Mikkel KRAUSE

Historical Results

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“No real time for too many hobbies at the moment. I do spend a lot of time watching/following NFL football, so I guess that’s kind of it at the moment.” (Athlete, 5 Jan 2022)

Courier (runs daily errands at the European Sperm Bank)

Partner, Lara. Father, Gert Larsen. Mother, Malene Krause. Brother, Mathias.

Danish, English

Hvidovre CC

Team: Kenneth Hertsdahl (DEN)

Fourth

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Father Gert Larsen (Curling): Finished sixth at the Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games, as a demonstration sport. Seven World Championship appearances (1982-2001), including fourth in 1987. Bronze medallist at the 1981 European Championships with a 6-2 record. Coached Mikkel to gold at the 2009 World Junior Championships and again at the 2019 European Championships (fourth). Coached the Danish women's team at Sochi 2014.

Mother Malene Krause (Curling): Competed at four Olympic Winter Games, two as a demonstration sport (1988, 1992) and two where she was eighth twice (2002, 2006). Fourteen appearances at the World Championships (1980-2003), winning three bronze medals (1990, 1999, 2001). Five-time medallist at the European Championships with two silver (2001, 2002) and three bronze (1981, 2003, 2005). Junior European champion in 1983. Coached the Danish women's team at the 2014 European Championships (fourth).

2010 European Championships in Champery vs. Czech Republic (8-7 Win)

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Started curling after hanging out at the facility while his parents played. He was eight years old.

"Both my parents have played ever since curling came to Denmark. Actually, it was my grandfather who brought the sport to Denmark. He was in the ice skating community and was part of a group of people who bring curling to the country. So it was always in the cards that I should play, I guess.” (Athlete, 5 Jan 2022)

“Ambitions are a funny thing. For as long as I can remember, my ambition has been to reach the Olympics at some point in my career. Even now that we have qualified and with the world being in the state that it is in, this is interestingly still my ambition, avoiding COVID and getting on that plane. Until we arrive in Beijing, I try to not think too much about the actual games.” (Athlete, 5 Jan 2022)

Winning the 2009 World Junior Championship in Vancouver, against Brett Gallant (CAN). “It was (skip) Rasmus Stjerne’s last year of juniors and we’d played six times by then, it was a long fight. When it finally happened, we were kind of in shock.” (Athlete, 10 Jan 2022)

Curler Sebastian Stock (GER), Salt Lake City 2002 Olympian, 2004 World Championship silver medallist and two-time European champion. (Athlete, 5 Jan 2022)

His parents. (Athlete, 5 Jan 2022)

Has a “bad habit” of trying to replicate “everything” whenever games go well. “That can be everything from eating the exact same breakfast as the day before or wearing the same pair of socks for the game as the previous game. I admit it can get a bit silly sometimes, but why change a winning routine, you know?” (Athlete, 5 Jan 2022)

“Always come as prepared as possible. Once you’re at an event, you play the way you do. But when it comes to preparations, you’re your own master in terms of how many hours and how much preparation you have done before an event. I want to be able to look back and say I couldn’t have done more.” (Athlete, 5 Jan 2022)

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