Madeleine Dupont

 ( 1987 Births ) 

Madeleine Kanstrup Dupont (born 26 May 1987 in Glostrup, Denmark "Madeleine Dupont," Team Dupont Curling) is a Danish curling from Copenhagen. She won the Frances Brodie Award in 2004. She currently skips her own team with teammates Mathilde Halse, Jasmin Holtermann, My Larsen, and Denise Dupont (Madeleine's sister).

Dupont has competed in three Olympic Games and 14 World Championships, winning medals at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship (silver) and the 2009 World Women's Curling Championship (bronze). She won a gold medal at the World Junior-B Curling Championships in 2004 and a silver medal in 2002 at the European Curling championships as an alternate for Dorthe Holm's team. She also won a bronze medal at the 2007 World Junior Curling Championships. She won two bronze medals at the European Championships, throwing last rocks for Denmark, in 2008 and 2009. In 2022, she became European champion after an extra-end win over Switzerland in the final. This was a second-ever European title for Danish women, with the previous win coming in 1994.

At the Olympics, Dupont threw last rocks for her country at the 2010 Vancouver Games, where the team finished in fourth place. She skipped the Danish team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang to a 10th-place finish, and again at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, finishing 9th.

On the World Curling Tour, she won the Yi Chun Ladies International event in Yichun, Heilongjiang in December 2011 and the 2021 Women's Masters Basel. Dupont and her team has also curled in many Tier 2 events at the Grand Slam of Curling.

As of August 2023, Dupont is a coordinator for the Danish curling elite programme.

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Personal life Dupont was featured topless in a calendar to promote curling. About the picture, she stated, "If a picture of me can get more people to watch curling on TV, that's a good thing." Dupont is a client manager at TV 2 in Denmark. She is married and has one son.

Dupont is part of a curling family, her father Kim Dupont competed at two World Junior Championships, and her brother Oliver Dupont won a silver medal at the 2016 World Men's Championship, and her sister Denise Dupont has been a long-time teammate.

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Grand Slam record

Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T2
Tour Challenge	N/A	T2	T2	T2	DNP
Canadian Open	N/A	DNP	DNP	DNP	T2
Champions Cup	Q	DNP	N/A	N/A	N/A

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Former events

Autumn Gold	Q

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Teammates

• 2007 Aomori World Championships
• 2009 Gangneung World Championships
• 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games
• Denise Dupont, Third
• Angelina Jensen, Skip
• Camilla Jensen, Lead
• Ane Hansen, Alternate

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External links

• target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Madeleine Dupont at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)
• Madeleine Dupont at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (archived)
• TeamDupont profile

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