Kurt Attinger

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Kurt Attinger
Curler
 ♂
Team
Curling clubCC Dübendorf, Dübendorf [1]
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
World Championship
appearances		1 (1984)
European Championship
appearances		1 (1984)
Medal record
Curling
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1984 Duluth
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1984 Morzine
Swiss Men's Championship [2]
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1984
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1980 [3]
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1982
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1983
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1987

Kurt Attinger was a Swiss curler. He played lead position on the Swiss rink that won the 1984 European Curling Championships and a silver medal at the 1984 World Men's Championship.

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Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadEvents
1973–74 Bernhard Attinger Kurt Attinger Ruedi Attinger Louis Keller SJCC 1974 Gold medal icon.svg
WJCC 1974 Gold medal icon.svg
(unofficial) [3]
1979–80 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Kurt Attinger SMCC 1980 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
1986–87Peter Attinger Jr.Werner Attinger Martin Zürrer Kurt AttingerSMCC 1987 Bronze medal icon.svg

Private life

Attinger grew up in a family of curlers. His father Peter Sr. is a 1972 Swiss men's champion. His brothers - Peter Jr., Bernhard, Ruedi and Werner are curlers too. They won Swiss and European championships and Worlds medals when they played on Peter Jr.'s team. His nephew (Peter Jr.'s son) Felix is the skip of a team that won the Swiss men's silver in 2017 and bronze in 2016, with Peter Jr. coaching this team. [4] Bernhard's daughter, Sandra Ramstein-Attinger [5] is a competitive curler too. She played in three Women's Worlds with teams skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni and Binia Feltscher-Beeli. [6]

Kurt Attinger died in 2011 of cancer. [7]

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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 Erfolge des Curling Club Dübendorf (in German)
  4. ↑ "40 Jahre Curling-Club Dübendorf: Die Attinger-Saga". Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG. 2002-09-18. Retrieved 2017-09-14.(in German)
  5. ↑ Sandra Ramstein-Attinger on the World Curling database
  6. ↑ Auf der Spur des Familienerfolgs - Curling Club Wetzikon (in German)
  7. ↑ "Familien-Eis - News Reisen: Aktiv - tagesanzeiger.ch" (in German). February 6, 2018.German: "Vor sieben Jahren erlag Evis Mann einem Krebsleiden. Kurt war eines von sechs Kindern des Curling-Pioniers Peter Attinger"; English: "Seven years ago, Evis man died of cancer. Kurt was one of six children of curling pioneer Peter Attinger"


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