37 Facts About Niklas Edin

Johan Niklas Edin was born on 6 July 1985 and is a Swedish curler.

Niklas Edin is the only curler to skip men's curling teams to seven World Men's Curling Championship gold medals.

Niklas Edin is currently tied with Oskar Eriksson in first place on the WCF-recognized list of championship medals, with thirty-eight in total.

Niklas Edin reached the playoffs in forty-five Grand Slam of Curling events and won the Pinty's Cup with his current teammates, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, and Christopher Sundgren.

Niklas Edin has played exclusively in the position of skip since 2007.

Niklas Edin participated in as many as ten different sports simultaneously before he took up curling.

Niklas Edin started curling in 1999, inspired in part by the Swedish women's team skipped by Elisabet Gustafson when they secured the bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Five years later in 2004, Niklas Edin skipped his own team to a World Junior Curling Championship title for Sweden, defeating the team skipped by Stefan Rindlisbacher for Switzerland.

Niklas Edin skipped a new team in 2005 to a silver medal at the European Mixed Curling Championships, together with future longtime teammate Sebastian Kraupp.

In 2006, Niklas Edin won a second silver medal at the World Junior Curling Championships, this time playing third for Team Carlsen.

In 2007, Niklas Edin skipped a new team, playing this time with his future teammates in the senior division Fredrik Lindberg and Kristian Lindstrom at the World Junior Championships, winning his third silver junior championship medal.

In 2008, Niklas Edin skipped yet another team to the bronze medal at the 2008 European Mixed Curling Championships, with Anna Hasselborg playing third.

In 2007 and 2008, Niklas Edin joined up with Team Scotland to represent Sweden in the Contintental Cup and was the only participant from Sweden in 2007.

In 2009, Team Niklas Edin won Sweden's Elite Series as well as the Swedish National Championship.

Team Niklas Edin was selected to participate in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Niklas Edin played three games through severe pain with significant injuries, requiring the team to be reshuffled with Sebastian Kraupp skipping for the team, Fredrik Lindberg moving up to the third position, and Oskar Eriksson curling in the second position through the bronze medal game.

Team Niklas Edin then capped off the season by winning the World Championship gold medal at the 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship.

Later that same season, Team Niklas Edin became the first non-Canadian team to win the Tour Challenge and the Player's Championship.

Niklas Edin's team finished the season in first place on the Tour in terms of order-of-merit points and money won, becoming the first time a non-Canadian team won the Pinty's Cup.

Team Niklas Edin made the finals of the 2017 World Men's Curling Championship, winning a silver medal after falling short in the final to Team Canada.

Niklas Edin's win was significant as he is the only skip to reach this milestone since the World Championships expanded to three or more teams, with Richardson's first two Championships secured in contests between only two teams.

Niklas Edin played in all four legs of the inaugural Curling World Cup, losing in the finals of the second and third legs.

In November 2019 Team Niklas Edin won a record seventh European Curling Curling Championship at the 2019 European Curling Championships.

In February 2020, Team Niklas Edin won the Swedish Men's Curling Championships and thus cemented their right to compete for their third straight World Men's Championship title.

At the Tour Challenge, the team went undefeated on their way to winning the event, even though Niklas Edin was injured during the semifinal draw shot challenge and was sidelined through the final.

Niklas Edin was back in the lineup to play in the 2023 Canadian Open played in January that season.

Down by two in the tenth end, Niklas Edin had to throw a rock with an incredible amount of spin, making it curl enough to bump a guarded corner-frozen Norwegian stone at the perfect angle to avoid moving the Swedish rock it was frozen to, while moving the Norwegian stone far enough to score two.

Usually a rock will rotate just a few times during its trajectory, but Niklas Edin's rock made over 53.5 rotations according to curling oddsmaker Matt Hall.

Niklas Edin was successful though, with his shooter rock being the second point, which was confirmed after a measurement.

Niklas Edin teamed up with Rachel Homan for the inaugural mixed doubles event at the 2018 WCT Arctic Cup, and the duo won the event.

Sjodin and Niklas Edin won their next mixed doubles event, the 2020 WCT Tallinn Mixed Doubles International, defeating the tournament frontrunners Jayne Stirling and Fraser Kingan in the final.

Niklas Edin is the only skip in history to skip teams to seven World Men's Curling Championship gold medals and the first to do so at four consecutive World Men's Curling Championships.

Niklas Edin is the only skip in history to have skipped a team to three Olympic medals.

Niklas Edin currently holds several records with his teammates Eriksson, Sundgren, and Wrana, who formed the team that won four gold medals between 2018 and 2022.

Niklas Edin is the only curler to appear in the Continental Cup for twelve consecutive competitions.

In 2009 Niklas Edin was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame.

When Niklas Edin won the 2016 WFG Masters, he became the first non-Canadian skip to win a men's Grand Slam event.