Kristian Lindström (born 4 November 1989) is a Swedish curler and coach, originally from

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Career

Juniors

As a junior curler, Lindström played in three

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. His first was the 2007 World Junior Curling Championships playing alternate for the

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team which won a silver medal at the event. Lindström then played in the

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throwing last stones for

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 team. The team finished in fourth place after losing to the United States in both the playoffs and the bronze medal game. The Eriksson rink would return to the World Juniors in 2011 with Lindström continuing to throw last stones. The team ran through the round robin in first place, with just one loss before winning both of their playoff games, including the final against Switzerland's

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. Lindström was also a member of the Eriksson rink (this time as third) at the

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where they won a gold medal.

Men's

On the

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, Lindström won three events as a member of the Eriksson rink, the 2009 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup, the 2012 Swiss Cup Basel and the 2013 European Masters. The team has played in two Grand Slam events, the

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where they went 1–4, and the 2014 Syncrude National where they made it to the quarter final. The team represented Sweden at the

2014 World Men's Curling Championship The 2014 World Men's Curling Championship was held from March 29 to April 6 at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. Norway's Thomas Ulsrud defeated Sweden's Oskar Eriksson in the final with a score of 8–3, securing his first world titl ...

, where they won a silver medal. Lindström and Eriksson joined the

rink in 2014, with Lindström playing second on the team. The team found immediate success with their new lineup, winning gold at the

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and at the 2015 World Men's Curling Championship. They struggled on the tour though, winning just one event, the 2015 European Masters. The team played in four slams that season, failing to qualify in three of them. They did however make it to the final of the 2015 Elite 10. The team started the next season by winning the 2015 Baden Masters, and then won another gold medal at the

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. The team played in all seven slams that season, making it only as far as the quarterfinals in four events. They played in the 2016 World Men's Curling Championship, finishing sixth. After the season, Lindström left the team to form his own rink. In 2014 he was inducted into the

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Coaching

Lindström also coached the Spanish women's team at the 2012 European Curling Championships as well as the Scottish team at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship and the Great Britain women’s team at the 2022 Olympics winning Gold.

Mixed

He skipped the Swedish mixed team at the 2016 World Mixed Curling Championship.

Personal life

Lindström's brother

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plays for the Steffen Walstad rink in Norway. He currently lives in

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and is the coach of the

Anna Hasselborg Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous hol ...

rink.

References

External links

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Team Eriksson player profile
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