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Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann
Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann (born 30 September 1993 as Briar Hürlimann) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. She is currently the alternate on Team Corrie Hürlimann. She won a World Women's Championship for Switzerland playing lead for Team Silvana Tirinzoni in 2023. Career Schwaller-Hürlimann first represented Switzerland on the international stage at the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships as third for Manuela Siegrist. They lost the tiebreaker to Sweden's Jonna McManus. She returned the following year at the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships, playing third for Melanie Barbezat. They were less successful than the previous year, finishing with a 3–6 record. After not representing Switzerland in 2013, Schwaller-Hürlimann made back to back appearances at the World Juniors. In 2014, they lost the tiebreaker 7–6 to Sweden's Isabella Wranå. In 2015, they won the bronze medal after defeating Wranå's Swedish team. Also in 2015, she finished fifth at the 2015 Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zug, Switzerland
, neighboring_municipalities = Cham, Baar, Walchwil, Steinhausen, Unterägeri , twintowns = Fürstenfeld (Austria), Kalesija (Bosnia-Herzegowina) Zug (Standard German: , Alemannic German: ; french: Zoug it, Zugo rm, Zug New Latin: ''Tugium'')named in the 16th century is the largest town and capital of the Swiss canton of Zug in Switzerland. Its name originates from the fishing vocabulary; in the Middle Ages it referred to the right to ''pull up'' fishing nets and hence to the right to fish. The municipality had a total population of in . The official language of Zug is the Swiss variety of Standard German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. History Prehistory The oldest evidence of humans in the area trace back to 14,000 BC. There have been Paleolithic finds on the north bank of Lake Zug, which come from nomadic hunters and gatherers. Archaeologists have also found over forty lake-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recherswil
Recherswil is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt, in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Recherswil is first mentioned in 1278 as ''Richirswile''. Geography Recherswil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.1%. Out of the forested land, 20.2% of the total land area is heavily foreste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Players' Championship
The 2016 Players' Championship was held from April 12 to 17 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, Ontario. It was the sixth men's and fifth women's Grand Slam of the 2015–16 World Curling Tour. Newfoundland's Brad Gushue rink won their first men's title while Scotland's Eve Muirhead won her third women's title. Men Teams The teams are listed as follows: Round Robin Standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' Round Robin Results Draw 1 ''Tuesday, April 12, 7:00 pm'' Draw 2 ''Wednesday, April 13, 8:30 am'' Draw 3 ''Wednesday, April 13, 12:00 pm'' Draw 4 ''Wednesday, April 13, 3:30 pm'' Draw 5 ''Wednesday, April 13, 7:00 pm'' Draw 6 ''Thursday, April 14, 8:30 am'' Draw 7 ''Thursday, April 14, 12:00 pm'' Draw 8 ''Thursday, April 14, 3:30 pm'' Draw 9 ''Thursday, April 14, 7:00 pm'' Draw 11 ''Friday, April 15, 12:00 pm'' Draw 13 ''Friday, April 15, 7:00 pm'' Tiebreaker ''Saturday, April 16, 8:30 am'' Playoffs Quarterfinals ''Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Pätz
Alina Pätz (born 8 March 1990 in Urdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss curler. She currently throws fourth stones on Team Silvana Tirinzoni. She is a five-time world champion and was the alternate player for the Mirjam Ott rink, which represented Switzerland at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Career Playing as the alternate for the Ott rink, Pätz won a gold medal at the 2012 World Women's Curling Championship and a bronze medal at the 2013 European Curling Championships. Pätz also won a silver medal at the 2010 European Mixed Curling Championship (playing lead for Claudio Pätz) and a gold medal at the 2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship (with Sven Michel). Pätz started skipping her own rink in 2013. The 2014–15 season was a breakthrough year for Pätz and teammates Nadine Lehmann, Marisa Winkelhausen and Nicole Schwägli. They won the 2014 Red Deer Curling Classic on the World Curling Tour, which was Pätz's first tour win. Pätz also qualified for the playoffs at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015–16 Curling Season
The 2015–16 curling season began in August 2015 and ended in May 2016. ''Note: In events with two genders, the men's tournament winners will be listed before the women's tournament winners.'' Curling Canada sanctioned events This section lists events sanctioned by and/or conducted by Curling Canada (formerly the Canadian Curling Association). The following events in bold have been confirmed by Curling Canada as are part of the 2015–16 Season of Champions programme. Other events ''Note: Events that have not been placed on the CCA's list of sanctioned events are listed here. If an event is listed on the CCA's final list for the 2015–16 curling season, it will be moved up to the "CCA-sanctioned events" section.'' World Curling Tour ''Grand Slam events in bold. :''See also List of teams on the 2015–16 World Curling Tour'' Men's events Women's events Mixed doubles events WCT Order of Merit rankings WCT Money List Curling Canada MA Cup The MA Cup is awarded to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 World Mixed Curling Championship
The 2015 World Mixed Curling Championship was held from September 12 to 19 at the Curling Bahn Allmend in Bern, Switzerland. Teams Group A Group B Group C Group D Round robin standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' Round robin results All draw times are listed in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2 UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2020-11-08T23:41:45+02:00. This time is used in: As standard time (year-round) ''Principal cities: Cairo, Pretoria, Cape ...). Group A Saturday, September 12 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 3 16:00 Sunday, September 13 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 7 16:00 Monday, September 14 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 16:00 Tuesday, September 15 Draw 14 12:00 Draw 16 20:00 Wednesday, September 16 Draw 18 12:00 Draw 20 20:00 Thursday, September 17 Draw 22 12:00 Draw 24 20:00 Group B Saturday, September 12 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 4 20:30 Sunday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Wranå
