Kasper Wiksten

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Kasper Wiksten
Curler
Born (1980-06-09) 9 June 1980 (age 44)
Hvidovre, Denmark
Team
Curling clubEsbjerg Curling Klub, Esbjerg,
Hvidovre CC,
Hvidovre, DEN [1]
Skip Tobias Thune
Third Kasper Wiksten
Second Oliver Rosenkrands Søe
Lead Daniel Poulsen
Alternate Mikkel Krause
Mixed doubles
partner		 Natalie Wiksten
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
World Championship
appearances		2 (2021, 2022)
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances		1 (2017)
European Championship
appearances		3 (2018, 2019, 2021
Olympic
appearances		1 (2022)
Other appearances World Junior Championships: 4 (1996, 1998, 2000)

Kasper Wiksten (born 9 June 1980, in Hvidovre Municipality) is a Danish curler. [2]

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At the national level, he is Danish men's champion curler (2020), Danish mixed doubles champion curler (2020) and a four-time Danish junior champion curler (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000). [3]

Teams

Men's

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
1995–96 Johnny Frederiksen Bo Jensen Lars Vilandt Lars Nissen Kasper Wiksten DJCC 1996 Gold medal icon.svg
WJCC 1996 (9th)
1997–98Kasper Wiksten Kenneth Daucke Andersen Tim Kronholm Sune Frederiksen Mikael Lohman Jensen (WJCC)DJCC 1998 Gold medal icon.svg
WJCC 1998 (9th)
1998–99 Casper Bossen Kasper Wiksten Kenneth Daucke Kim Sylvest Sune FrederiksenDJCC 1999 Gold medal icon.svg
1999–00Kasper WikstenCasper BossenKim Sylvest NielsenSune Frederiksen Morten Bærentsen Olle Brudsten (WJCC),
Finn Nielsen (WJCC)		DJCC 2000 Gold medal icon.svg
WJCC 2000 (4th)
2016–17 Ulrik Damm Kasper Wiksten Daniel Abrahamsen Kasper Jørgensen
2017–18Ulrik DammKasper WikstenDaniel AbrahamsenKasper Jørgensen
2018–19 Daniel Poulsen Kasper Wiksten Tobias Engelhard Rasmussen Daniel Munk Buchholt Mads Nørgård Mikael Qvist ECC 2018 (11th)
Ulrik DammKasper WikstenDaniel AbrahamsenKasper Jørgensen Daniel Buchholt Mikael Qvist WQE 2019 (7 место)
2019–20 Mikkel Krause Mads Nørgård Tobias Engelhardt Henrik Holtermann Kasper Wiksten Gert Larsen ECC 2019 (4th)
Tobias Thune Kasper WikstenDaniel Poulsen Oliver Søe DMCC 2020 Gold medal icon.svg
2020–21Mikkel Krause (fourth)Tobias ThuneMads Nørgård (skip)Kasper Wiksten Oliver Rosenkrands Søe Kenneth Hertsdahl WCC 2021 (11th)
2021–22Mikkel KrauseMads NørgårdHenrik HoltermannKasper WikstenTobias ThuneKenneth Hertsdahl,
Jasmin Lander (ECC)		 ECC 2021 (6th)
OQE 2021 Bronze medal icon.svg

Mixed doubles

SeasonFemaleMaleCoachEvents
2016–17 Natalie Asp Wiksten Kasper Wiksten Per Svensen WMDCC 2017 (30th)
2017–18 Natalie Wiksten Kasper Wiksten
2018–19Natalie WikstenKasper Wiksten
2019–20Natalie WikstenKasper Wiksten DMDCC 2020 Gold medal icon.svg [4]
2020–21Natalie WikstenKasper Wiksten
2021–22Natalie WikstenKasper Wiksten
2022–23Natalie WikstenKasper WikstenDMDCC 2023 (4th)
2024–25Natalie WikstenKasper WikstenDMDCC 2025 (2nd)

Personal life

His daughter Natalie Wiksten [5] is also a curler; together they played on World mixed doubles championship 2017 (12-y.o. Natalie was the youngest player in history of all "adult" world curling championships) and won gold on 2020 Danish MD championship. [6] [7] [8]

References

  1. ↑ "2021 BKT Tires-OK Tires World Men's Curling Championship Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Kasper Wiksten". results.worldcurling.org. World Curling.
  3. ↑ Junior DM - Herrer | Hvidovre Curling Club (in Danish)
  4. ↑ 2020 Danish Mixed Doubles Championship - Curlingzone
  5. ↑ "Natalie Wiksten". results.worldcurling.org. World Curling.
  6. ↑ Marissa Payne (29 April 2017). "'It's a fairy tale that won't stop': 12-year-old curler and dad dream of Olympic berth". The Washington Post.
  7. ↑ DEN Wiksten/Wiksten – Göteborgs Curlingklubb (in Swedish)
  8. ↑ Nick Zaccardi (1 May 2017). "12-year-old competes at world curling championship - OlympicTalk". NBC Sports.


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