Christoffer Svae
Birth date21 March 1982 (age 44)
Birth placeOslo, Norway
World championship appearances10 (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
European championship appearances11 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Olympic appearances3 (2010, 2014, 2018)

Christoffer Svae, nicknamed "Bompi"[1] (born 21 March 1982) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He is best known as the former second for Team Thomas Ulsrud.[2][3][4] With the team, he won a silver medal at 2010 Winter Olympics.

Career

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.[3][5][6][7]

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.[8][9][10][11]

Personal life

Svae is currently employed as a curling instructor and event manager[12] at AS Curlingbaner.[13]

Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateEvents
1998–99Thomas BerntsenThomas LøvoldJan Øivind HewittPetter MoeChristoffer Svae1999 World Junior Curling Challenge (Gold), 1999 WJCC
2000–01Thomas LøvoldPetter MoeFredrik HaalandChristoffer SvaeSindre Eirik Martinsen2001 WJCCB
2001–02Thomas LøvoldPetter MoeChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonChristopher Berntsen2002 WJCCB (Gold)
Thomas LøvoldPetter MoeChristoffer SvaeFredrik HaalandChristopher Berntsen2002 WJCC
2002–03Thomas LøvoldPetter MoeChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonBård Rieber-Mohn2003 WJCCB (Gold)
2005–06Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdThomas DueJan ThoresenChristoffer Svae2006 WCC (Bronze)
2006–07Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdThomas DueJan ThoresenChristoffer Svae2006 Baden Masters (Bronze)
2007–08Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad Petersson2007 Baden Masters, 2007 Lucerne Curling Trophy (Champion)
Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Due2007 ECC (Silver), 2008 WCC (Bronze)
2008–09Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad Petersson2008 Baden Masters (Champion), 2008 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup (Champion)
Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Due2008 ECC (Silver)
Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Løvold2009 WCC (Bronze)
2009–10Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Løvold (ECC, OG)2009 Baden Masters (Silver), Swiss Cup Basel (Champion), Bern Open (Champion), Lucerne Curling Trophy (Champion), ECC (Bronze), 2010 OG (Silver), WCC (Silver)
2010–11Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonMarkus Snove Hoiberg (ECC)2010 Radisson SAS Oslo Cup (Silver), 2010 ECC (Gold)
2011–12Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonMarkus Høiberg2011 ECC, 2012 WCC
2012–13Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonThomas Løvold
Markus Høiberg		2012 ECC, 2013 WCC
2013–14Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad PeterssonMarkus Høiberg2013 ECC, 2014 OG, 2014 WCC
2014–15Thomas UlsrudTorger NergårdChristoffer SvaeHåvard Vad Petersson

References

  1. ^ "Northern United GM Christoffer "Bompi" Svae wants to bring the entertainment value up at Rock League". Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  2. ^ "About Team Ulsrud". Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine TeamUlsrud.com. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Christoffer Svae" (Teams > Events). Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine ASHAM World Curling Tour. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Results/Statistics" (Competitions > European Championships). Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine European Curling Federation. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  6. ^ "Capitol One World Men's Championship – Day 6" (News). Archived 2010-05-14 at the Wayback Machine World Curling Federation. 8 April 2010.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants Facebook. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  10. ^ Adam Tschom (2010-02-23). "They'll do it Norway: Loud pants earn Facebook fan page shout-out". Los Angeles Times
  11. ^ Kyrie O'Connor (2010-02-25). "Olympics fashion from good to goofy". Houston Chronicle.
  12. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  13. ^ 2020 Continental Cup Media Guide: Team Europe Coach Bios