Maria Poulsen (born 29 October 1984) is a

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curler. She currently plays lead for the

Lene Nielsen Lene Nielsen (born 31 August 1986 in Hvidovre) is a Danish curler. She was the skip of the 2014 Danish Olympic Curling Team. Career Nielsen played in her first international events in 2004, as an alternate for the Madeleine Dupont rink. Even th ...

rink. Poulsen was the lead on the

Denise Dupont Denise Kanstrup Dupont (born 24 May 1984) is a Danish curler. She throws third rocks for the Danish national team, skipped by Angelina Jensen. After several years of limited success in the Junior ranks, Dupont joined Dorthe Holm's team and was ...

rink that finished 9th place at the 2001

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. At the 2004 World Junior Curling Championships, the rink, now skipped by

Madeleine Dupont Madeleine Kanstrup Dupont (born 26 May 1987 in Glostrup, Denmark) is a Danish curler from Copenhagen. She won the Frances Brodie Award in 2004. She currently skips her own team with teammates Mathilde Halse, Denise Dupont (Mad ...

finished 6th. They then finished 8th at the 2004 Ford World Women's Curling Championship and in 8th at the

2004 European Curling Championships The 2004 European Curling Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from December 4 to 11. Men's A tournament Final round robin standings Draws =Draw 1= ''December 4th, 14:00'' =Draw 2= ''December 5th, 8:00'' =Draw 3= ''December ...

. They then finished in 5th place at the

2005 World Junior Curling Championships The 2005 World Junior Curling Championships were held from March 3 to 13 at the Pinerolo Palaghiaccio in Pinerolo, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It ...

, followed by a 10th-place finish at the

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. During the 2005–06 season, Poulsen was the alternate for the

Dorthe Holm Dorthe Holm (born 3 July 1972) is a Danish curler from Kastrup. Career Holm skipped the Danish women's team at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The team were the only athletes Denmark sent to the games, as such Holm carried the flag for Denmark in th ...

rink that won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Curling Championships and in 8th place at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...

. That season she also played lead for Nielsen's junior rink, winning a bronze medal at the

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. With Nielsen, Poulsen won another bronze at the

2007 European Curling Championships The 2007 Le Gruyère European Curling Championships were held in Füssen, Germany December 1-8, 2007. Scotland, skipped by David Murdoch, won the gold medal by beating Norway's Thomas Ulsrud 5-3 in the final. Norway had not lost a single game enteri ...

, followed by a 5th-place finish at the 2010 European Curling Championships. They represented Denmark at the

2011 Capital One World Women's Curling Championship The 2011 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as Capital One World Women's Curling Championship 2011 for sponsorship reasons) was held in Esbjerg, Denmark at the Granly Hockey Arena from March 19–27, 2011. The Swedish rink skipped by Anett ...

which was played in Denmark.

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