Isabella Marianne Peggy Wranå (born 22 June 1997) is a Swedish curler. She is a former skip of the Swedish junior women's team, with whom she won a World Junior championship in 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Career Juniors Wranå has skipped the Swedish team in four World Junior Curling Championships, in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. In 2014, she led her team of Jennie Wåhlin, Elin Lövstrand, Fanny Sjöberg and Almida de Val to a fourth-place finish, after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia. In 2015, she and teammates Wåhlin, Johanna Heldin, Sjöberg and Johanna Höglund again finished fourth after this time losing to Switzerland in the bronze medal game. She was back at it in 2017 when her and teammates Wåhlin, de Val and Sjöberg won the gold medal, defeating Scotland's Sophie Jackson in the final, and lost just two round robin games in the process. The next year the same team went undefeated in the round robin, but ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 World Junior Curling Championships
The 2014 World Junior Curling Championships were held from February 26 to March 5 at the Waldhaus Arena in Flims, Switzerland. Men Teams The teams are listed as follows: Round-robin standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' Round-robin results Draw 1 ''Wednesday, February 26, 12:00'' Draw 2 ''Wednesday, February 26, 20:00'' Draw 3 ''Thursday, February 27, 14:00'' Draw 4 ''Friday, February 28, 8:00'' Draw 5 ''Friday, February 28, 16:00'' Draw 6 ''Saturday, March 1, 9:00'' Draw 7 ''Saturday, March 1, 19:00'' Draw 8 ''Sunday, March 2, 12:00'' Draw 9 ''Sunday, March 2, 20:00'' Tiebreaker ''Monday, March 3, 14:00'' Playoffs 1 vs. 2 ''Tuesday, March 4, 12:00'' 3 vs. 4 ''Tuesday, March 4, 12:00'' Semifinal ''Tuesday, March 4, 18:00'' Bronze-medal game ''Wednesday, March 5, 13:00'' Final ''Wednesday, March 5, 13:00'' Women Teams The teams are listed as follows: Round-robin standings ''Final Round Robin Standings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Barbezat
Melanie Barbezat (born 10 August 1991) is a Swiss retired curler from Zollikofen. From 2018 to 2022, she played lead for the Silvana Tirinzoni rink that won three consecutive World Women's Curling Championship titles in , and . The team also won the 2019 Champions Cup Grand Slam of Curling event, and competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics where they placed fourth. Career Barbezat's first experience at a major international event came in 2012, when she won the right to represent Switzerland at the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships in Östersund, Sweden, an event which saw several future Olympic, World and European medallists appear, including Sara McManus, Lauren Gray, Anna Sidorova and Victoria Moiseeva. Barbezat's team finished the Round Robin with a 3–6 record, outside the playoff positions. After her appearance at the World Junior Championships, Barbezat made a move to join Michèle Jäggi on the World Curling Tour playing lead. The team won the 2012 International ZO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 World Junior Curling Championships
The 2012 World Junior Curling Championships was held from March 3 to 11 at the Z-Hallen in Östersund, Sweden. Östersund previously hosted the World Junior Curling Championships in 1999 and in 2008. In the men's final, Canada's Brendan Bottcher defeated Sweden's Rasmus Wranå in eight ends with a score of 10–4. Scotland's Kyle Smith secured the men's bronze medal with a 7–3 win over Norway's Markus Høiberg. In the women's final, Scotland's Hannah Fleming defeated the Czech Republic's Zuzana Hájková in an extra end with a score of 6–5. Russia's Anna Sidorova won over Sweden's Sara McManus in nine ends to win the women's bronze medal with a score of 7–4. Canadian women's skip Jocelyn Peterman and Norwegian men's lead Sander Rølvåg were awarded with the 2012 World Curling Federation World Junior Sportsmanship Awards. They were chosen by fellow players at the World Junior Championships based on their values of sportsmanship and fair play. As the last placed Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonna McManus
Jonna may refer to: * Jonna Adlerteg (born 1995), Swedish gymnast *Jonna Andersson (born 1993), Swedish football defender *Jonna Fitzgerald, American beauty pageant titleholder and musical entertainer *Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, American author whose works include oral histories and biographies *Jonna Lee (actress) (born 1963), American television and film actress * Jonna Lee (singer) (born 1981), Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer and visual director *Jonna Liljendahl (born 1970), Swedish former child actress, played Madicken (by Astrid Lindgren) *Jonna Mannion (born 1988), American reality TV personality * Jonna Mazet (born 1967), American epidemiologist, Executive Director of the University of California, Davis One Health Institute *Jonna Mendes (born 1979), former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States * Jonna Mendez (born 1945), the former Chief of Disguise in the CIA’s Office of Technical Service *Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born 1955), Swedish actress * Jonna Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuela Siegrist
Manuela Siegrist (born 18 May 1990 in Basel) is a Swiss curler. Playing third for Silvana Tirinzoni's team which represented Switzerland at the 2018 Winter Olympics, she stepped away from the game at the end of the 2017–18 season. Personal life Siegrist is currently a masters student in economics at the University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ....2018 Continental Cup Media Guide References External links Team Tirinzoni's Home Page* Swiss female curlers Living people 1990 births Sportspeople from Basel-Stadt Swiss curling champions Continental Cup of Curling participants Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Switzerland 21st-century Swiss women {{Switzerland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
