Arne Stern (21 April 1927 - 1994) was the

lead Lead () is a chemical element; it has Chemical symbol, symbol Pb (from Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a Heavy metal (elements), heavy metal that is density, denser than most common materials. Lead is Mohs scale, soft and Ductility, malleabl ...

on the Norrköpings CK

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ...

team (from

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

) during the

World Curling Championships The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and Doubles curling, mixed doubles championships, as ...

known as the

1962 Scotch Cup The 1962 Scotch Cup was the fourth edition of what would later be called the Men's World Curling Championships. It was held at the Falkirk Ice Rink in Falkirk and the Haymarket Ice Rink in Edinburgh, Scotland and saw the debutant of Sweden in a ...

. Stern and his team won his lone

Swedish Men's Curling Championship The Swedish Men's Curling Championship () is the national championship of men's curling in Sweden. It has been held annually since 1917 (one of the oldest national championship in curling). (web archive; champions from 1917 to 2006) List of champi ...

in 1962, and represented Sweden at the 1962 Scotch Cup World Championships. There, they lost all their games. One factor that was to their disfavour was the fact that the Swedes were used to a rule where they had to release the rock before the tee-line, which was not the rule in international play. Stern would not win another Swedish men's championships, but won a national seniors championship in 1975 (again with 1962 teammates

Rolf Arfwidsson Rolf Arfwidsson (11 May 1928 – 2 August 2021) was the skip of the Norrköpings CK, a Swedish curling team, during the 1962 Scotch Cup, the first Swedish team to play at the World Curling Championships. (look for "Arfwidsson, Rolf") Arfwidsson ...

and Knut Bartels).

References

External links

* * (look at "CIP-20") * Video: ** ** 1927 births 1994 deaths Swedish male curlers Swedish curling champions 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub