Peter Attinger Jr.

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Peter Attinger Jr.
Curler
 ♂
Born (1951-01-15) 15 January 1951 (age 73)
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		2 (1976, 1984)
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 1974 Bern
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1976 West Berlin
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1984 Morzine
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 1987

Peter Attinger Jr. (born 15 January 1951) is a former Swiss curler and curling coach. He was the skip of the Swiss rink that won two European Curling Championships (1976, 1984) and medals at the World Men's Championships of 1979, and 1984 (silver) and 1974 (bronze).

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Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
1971–72 Bernhard 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]
1973–74Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderJürg GeilerSMCC 1974 Gold medal icon.svg
WCC 1974 Bronze medal icon.svg
1976–77Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias Neuenschwander Ruedi 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 Neuenschwander Kurt Attinger SMCC 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
1986–87Peter Attinger Jr.Werner Attinger Martin Zürrer Kurt AttingerSMCC 1987 Bronze medal icon.svg
1991–92Bernhard AttingerPeter Attinger Jr.Werner Attinger Thomas Grendelmeier SMCC 1992 Silver medal icon.svg
2005Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderJürg Geiler Simon Roth WSCC 2005 Bronze medal icon.svg
2006Peter Attinger Jr.Mattias NeuenschwanderBernhard Attinger Tony Knobel Fritz Widmer Fritz Widmer WSCC 2006 (5th)
2013Werner AttingerPeter Attinger Jr. Ronny Müller Tony KnobelBernhard Attinger WSCC 2013 Bronze medal icon.svg

Private life

Peter 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 Peter played and won his first national men's gold in 1972). His brothers - Bernhard, 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 son Felix is skip of team, he won Swiss men's silver in 2017 and bronze in 2016; Peter coached his team. [4] Bernhard's daughter Sandra Ramstein-Attinger [5] is a competitive curler too, she played on three Women's Worlds with teams skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni and Binia Feltscher-Beeli. [6]

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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 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 at World Curling
  6. ↑ Auf der Spur des Familienerfolgs - Curling Club Wetzikon (in German)


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