Kurt Attinger

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.

Kurt Attinger
Curler
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Team
Curling clubCC Dübendorf, Dübendorf[1]
Curling career
Member Association  Switzerland
World Championship
appearances		1 (1984)
European Championship
appearances		1 (1984)
Medal record
Curling
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1984 Duluth
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1984 Morzine
Swiss Men's Championship[2]
Gold medal – first place 1984
Silver medal – second place 1980 [3]
Bronze medal – third place 1982
Bronze medal – third place 1983
Bronze medal – third place 1987

Teams
Season Skip Third Second Lead Events
1973–74 Bernhard AttingerKurt AttingerRuedi AttingerLouis KellerSJCC 1974 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WJCC 1974 1st place, gold medalist(s)
(unofficial)[3]
1979–80 Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerMattias NeuenschwanderKurt AttingerSMCC 1980 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1981–82 Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerRuedi AttingerKurt AttingerSMCC 1982 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1982–83 Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerRuedi AttingerKurt AttingerSMCC 1983 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1983–84 Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerWerner AttingerKurt AttingerSMCC 1984 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WCC 1984 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1984–85 Peter Attinger Jr.Bernhard AttingerWerner AttingerKurt AttingerECC 1984 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1986–87 Peter Attinger Jr.Werner AttingerMartin ZürrerKurt AttingerSMCC 1987 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

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]

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)
  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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