List of Famous people with last name Edin
Niklas Edin
Johan Niklas Edin is a Swedish curler from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He is a four-time World champion and, thus, the only curler in history since the World Men's Curling Championship expanded to six teams in 1964 to skip his teams to four gold medals. He has also won more international medals as skip than any other skip in history. In addition to his World Championship gold medals, he has won a silver medal (2017) and two bronze medals. He is also a seven-time European Curling Champion, additionally winning two silver medals in those championships. He has won two Olympic medals, winning a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the bronze medal the 2014 Winter Olympics. He has also made the playoffs in thirty-two Grand Slam of Curling events and skipped his team to become the first non-Canadian men's team to win any Slam, as well as the first and only men's team to win more than one Slam and the Pinty's Cup. With the same lineup in 2019, Edin and his teammates also became the first men's curling team since 2003 to win back-to-back World Curling Championships. Edin has played exclusively in the position of skip since 2007. The team bearing his name has been ranked on the World Curling Tour as high as No. 1, including for most of the 2017–18 season. Under the current World Curling Federation rankings, Team Edin is ranked among the Top 10 teams in the world.