Thomas Ulsrud (born October 21, 1971) is a Norwegian binder from Oslo. He is a leap from the current world champions of the Norwegian national team and he is also a double European champion and former Olympic silver medalist. Ulsrud is also the current record holder for most of his victories by missing him at the World Men's Curling Championship.
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Careers
Ulsrud has been curled up since 1983. In the second Junior Curling World Championship in 1988, Ulsrud missed Norway with a bronze medal.
In 1997, he missed his first European Curling Championship, ending in seventh place. The Ulsrud team competed again in 2000-2003, 2006-2009, won bronze in 2002, silver in 2007, and bronze in 2009.
In his first World Curling Championship in 1998, Ulsrud missed Norway into fifth place. After serving as an alternative to the Trulsen team in 1999, he returned again through 2006-2009, making the playoffs for the first time in 2006 and then beating US team-mate Pete Fenson to win a bronze medal. Two bronze medals followed in 2008 and 2009.
Antara 2007 than 2010, Tim Ulsrud memenangkan enam acara World Curling Tour, Yaitu Tahun 2007 & amp; 2009 Lucerne Curling Trophies, 2008 Baden Masters, 2008 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup, 2009 Swiss Cup Basel, then 2009 Bern Open.
At the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, Ulsrud Team attracted the world's attention, not only for introducing the colorful harlequin pants of Loudmouth Golf into the arena but also to win a silver medal after the last game against Canadian Team Kevin Martin.
Soon at the start of the 2010 World Curling Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Ulsrud had to return home for family reasons. With Torger NergÃÆ' Â¥ rd acting as a skip, Ulsrud's teammate took first place at the end of the round-robin game (score 10-1) and won a silver medal.
The Ulsrud team started the 2010-11 season by winning their first ever gold medal in Europe, the Curling Championship in Champion, Switzerland. The team topped the season by completing fourth place in the 2011 Men's World Punch Championship.
The arena won its second European Championship in a row by winning a gold medal at the 2011 European Curling Championship. Then that season they will once again finish 4th in the 2012 Men's Curling World Championships. That season, the team won a WCT event, European Master 2012.
The Ulsrud Arena will continue their dominance in the European championship by winning silver medals in both 2012 and 2013 events. They are less successful at the Ford World Men Boxing Championships 2013, ending in 5th position. Arena again represented Norway once again at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they finished 5th, with a 5-5 record. They lost the tie-breaker match to England, passed by David Murdoch. At the World Curling Tour, the team won one event in 2013-14, Switzerland Swiss Basel Basel. The team closed their season by winning the gold medal at the Curling Men's World Championship 2014.
The World Champion, the Ulsrud arena, kicked off the spring 2014-15 by winning the first WCT event of the year, the Baden Masters 2014.
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Personal life
Ulsrud is married to Elin GrÃÆ'¸dal, and they have one son. He is employed as a business owner.
Team
Grand Slam Recording
References
External links
- Ulsrud's official website
- Thomas Ulsrud in the World Curling Federation database
- Thomas Ulsrud in the World Curling Tour database
- Thomas Ulsrud on the CurlingZone database
- Thomas Ulsrud on Sports References
- 2014 Olympic profile
- Full coverage of the Norwegian Olympic Team's performance at the 2010 Olympic Games 2010 Channel
- Thomas Ulsrud and HÃÆ' Â¥ vard Vad Petersson interviewed Eurosport Norge. "EurosportNorge mÃÆ'¸ter curlinggutta". December 4, 2009.
- The Norwegian team interviewed the Grand Slam of Curling. Olympic Curling - Norwegian team. February 17, 2010.
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