Christoffer Svae
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]
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| Born | 21 March 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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
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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
References
- "About Team Ulsrud". Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine TeamUlsrud.com. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- "Christoffer Svae" (Teams > Events). Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine ASHAM World Curling Tour. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- "Christoffer Svae, Curling" (Curling > Athletes). Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- "Results/Statistics" (Competitions > European Championships). Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine European Curling Federation. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- "Capitol One World Men's Championship – Day 6" (News). World Curling Federation. 8 April 2010.
- "Men's Gold Medal Game" (Curling Schedule > Results). Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. 27 February 2010.
- "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.
- The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants Facebook. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
- Adam Tschom (2010-02-23). "They'll do it Norway: Loud pants earn Facebook fan page shout-out". Los Angeles Times.
- Kyrie O'Connor (2010-02-25). "Olympics fashion from good to goofy". Houston Chronicle.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2015-04-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- 2020 Continental Cup Media Guide: Team Europe Coach Bios
External links
- Official homepage of Team Ulsrud
- Christoffer Svae on the World Curling Federation database
- Christoffer Svae on the World Curling Tour database
- Christoffer Svae on the CurlingZone database
- Profile at ASHAM World Curling Tour
- Facebook fan page for The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants
- Complete coverages of Team Norway's Olympics performances at the official Vancouver Olympic Games 2010 Channel
- Team Ulsrud in training on Eurosport Norge. "EurosportNorge møter curlinggutta". 4 December 2009.
- Team Norway interviewed on Grand Slam of Curling. Olympic Curling – Team Norway. 17 February 2010.
- Christoffer Svae interviewed on ABC News (Video). "The Conversation: pants from the curlers of Norway. 26 February 2010.