Oliver Dupont (born 16 January 1990) is a

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curler. He won a gold medal at the

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Career

Juniors

As a junior curler, Dupont competed in five consecutive

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with Denmark from

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. Denmark's best result was in

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, when they won their first ever junior title. Dupont's all-time World Junior Curling Championship personal record is 22–19.

Mixed doubles and men's

Dupont jumped into mixed curling, competing in the

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with Mette de Neergard. They finished in 9th. He later curled at the

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with his sister, Denise. They placed 5th. Dupont is a two-time Danish mixed doubles curling champion curler (in 2012 with

Mette de Neergaard Mette de Neergaard (born 6 November 1991 in Copenhagen) is a Danish curler. She is currently the alternate player on the Lene Nielsen Lene Nielsen (born 31 August 1986 in Hvidovre) is a Danish curler. She was the skip of the 2014 Danish Olym ...

, in 2015 with Denise Dupont). At the

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, Dupont and his team finished in ninth. However, Denmark had already qualified for the 2014 World Men's Championships the year before, and the Hvidore CC traveled to

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to compete. Dupont was an alternate, but ended up playing. Denmark finished in 12th. Dupont has also competes at various

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events, most recently the

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and 2014 Baden Masters.

Personal life

Oliver comes from a curling family. Dupont's father, Kim, competed at the 1980 and 1981

. They both curled for Hvidore CC. His sister, Denise, has competed at the

and

Olympics, as well as nine World Championships. His other sister, Madeleine, competed at the

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, and won the

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in 2004. He is engaged to Russian curler Viktoria Moiseeva.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dupont, Oliver Living people 1990 births Danish male curlers Sportspeople from Frederiksberg Continental Cup of Curling participants Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Denmark 21st-century Danish people