Rasmus Bele Åke Wranå (born 15 November 1994) is a

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curler from

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. He currently plays

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for the Swedish national team, skipped by

Niklas Edin Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF ...

. With his teammates Edin,

Oskar Eriksson Oskar Ingemar Eriksson (born 29 May 1991) is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. He currently plays third for the Niklas Edin rink. He is the first curler in history to win four Olympic medals – gold, silver, and two bronze – and the first to s ...

, and

Christoffer Sundgren Kjell Tommy Christoffer Sundgren (born 31 July 1989) is a Swedish curler. He currently plays lead for the Swedish national team, skipped by Niklas Edin. The World Curling Federation's historical records rank Sundgren as one of the most successfu ...

, Wranå became part of the first and only team in history to win four consecutive gold medals at the World Men's Curling Championship (, , , ). In 2017, Wranå and these same teammates also became the first non-Canadian men's curling team to win three Grand Slam tournaments and the Pinty's Cup, with Wranå reaching 18 Grand Slam playoffs overall during his time with Team Edin. Along with

Anders Kraupp Anders Kraupp (born 3 September 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish curler and curling coach. He competed at two Winter Olympics ( 2002, 2006). In 2013 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Teams Men's Mixed Mixed ...

, he is one of only two male curlers in Sweden to have won all three Swedish national championships in which he was eligible to compete in the senior division – men's team curling, mixed curling, and mixed doubles.

Awards

* : Gold (, , , ); Silver (). * : Gold (, , ); Silver (, ). * Swedish Men's Curling Championship: Gold (

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, 2020); Bronze (2016). *

World Junior Curling Championships The World Junior Curling Championships are an annual curling bonspiel featuring the world's best curlers who are 21 years old or younger. The competitions for both men and women occur at the same venue. The men's tournament has occurred since 1 ...

: Silver (

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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 ...

: Gold (2012, 2016). *

World Mixed Curling Championship The World Mixed Curling Championship is the world championship for mixed curling. It is held annually in the autumn, and replaced the European Mixed Curling Championship The European Mixed Curling Championship was a mixed curling tournament hel ...

: Silver (

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). *

Swedish Mixed Curling Championship The Swedish Mixed Curling Championship ( sv, Svenska mästerskap i curling för mixed, SM lag mixed) is the national championship of mixed curling (two men and two women) in Sweden. It has been held annually since 1968. (web archive; champions from ...

: Gold (2015, 2016); Bronze (2014). * Swedish Mixed Doubles Curling Championship: Gold (2020); Bronze (2013, 2016). *

Continental Cup of Curling The Continental Cup is a curling tournament held annually between teams from North America (sometimes just Canada) against teams from the rest of the World (sometimes just Europe). Each side is represented by six teams (three women's teams and thr ...

(Team World): Gold (

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; Silver (

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). * In 2018 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame.

Teams

Men's

Mixed

Mixed doubles

Grand Slam record

Personal life

His father is

Mats Wranå Mats Patrik Josef Wranå (born 22 January 1965) is a Swedish curler and curling coach. (look for "Wranå, Mats") At the international level, he is a two-time (, ). At the national level, he is a 1995 Swedish men's champion curler. In 2017 ...

, Swedish curler and coach. His sister is

Isabella Wranå Isabella Marianne Peggy Wranå (born 22 June 1997) is a Swedish curler. She is a former skip of the Swedish junior women's team, with whom she won a World Junior championship in 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of F ...

, Swedish curler.

References

External links

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Line-Up , Team Edin official site
Living people 1994 births Sportspeople from Stockholm Sportspeople from Karlstad Swedish male curlers Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers of Sweden Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in curling World curling champions European curling champions Swedish curling champions Curlers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Continental Cup of Curling participants 21st-century Swedish people {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub