a curling instructor and event manager [11] at AS Curlingbaner. [12]
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Events |
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1998–99 | Thomas Berntsen | Thomas Løvold | Jan Øivind Hewitt | Petter Moe | Christoffer Svae | 1999 World Junior Curling Challenge (Gold), 1999 WJCC |
2000–01 | Thomas Løvold | Petter Moe | Fredrik Haaland | Christoffer Svae | Sindre Eirik Martinsen | 2001 WJCCB |
2001–02 | Thomas Løvold | Petter Moe | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Christopher Berntsen | 2002 WJCCB (Gold) |
Thomas Løvold | Petter Moe | Christoffer Svae | Fredrik Haaland | Christopher Berntsen | 2002 WJCC | |
2002–03 | Thomas Løvold | Petter Moe | Christoffer Svae | Håvard 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 Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Thomas Due | Jan Thoresen | Christoffer Svae | 2006 Baden Masters (Bronze) |
2007–08 | Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | 2007 Baden Masters, 2007 Lucerne Curling Trophy (Champion) | |
Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Thomas Due | 2007 ECC (Silver), 2008 WCC (Bronze) | |
2008–09 | Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | 2008 Baden Masters (Champion), 2008 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup (Champion) | |
Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Thomas Due | 2008 ECC (Silver) | |
Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Thomas Løvold | 2009 WCC (Bronze) | |
2009–10 | Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Thomas 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 Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Markus Snove Hoiberg (ECC) | 2010 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup (Silver), 2010 ECC (Gold) |
2011–12 | Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Markus Høiberg | 2011 ECC, 2012 WCC |
2012–13 | Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Thomas Løvold Markus Høiberg | 2012 ECC, 2013 WCC |
2013–14 | Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Markus Høiberg | 2013 ECC, 2014 OG, 2014 WCC |
2014–15 | Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson |
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