Peja Lindholm

Peter "Peja" Rutger Lindholm (born 2 June 1970 in Östersund, Sweden) is a retired Swedish curler. Lindholm is currently the national coach of the Swedish Curling Association. Many regard him as the best European skip ever, and his longtime team of the same 4 players as the best European team in curling history.

Peja Lindholm
Curler
Born	(1970-06-02) 2 June 1970 Östersund, Sweden
Career
World Championship appearances	8 (1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007)
European Championship appearances	10 (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007)
Olympic appearances	3 (1998, 2002, 2006)
Medal record Men's curling Representing  Sweden World Curling Championships 1997 Berne 2001 Lausanne 2004 Gävle 1998 Kamloops 2000 Glasgow European Curling Championships 1998 Flims 2001 Vierumäki 2002 Grindelwald 2003 Courmayeur 2004 Sofia 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2000 Oberstdorf World Junior Curling Championships 1989 Markham 1988 Füssen 1990 Portage la Praire

Over his two-decade curling playing career, Lindholm won three world championships as a skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004, and also being runner up in both 1998 and 2000. He is also a two-time European champion (1998 and 2001) and is a former world junior champion (1989). He had constant disappointment in his career though at the Olympics, where despite being one of the gold medal favorites in each of 1998, 2002, 2006 his team ended up medalless, coming closest in 2002 with a 4th-place finish.

One thing he was known for was amazing success against and being the career nemesis of Kevin Martin, even running up a streak of 10 consecutive wins at one point which was broken in the semi finals of the 2002 Olympics. He also had an excellent record vs. the all-time great team of Randy Ferbey (David Nedohin throwing skip stones) in the 2000s.

Lindholm announced his retirement from curling following the 2007 European Curling Championships.