Christoffer Svae

Christoffer Svae
Curler
Born (1982-03-21) 21 March 1982 (age 42)
Oslo, Norway
Curling career
World Championship
appearances		10 (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
European Championship
appearances		11 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Olympic
appearances		3 (2010, 2014, 2018)
Medal record
Curling
Representing  Norway
Winter Olympics
Silver medal – second place 2010 Vancouver
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Beijing
Silver medal – second place 2015 Halifax
Silver medal – second place 2010 Cortina d'Ampezzo
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Moncton
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Grand Forks
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Lowell
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Moscow
Gold medal – first place 2010 Champéry
Silver medal – second place 2016 Renfrewshire
Silver medal – second place 2014 Champéry
Silver medal – second place 2013 Stavanger
Silver medal – second place 2012 Karlstad
Silver medal – second place 2008 Örnsköldsvik
Silver medal – second place 2007 Füssen
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Esbjerg
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Aberdeen
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2009 Harbin

Christoffer Svae (born 21 March 1982) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He is best known as the former second for Team Thomas Ulsrud.[1][2][3]

At Junior level, Svae played second for Team Thomas Løvold and won gold medals at the 2002 and 2003 World Junior Curling Championships "B" tournaments.

Svae formally joined Team Ulsrud in 2007 having played alternate since 2005. During the 2005–2010 seasons, Svae and his team won six World Curling Tour events, three European Curling Championship medals (silver in 2007 and 2008; bronze in 2009), four World Curling Championship medals (bronze in 2006, 2008 and 2009; silver in 2010), and silver at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.[2][4][5][6]

It was Svae who selected Loudmouth Golf's colorful argyle pants (Dixie and Red & Gray) as Team Norway's uniform at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics because they came close to matching the Norwegian flag colors – red, white and blue. The pants brought Team Norway unprecedented popularity as shown by the surge in sales at Loudmouth Golf as well as the number of followers at the Facebook's Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants fan page exceeding over 600,000 by the end of the 2009-10 curling season.[7][8][9][10]

  1. ^ "About Team Ulsrud". Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine TeamUlsrud.com. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Christoffer Svae" (Teams > Events). Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine ASHAM World Curling Tour. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Christoffer Svae, Curling" (Curling > Athletes). Archived 2010-04-09 at the Wayback Machine Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Results/Statistics" (Competitions > European Championships). Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine European Curling Federation. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  5. ^ "Capitol One World Men's Championship – Day 6" (News). Archived 2010-05-14 at the Wayback Machine World Curling Federation. 8 April 2010.
  6. ^ "Men's Gold Medal Game" (Curling Schedule > Results). Archived 2010-04-08 at the Wayback Machine Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. 27 February 2010.
  7. ^ "Loudmouth Golf signs sponsorship deal with the silver medal winning Norwegian curling team". Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine The Golf Wire. 10 March 2010.
  8. ^ The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants Facebook. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  9. ^ Adam Tschom (2010-02-23). "They'll do it Norway: Loud pants earn Facebook fan page shout-out". Los Angeles Times.
  10. ^ Kyrie O'Connor (2010-02-25). "Olympics fashion from good to goofy". Houston Chronicle.