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Bitte Berg
Bitte Berg (born February 21, 1961) is a Swedish female curler. (Swedish female national curlers; look at "Berg, Bitte") Teams Personal life Her husband is fellow curler , as is their daughter,Cecilia Östlund
Cecilia "Cissi" Östlund (born 10 January 1988) is a Swedish curler. She was skip for the Swedish team at the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships in Östersund, win ...
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Karlstads Curlingklubb
Karlstads Curlingklubb (Karlstads CK) is a curling club located in Karlstad, Sweden. It is currently best known as the home club of Team Niklas Edin, which holds a record of winning five World Curling Championship titles and seven European Curling Championship titles. It was also the home club of one of the most successful women's curling teams of all time, skipped by Elisabeth Högström. The team skipped by Högström won Sweden's first women's World Curling Championship gold medal, in addition to two World Curling Championship silver medals and four European Curling Championship gold medals.https://www.curling.se/folja/NYHETERCURLING.SE/elisabethhogstrominvaldihalloffame History Karlstads CK was founded on October 12, 1926, at Stadshotellet in Karlstad. On December 28, 1927, the club's first match was played against teams from other cities in Sweden. In 2008, the Karlstad Curling Arena was opened and is now the current home for Karlstads CK. Over the course of its history, teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Högström
Elisabeth Högström (born 17 March 1951 as Elisabeth Carlsson) is a Swedish curler, world champion and five times European champion. (Swedish female national curlers; look at "Högström, Elisabeth") In 1973 she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. In 2016 she was inducted into the World Curling Federation Hall of Fame. International championships Högström became world champion in |
1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cecilia Östlund
Cecilia "Cissi" Östlund (born 10 January 1988) is a Swedish curler. She was skip for the Swedish team at the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships in Östersund, winning a silver medal and she was the skip of the Swedish team at the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Swift Current, Canada, finishing fourth In June 2010 it was announced that Östlund's team would join forces with Anette Norberg, with Östlund playing third. This team won the 2011 World Women's Curling Championship. Östlund would later become a skip again. She was the skip of team Sweden at the 2015 European Curling Championships. She led her rink of Sabina Kraupp, Sara Carlsson, Paulina Stein and Anna Huhta to a 5-4 record, finishing in 5th place. While attending Karlstad University, Östlund represented the Swedish university curling team, skipped by Sara McManus at the 2015 Winter Universiade, finishing 4th. She joined the Margaretha Sigfridsson Margaretha Sigfridsson (born 28 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Östlund
Connie Östlund (born 22 February 1960) is a Sweden, Swedish curling, curler. (look for "Östlund, Connie") He is a and . In 2015 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Teams Personal life Connie Östlund is married to Bitte Berg, Bitte Berg-Östlund, former Swedish curler, she played for Sweden on World and European championships. Their daughter Cecilia Östlund is Swedish curler too, she is . References External links * * Living people 1960 births Swedish male curlers Swedish curling champions {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inga Arfwidsson
Inga Arfwidsson (born 26 April 1940) is a Swedish female curler. She is a and a . She was a board member of the Swedish Curling Association (SCA) from 1980 to 1988, and was SCA chairperson from 1990 to 1991. She is also an international curling judge. In 1979 she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Personal life Her older sister Barbro Barbro is a female given name in Scandinavia, with the same origin as Barbara In a village in Dalecarlia, Barbro is also an "estate name", a unisex concept not taken into account in the Swedish name law, which leads to a lot of confusion.http://sp ... was her teammate. Teams References External links * * *Svensk Curling nr 1 2013 by Svenska Curlingförbundet - issuu(page 12-13, "Inga Arfwidsson") * Living people 1940 births Swedish female curlers European curling champions Swedish curling champions 20th-century Swedish women {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Andersson (curler)
Eva Andersson (born 3 June 1970) is a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... female curler. (Swedish female national curlers; look at "Andersson, Eva") Teams References External links * Living people 1970 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitta Sewik
Gun-britt Birgitta Sewik (born 13 January 1949) is a Swedish female curler. (Swedish female national curlers; look at "Sewik, Birgitta") She is a and a three-time (, , ). She competed at the when curling was a demonstration sport
A demonstration sport, or exhibition sport, is a sport which is played to promote it, rather than as part of standard medal competition. Thi ...
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Swedish Junior Curling Championships
The Swedish Junior Curling Championships ( sv, Svenska mästerskap i curling för juniorer, Junior SM, JSM) is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best junior-level men's and women's curling teams in Sweden. Junior level curlers must be under the age of 21 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tournament. It has been held annually since the 1966-1967 season for junior men and the 1972-1973 season for junior women; the championship events are organized by the Swedish Curling Association ( sv, Svenska Curlingförbundet). (at the end - champions from beginning to 2011-12) Champions Men Women References {{reflist
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Karlstad
Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants in the wider municipality in 2021, and is the 21st biggest municipality in Sweden. Karlstad has a university and a cathedral. During recent years, Karlstad has started building many new buildings, for example all the new buildings around Orrholmen, hosting a brand new Coop store and a 17 story high rise apartment which will be finished in late 2022. Karlstad is built on the river delta where Sweden's longest river, Klarälven, runs into Sweden's largest lake, Vänern. It has the second largest lake port in the country after Västerås. Karlstad is often associated with sunshine and the symbol for Karlstad is a smiling sun. Karlstad is reputed to be one of the sunniest towns in Sweden and a local waitress, known as "Sola i Karlstad" ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
