Oskar Eriksson

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 six-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 have seven World Curling Championship gold medals in the senior men's division and has won twelve 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.

Eriksson made his first run for a junior world championship title when he was sixteen at the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships, skipping his first team to a silver medal.

The team, consisting of Henric Jonsson, Markus Franzén, and Nils Karlsson, lost in the final to the US team skipped by Chris Plys.

In 2008, Eriksson moved to Härnosand to join other promising curlers at Härnosands gymnasium.

He also joined Team Lit/Lindström, formed by brothers Kristian Lindström and Alexander Lindström, together with Christoffer Sundgren and Henrik Leek.

The team immediately succeeded on the junior tour and scored wins in the senior division.

Shortly after joining Team Lit in 2008, Eriksson played simultaneously with two teams.

His official team during this period was Team Lit, alternatively known as Team Lindström and eventually Team Eriksson.

With this team, Eriksson made his second run for the gold medal at the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships, but finished in fourth place, losing in the bronze-medal game to the US team that was again skipped by Plys.

In addition to their early tour successes, Team Lit finished second in the standings of the Swedish Men's Curling Championships in 2009, reaching the semifinals, and finished second in their group Division 1 of the Elite series the same year.

He competed with a second team, however, from 2009 through February 2014, as he was selected as the alternate for Team Niklas Edin – with Niklas Edin, Sebastian Kraupp, Fredrik Lindberg, and Viktor Kjäll – in all of their international championship appearances.

As an alternate for Team Edin during this period, Eriksson received numerous international medals, including two gold medals at the European Curling Championships (2009 and 2012) and three World Curling Championship medals, including his first World Championship gold medal (2013) and two bronze medals (2011 and 2012).

With his own team, however, Eriksson and his teammates won several international events, including the Oslo Cup (2009), Swiss Cup Basel (2012), and European Masters (2013), as well as the Winter Universiade (2013).

Though the team did not qualify to compete at the championships in 2010, Eriksson and his teammates finally won a gold medal at the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships, defeating Team Switzerland, skipped by Peter de Cruz, by a score of 6–5 in the final.

He also made his first Olympic appearances with Team Edin, coming in fourth in the 2010 Winter Olympics and receiving a bronze medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics.

He is the only member of Team Sweden to have competed in all of the World Men's Curling Championships from 2011 to 2021.

As part of Team Edin, he competed in three World Curling Championships (2011-2013), five European Curling Championships (2009-2013), and the 2010 and 2014 Olympic Games.

During this period, however, Team Lit became more competitive with Team Edin and was well recognized as one of the top two men's curling teams in Sweden.

While Team Lit came in second to Team Edin in the Elite Series from 2011-2013, Team Lit also won the Swedish Men's Curling Championship in 2011, 2013, and 2014.

He played his first full games at a major championship in the senior division at the 2011 European Curling Championships in the final two round-robin draws.

By 2012, Eriksson's Lit teammates were no longer eligible for junior competition, but Eriksson was still eligible for junior championships.

He skipped Team CK Granit-Gävle, consisting of Ludwig Grann, Erik Ölund, and Magnus Rudström, at the 2012 Swedish Junior Curling Championships with the aim of qualifying for the World Junior Curling Championship.

Eriksson's team was undefeated until the finals, but there they came in second place to the team from Sundyberg, skipped by his future teammate Rasmus Wranå, whose team won silver at the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships.

At the 2012 World Men's Curling Championship, however, he notably played in the second position for all games except three because Niklas Edin, the permanent skip, was suffering from a herniated disc in his back.

Eriksson also played this position in the playoffs, in which Team Sweden won its second World Curling Championship bronze medal.

At the 2013 European Curling Championships, he also curled for a third of the round-robin games, playing the second position in the seventh and eighth draws and the third position in the final draw, helping the team secure a winning record, despite not making the playoffs.

He won medals in all but one of these championships, as well as playing in multiple positions – as skip (silver, 2014), third (gold, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 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, with Eriksson and Niklas Edin becoming the first and only two curlers in history to have six career gold World Men's Curling Championship medals.

Eriksson began curling before he was six years old.

He followed his older brothers Anders Eriksson and Markus Eriksson into the sport, but his skill level advanced more rapidly.

He was part of a curling team at age seven, debuting in Sweden's Elite Series at the age of thirteen.

He won his first Swedish Men's Curling Championship title in his junior career and has gone on to win six more championship titles since then.

As a junior, Eriksson also competed at three World Junior Curling Championships, winning both a gold medal and a silver medal.

At those three World Junior Championships, Eriksson skipped two different Swedish teams, winning a total of 24 games and losing only 9.

Eriksson skipped the team for most of this period through 2014.