Werner Attinger

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Werner Attinger
 
Team
Curling clubCC Dübendorf, Dübendorf [1]
Career
Member AssociationFlag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland
World Championship
appearances
1 (1984)
European Championship
appearances
4 (1984, 1988, 1996, 1998)
Other appearances World Senior Championships: 1 (2013)

Werner Attinger is a former Swiss curler. He played second 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

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
1983–84 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Werner Attinger Kurt Attinger SMCC 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
1988–89Bernhard AttingerWerner AttingerMartin 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
1995–96 Felix Luchsinger Werner Attinger Markus Foitek Markus Luchsinger SMCC 1996 Bronze medal icon.svg
1996–97Felix LuchsingerWerner AttingerMarkus FoitekMarkus LuchsingerThomas Grendelmeier Frédéric Jean ECC 1996 Bronze medal icon.svg
1997–98Felix LuchsingerWerner Attinger Andreas Schwaller Thomas GrendelmeierSMCC 1998 Silver medal icon.svg
1998–99Felix LuchsingerWerner AttingerThomas GrendelmeierMarkus LuchsingerMarkus FoitekFrédéric Jean ECC 1998 (5th)
2000–01Werner Attinger Sacha Knobel Markus Arnold Thomas Kuhn Christian Moser SMCC 2001 Bronze medal icon.svg
2012–13Werner AttingerPeter Attinger Jr. Ronny Müller Tony Knobel Bernhard Attinger (WSCC) SSCC 2013 Gold medal icon.svg
WSCC 2013 Bronze medal icon.svg
2014–15Werner AttingerPeter Attinger Jr.Ronny MüllerTony KnobelSSCC 2015 Bronze medal icon.svg
2015–16Werner AttingerPeter Attinger Jr.Ronny MüllerTony KnobelSSCC 2016 Silver medal icon.svg
2016–17Werner AttingerPeter Attinger Jr.Ronald Müller Marc Brügger Tony KnobelSSCC 2017 Silver medal icon.svg

Private life

Werner Attinger grew up in a family of curlers. His father Peter Attinger, Sr. is a 1972 Swiss men's champion. His brothers - Peter Jr., Bernhard, 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. [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. Erfolge des Curling Club Dübendorf (in German)
  4. "40 Jahre Curling-Club Dübendorf: Die Attinger-Saga". Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, Schweiz. 2002-09-18. Retrieved 2017-09-14.(in German)
  5. Sandra Ramstein-Attinger on the World Curling Federation database
  6. Auf der Spur des Familienerfolgs - Curling Club Wetzikon (in German)