Oskar Eriksson
![[[Niklas Edin|Edin]] and Eriksson watch their opponent throw his rock at the 2018 Elite 10 Grand Slam curling event in Winnipeg, Manitoba](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Niklas_Edin_Elite_10_2018.jpg)
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 secure two Olympic medals in different curling disciplines in the same Olympic Games. He is also a seven-time World Men's Curling Champion, seven-time European Men's Curling Champion, and the first curler in history to win three gold medals in major international curling championships in a single calendar year – the World Men's Curling Championship, the European Curling Championship, and the World Mixed Doubles Championship. Having also won two World Mixed Doubles Championship medals (gold and bronze), he is the first and the only curler to win eight World Curling Championship gold medals in the senior men's division and has won thirteen World Curling Championship medals overall in that division. He also holds the record for most gold medals in international competitions as recognized by the World Curling Federation. He is the only member of Team Sweden to have competed in all of the World Men's Curling Championships from 2011 to 2024. He won medals in all but two of these championships, as well as playing in multiple positions – as skip (silver,
2014), third (gold,
2015,
2018,
2019,
2021,
2022, and
2024, and silver,
2017), second (bronze,
2012), and as an alternate (gold,
2013 and bronze,
2011). In 2022, Eriksson and his teammates also became the first men's team in history to win four consecutive World Men's Curling Championships. In 2024, Eriksson and Niklas Edin became the first and only two curlers in history to have seven career gold World Men's Curling Championship medals.
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