Bernhard Attinger

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Bernhard Attinger
Curler
 ♂
Born (1953-07-22) 22 July 1953 (age 71)
Team
Curling clubCC Dübendorf, Dübendorf [1]
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
World Championship
appearances		4 (1972, 1974, 1979, 1984)
European Championship
appearances		3 (1976, 1984, 1988)
Other appearances World Senior Championships: 3 (2005, 2006, 2013)
Medal record
Curling
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1979 Bern
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1984 Duluth
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1984 Bern
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1976 West Berlin
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1984 Morzine
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1988 Pert
Swiss Men's Championship [2]
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1972
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1974
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1979
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1984
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1978 [3]
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1980
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1981
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1992
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1982
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1983
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1989
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1990

Bernhard Attinger (born 22 July 1953) is a former Swiss curler. He played third position on the Swiss rink that won two European Curling Championships (1976, 1984) and medals at the World Men's Championships in 1979 and 1984 (silver) and 1974 (bronze).

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He works as a vice-president of Curling Club Dübendorf [4] and as a vice-president of Dübendorf-based company "Rossweid Immobilien AG". [5]

Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
1971–72Bernhard Attinger Peter Attinger Jr. Mattias Neuenschwander Jürg Geiler SJCC 1972 Gold medal icon.svg [3]
Ernst Bosshard (fourth) Peter Attinger Sr. (skip)Bernhard AttingerPeter Attinger Jr. SMCC 1972 Gold medal icon.svg
WCC 1972 (5th)
1972–73Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderJürg GeilerSJCC 1973 Gold medal icon.svg [3]
1973–74Bernhard Attinger Kurt Attinger Ruedi Attinger Louis Keller SJCC 1974 Gold medal icon.svg
WJCC 1974 Gold medal icon.svg
(unofficial) [3]
Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderJürg GeilerSMCC 1974 Gold medal icon.svg
WCC 1974 Bronze medal icon.svg
1976–77Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderRuedi Attinger ECC 1976 Gold medal icon.svg
1977–78Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderRuedi AttingerSMCC 1978 Silver medal icon.svg
1978–79Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderRuedi AttingerSMCC 1979 Gold medal icon.svg
WCC 1979 Silver medal icon.svg
1979–80Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderKurt AttingerSMCC 1980 Silver medal icon.svg
1980–81Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderRuedi AttingerSMCC 1981 Silver medal icon.svg
1981–82Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerRuedi AttingerKurt AttingerSMCC 1982 Bronze medal icon.svg
1982–83Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerRuedi AttingerKurt AttingerSMCC 1983 Bronze medal icon.svg
1983–84Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard Attinger Werner Attinger Kurt AttingerSMCC 1984 Gold medal icon.svg
WCC 1984 Silver medal icon.svg
1984–85Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerWerner AttingerKurt Attinger ECC 1984 Gold medal icon.svg
1988–89Bernhard AttingerWerner Attinger Martin Zürrer Marcel Senn ECC 1988 Bronze medal icon.svg
SMCC 1989 Bronze medal icon.svg
1989–90Bernhard AttingerWerner AttingerMartin ZürrerMarcel SennSMCC 1990 Bronze medal icon.svg
1991–92Bernhard AttingerPeter Attinger Jr.Werner Attinger Thomas Grendelmeier SMCC 1992 Silver medal icon.svg
2004–05Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderJürg Geiler Simon Roth WSCC 2005 Bronze medal icon.svg
2005–06Mattias NeuenschwanderBernhard AttingerPeter Attinger Jr. Anton Knobel SSCC 2006 Gold medal icon.svg [3]
Peter Attinger Jr.Mattias NeuenschwanderBernhard AttingerTony Knobel Fritz Widmer Fritz Widmer WSCC 2006 (5th)
2006–07Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard Attinger Christian Roth Anton KnobelSSCC 2007 Bronze medal icon.svg [3]
2012–13Werner AttingerPeter Attinger Jr. Ronny Müller Tony KnobelBernhard Attinger WSCC 2013 Bronze medal icon.svg
2017–18Bernhard AttingerJürg WagenseilWerner BüchlerPeter JauchSSCC 2018 (15th) [6]

Private life

Bernhard Attinger grew up in a family of curlers. His father Peter Attinger Sr. is a 1972 Swiss men's champion (he was skip of a team where Bernhard played and won his first national men's gold in 1972). His brothers - Peter Jr., Werner, Ruedi and Kurt - are curlers too, they won Swiss and European championships and Worlds medals when they played in Peter Jr.'s team. His nephew (Peter Jr.'s son) Felix is skip of team, he won Swiss men's silver in 2017 and bronze in 2016; Peter Jr. coached his team. [7] Bernhard's daughter Sandra Ramstein-Attinger [8] is a competitive curler too, she played on three Women's Worlds with teams skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni and Binia Feltscher-Beeli. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Curling Club Dübendorf (in German)
  2. ↑ Curling Schweizermeisterschaft - www.ccflims.ch - 3. bis 20. Februar 2016, Flims (in German) (at last page list of all Swiss curling champion teams: men's 1943—2015 and women's 1964—2015; before 2003 team line-ups shown in reverse order: alternate (if exists), lead, second, third, skip)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Erfolge des Curling Club Dübendorf (in German)
  4. ↑ "Kontakt Vize-Präsident - Curling Club Dübendorf" (in German). Archived from the original on September 28, 2018. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Rossweid Immobilien AG, Gockhausen | information complète (in German)
  6. ↑ Senioren SM 2017-18 Rangliste (in German)
  7. ↑ "40 Jahre Curling-Club Dübendorf: Die Attinger-Saga". Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, Schweiz. 2002-09-18. Retrieved 2017-09-14.(in German)
  8. ↑ Sandra Ramstein-Attinger at World Curling
  9. ↑ Auf der Spur des Familienerfolgs - Curling Club Wetzikon (in German)


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