Sebastian Kraupp
Sebastian Kraupp | |
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File:Sebastian Kraupp.jpg | |
Born | 20 May 1985 |
Team | |
Curling club | Karlstads CK, Karlstad, Sweden |
Skip | Niklas Edin |
Third | Sebastian Kraupp |
Second | Fredrik Lindberg |
Lead | Viktor Kjäll |
Alternate | Oskar Eriksson |
Curling career ![]() | |
World Championship appearances | 3 (2011, 2012, 2013) |
European Championship appearances | 4 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) |
Olympic appearances | 2 (2010, 2014) |
Sebastian Kraupp (born 20 May 1985) is a Swedish curler from Karlstad, Sweden.
From 2005 to 2008 Sebastian Kraupp skipped his own team.[1] Starting with the 2008–2009 season he joined Niklas Edin's team throwing Third stones.
Team Edin first achieved widespread attention at the 2009 Aberdeen European Championships where they stunned the curling competition by finishing second after the round robin tournament with a 7 – 2 record. Their only loses were to Team Murdoch of Scotland and Team Ulsrud of Norway who had won the Gold and Bronze medals respectively at the 2009 Moncton World Championships. In the 1 vs. 2 Playoff Game Kraupp's team took on Team Ulsrud of Norway who they upset 7 to 3 advancing directly to the Gold Medal match. In the final they faced Ralph Stöckli's team from Switzerland. They pulled off another upset and won their first European title.
Sebastian Kraupp and his team represented Sweden at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[2] Team Sweden finished the Round Robin portion in a tie for the Playoffs with Team Great Britain, which they won. In the semifinal match they lost to Team Canada skipped by Kevin Martin. They lost to Team Switzerland in the Bronze medal match and finished fourth overall matching the achievement of Team Sweden at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
Teammates
2009 Aberdeen European Championships
Niklas Edin, Skip
Fredrik Lindberg, Second
Viktor Kjäll, Lead
Oskar Eriksson, Alternate
References
External links
- Sebastian Kraupp on the World Curling database
- Sebastian Kraupp on the World Curling Tour database (archived)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sebastian Kraupp". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
- Swedish male curlers
- Living people
- Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Olympic curlers of Sweden
- 1985 births
- People from Stockholm
- People from Karlstad
- World curling champions
- European curling champions
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in curling
- Medalists at the 2007 Winter Universiade
- Universiade medalists in curling