Gaute Nepstad (born 9 September 1994 in Bergen) is a Norwegian curler, originally from

Ottestad Ottestad is a village in Stange Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village centre is located about north of the village of Stangebyen and about south of the village of Bekkelaget, Innlandet, Bekkelaget. The whole northern part of Stan ...

in the Hamar area. He plays lead on the 2022 Norwegian champion

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team from Trondheim. He currently lives and studies in Trondheim.

Curling career

Nepstad began curling at the age of 11, when he and his friends wanted to try the sport. He played on a frozen association football pitch in Ottestad, near his childhood home. Eventually, he started travelling to a club in

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with better ice conditions. In 2009, he was the runner-up at the Norwegian U17 boys championship. Nepstad was a member the Norwegian junior men's team at the

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and

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. In 2013 and 2014, the team was skipped by Eirik Mjøen. In 2013, Nepstad was the alternate on the team, but played in five games. The team finished in 5th place. In 2014, Nepstad played lead on the team. After finishing the round robin in first place with a 7–2 record, the team lost the semifinal to Switzerland, but won the bronze medal game against Canada. In 2015, Nepstad

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ped the team, but threw lead rocks. He led his team of Markus Skogvold,

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and Wilhelm Naess to a 4–5 record, finishing in sixth place. That year, Nepstad won the WJCC Sportsmanship Award. After juniors, Nepstad stopped curling for awhile. In 2019, Nepstead played lead on Team Norway at the

2019 Winter Universiade The 2019 Winter Universiade (russian: Зимняя Универсиада 2019), the XXIX Universiade, was a multi-sport event for student and youth athletes which took place from 2 to 12 March 2019 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. The 2019 W ...

, on a team skipped by

. The team went on to win the gold medal. The Magnus Ramsfjell rink, with Nepstad throwing lead stones won the 2022

Norwegian Men's Curling Championship The Norwegian Men's Curling Championship ( no, Norgesmesterskap i curling for herrer) is the national championship of men's curling in Norway. It has been held annually since 1957. It is organized by the Norwegian Curling Association ( no, Norges Cu ...

. It was Nepstad's first national men's championship. The team was chosen to represent Norway at the

2022 World Men's Curling Championship The 2022 World Men's Curling Championship was held from April 2 to April 10 at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, United States. Team Sweden, skipped by Niklas Edin, was the defending championship team. The 2022 WMCC trialed the no-tick rule for the fi ...

, where they finished in 10th with a 5–7 record. That season, the team also won the 2021

Prague Classic The Prague Classic is an annual tournament on the men's World Curling Tour. It is held annually in November at the Curling Aréna Praha Roztyly in Prague, Czech Republic. The purse for the event is Euro, €13,500, with the winning team receivi ...

World Curling Tour event. During the

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, the team won the Norwegian men's championship again and won the 2022

Curling Masters Champéry The Curling Masters Champéry is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the Palladium de Champéry in Champéry, Switzerland. The tournament is held in a triple-knockout format and is part of the World Curling Tour. The t ...

World Curling Tour event. They also played in the 2022 Masters and 2023 Canadian Open Grand Slam of Curling events. They made it to the semifinals of the Masters and failed to qualify for the playoffs in the Canadian Open. The team was chosen to represent Norway once again at the

2023 World Men's Curling Championship The 2023 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from April 1 to 9 at TD Place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ottawa was selected as the host site in ...

, where they went 10–2 in the round robin. This put the team in the playoffs, where they lost to Italy (skipped by

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) in the qualification game. The following week, the team played in the

2023 Players' Championship The 2023 Princess Auto Players' Championship was held from April 11 to 16 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, Ontario. It was the fifth Grand Slam event and final major of the 2022–23 curling season. In the women's final, Sweden's Isa ...

, where they went 2–3, missing the playoffs.

Personal life

Nepstad works as a data analyst.

References

External links

Profile on CurlingZone

World Curling Federation Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nepstad, Gaute Living people 1994 births Norwegian male curlers Universiade medalists in curling FISU World University Games gold medalists for Norway Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade Sportspeople from Bergen Sportspeople from Hamar People from Stange Sportspeople from Trondheim 21st-century Norwegian people