Ruedi Attinger

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Ruedi Attinger
 
Team
Curling clubCC Dübendorf, Dübendorf [1]
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
World Championship
appearances
1 (1979)
European Championship
appearances
1 (1976)
Medal record
Curling
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1979 Bern
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1976 West Berlin
Swiss Men's Championship [2]
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1979
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1978 [3]
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1981
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg1982
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg1983

Ruedi Attinger is a former Swiss curler. He played lead position on the Swiss rink that won two 1976 European Curling Championships and a silver medal at the 1979 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]
1976–77 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Ruedi Attinger ECC 1976 Gold medal icon.svg
1977–78Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderRuedi Attinger SMCC 1978 Silver medal icon.svg
1978–79Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderRuedi AttingerSMCC 1979 Gold medal icon.svg
WCC 1979 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

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., Werner, Bernhard and Kurt 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 a skip of a team that won the Swiss men's silver in 2017 and bronze in 2016; Peter Jr. 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]

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