Peter Attinger Jr.

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Peter Attinger Jr.
Curler
 ♂
Born (1951-01-15) 15 January 1951 (age 71)
Team
Curling clubCC Dübendorf, Dübendorf[1]
Career
Member Association  Switzerland
World Championship
appearances		4 (1972, 1974, 1979, 1984)
European Championship
appearances		2 (, )
Other appearancesWorld Senior Championships: 3 (2005, 2006, 2013)
Medal record
Curling
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1979 Bern
Silver medal – second place 1984 Duluth
Bronze medal – third place 1974 Bern
European Championships
Gold medal – first place
Gold medal – first place
Swiss Men's Championship[2]
Gold medal – first place 1972
Gold medal – first place 1974
Gold medal – first place 1979
Gold medal – first place 1984
Silver medal – second place 1978 [3]
Silver medal – second place 1980
Silver medal – second place 1981
Silver medal – second place 1992
Bronze medal – third place 1982
Bronze medal – third place 1983
Bronze medal – third place 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 (, ) and medals at the World Men's Championships of 1979, and 1984 (silver) and 1974 (bronze).

Teams[]

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
1971–72 Bernhard Attinger Peter Attinger Jr. Mattias Neuenschwander Jürg Geiler SJCC 1972 1st place, gold medalist(s)[3]
(fourth) (skip) Bernhard Attinger Peter Attinger Jr. SMCC 1972 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WCC 1972 (5th)
1972–73 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Jürg Geiler SJCC 1973 1st place, gold medalist(s)[3]
1973–74 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Jürg Geiler SMCC 1974 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WCC 1974 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1976–77 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Ruedi Attinger 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1977–78 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Ruedi Attinger SMCC 1978 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1978–79 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Ruedi Attinger SMCC 1979 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WCC 1979 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1979–80 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Kurt Attinger SMCC 1980 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1980–81 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Ruedi Attinger SMCC 1981 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1981–82 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Ruedi Attinger Kurt Attinger SMCC 1982 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1982–83 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Ruedi Attinger Kurt Attinger SMCC 1983 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1983–84 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Werner Attinger Kurt Attinger SMCC 1984 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WCC 1984 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1984–85 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Werner Attinger Kurt Attinger 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1986–87 Peter Attinger Jr. Werner Attinger Martin Zürrer Kurt Attinger SMCC 1987 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1991–92 Bernhard Attinger Peter Attinger Jr. Werner Attinger Thomas Grendelmeier SMCC 1992 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2005 Peter Attinger Jr. Bernhard Attinger Mattias Neuenschwander Jürg Geiler Simon Roth WSCC 2005 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2006 Peter Attinger Jr. Mattias Neuenschwander Bernhard Attinger Fritz Widmer WSCC 2006 (5th)
2013 Werner Attinger Peter Attinger Jr. Tony Knobel Bernhard Attinger WSCC 2013 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Private life[]

Peter Attinger grew up in a family of curlers. His father is a 1972 Swiss men's champion (he was skip of a tem 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 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]

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. ^ a b c 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)

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