Kristin Skaslien
Kristin Skaslien | |
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Born | 18 January 1986 |
Team | |
Curling club | Oppdal CK, Oppdal |
Skip | Marianne Rørvik |
Fourth | Kristin Skaslien |
Second | Mille Haslev Nordbye |
Lead | Martine Rønning |
Alternate | Ingeborg Forbregd |
Mixed doubles partner | Magnus Nedregotten |
Curling career ![]() | |
Member Association | ![]() |
World Championship appearances | 8 (2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2022, 2023, 2024) |
World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances | 8 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2024) |
European Championship appearances | 15 (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) |
Olympic appearances | 2 (2018, 2022) |
Medal record |
Kristin Moen Skaslien (born 18 January 1986) is a Norwegian curler from Fornebu.[2] She currently throws fourth stones on Team Marianne Rørvik.
She was lead for the Norwegian team at the 2009 Mount Titlis World Women's Curling Championship in Gangneung, Korea, the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Swift Current, Canada.[3] the 2011 Capital One World Women's Curling Championship in Esbjerg, Denmark and the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship in Sapporo, Japan.
Mixed doubles career
In mixed doubles, Skaslien and partner Magnus Nedregotten have represented Norway in the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. The pair have finished 4th, 5th, 3rd, 9th, 5th and 9th respectively. They represented Norway in the mixed doubles tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics. They lost the bronze medal game against the Olympic Athletes from Russia, but due to a positive testing of meldonium from Alexander Krushelnitskiy, their bronze medals were stripped and given to Nedregotten and Skaslien.[4]
Skaslien and Nedregotten won the second leg and Grand Final of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup, defeating Switzerland's Jenny Perret and Martin Rios in the final of the second leg and Canada's Laura Walker and Kirk Muyres in the grand final. In the first leg, Skaslien was paired with Sander Rølvåg but missed the final and was paired with Thomas Ulsrud in the third leg, where she lost in the final to Canada's Kadriana Sahaidak and Colton Lott.
Personal life
Skaslien works as a project lead for the Norwegian Curling Federation.[2] She has an engineering degree in logistics from the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences and a Master's in technology management from Trondheim Business School.[5]
She is married to her mixed doubles partner, Magnus Nedregotten.[2]
References
- ^ Kristin Moen Skaslien curlingworldcup.com [dead link]
- ^ a b c "2024 World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "Teams and Athletes: Qualified Teams". World Women's Curling, Swift Current, 2010. Canadian Curling Association. Archived from the original on 27 February 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
- ^ "Russian curler stripped of Winter Olympics medal after admitting doping". The Guardian. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ "Olympic Athletes - Biographies, Medals & More".
External links
- Kristin Skaslien on the World Curling database
- Kristin Skaslien at Olympics.com
- Kristin Skaslien at Olympedia
- Norwegian female curlers
- Living people
- 1986 births
- Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Olympic curlers for Norway
- Olympic silver medalists for Norway
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- Olympic medalists in curling
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Trondheim
- Sportspeople from Oslo
- Sportspeople from Bærum
- 21st-century Norwegian women
- Norwegian curling biography stubs