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stockholm , sweden niklas edin 200 curling viktor kjäll oskar eriksson 20 may 1985 fredrik lindberg sebastian kraupp sebastian kraupp
 sebastian kraupp
sebastian kraupp

sebastian kraupp -lrb- born may 20 1985 -rrb- is a swedish curler from karlstad , sweden .
from 2005 to 2008 sebastian kraupp skipped his own team .
starting with the 2008 -- 2009 season he joined niklas edin 's team throwing third stones .
team edin first achieved widespread attention at the 2009 aberdeen european championships where they stunned the curling competition by finishing second after the round robin tournament with a 7 -- 2 record .
their only loses were to team murdoch of scotland and team ulsrud of norway who had won the gold and bronze medals respectively at the 2009 moncton world championships .
in the 1 vs. 2 playoff game kraupp 's team took on team ulsrud of norway who they upset 7 to 3 advancing directly to the gold medal match .
in the final they faced ralph stöckli 's team from switzerland .
they pulled off another upset and won their first european title .
sebastian kraupp and his team represented sweden at the 2010 winter olympics .
team sweden finished the round robin portion in a tie for the playoffs with team great britain , which they won .
in the semifinal match they lost to team canada skipped by kevin martin .
they lost to team switzerland in the bronze medal match and finished fourth overall matching the achievement of team sweden at the 2002 salt lake city olympics .
