Peja Lindholm










Peja Lindholm
Curler
Peter Lindholm.jpg
Born
(1970-06-02) 2 June 1970 (age 48)

Östersund, Sweden

Career

World Championship
appearances
8 (1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007)

European Championship
appearances
10 (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007)

Olympic
appearances
3 (1998, 2002, 2006)

Peter "Peja" Rutger Lindholm (born 2 June 1970 in Östersund, Sweden) is a retired Swedish curler. Lindholm is currently the national coach of the Swedish Curling Association. Many regard him as the best European skip ever, and his longtime team of the same 4 players as the best European team in curling history.


Over his two-decade curling playing career, Lindholm won three world championships as a skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004, and also being runner up in both 1998 and 2000. He is also a two-time European champion (1998, and 2001) and a is former world junior champion (1989). He had constant disappointment in his career though at the Olympics, where despite being one of the gold medal favorites in each of 1998, 2002, 2006 his team ended up medalless, coming closest in 2002 with a 4th place finish.


One thing he was known for was amazing success against and being the career nemesis of Kevin Martin, arguably the best curlers ever, even running up a streak of 10 consecutive wins at one point which was broken in the semi finals of the 2002 Olympics.[citation needed] He also had an excellent record vs. the all time great team of Randy Ferbey (David Nedohin throwing skip stones) in the 2000s.[citation needed]


Lindholm announced his retirement from curling following the 2007 European Curling Championships.




Contents





  • 1 Coaching career


  • 2 Awards


  • 3 See also


  • 4 External links




Coaching career


In 2011, Lindholm became the coach of the Swedish men's team skipped by Niklas Edin, coaching them in the World Championships. He also coached the Swedish women's team at the 2010 World Championship. He then became the Swedish national coach in 2015 when Fredrik Lindberg became the team coach.


He was also either the Coach or Captain of Team Europe at the Continental Cup each time it was held from 2008-2015.



Awards



  • Colin Campbell Award: 1995

  • WJCC Sportsmanship Award: 1990

  • WJCC All-Star skip: 1989, 1990

  • WJCC All-Star second: 1991


See also


  • 1997 Ford World Curling Championships

  • 2001 Ford World Curling Championships

  • 2004 Ford World Curling Championships


External links



  • Peja Lindholm on the World Curling Federation database


  • Peja Lindholm on the World Curling Tour database


  • Peja Lindholm on the CurlingZone database


  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Peja Lindholm". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em







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