Christiaan Offringa is a Dutch curler from the Curling Club Utrecht. He played

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for the Dutch Junior team at the 2001 and 2003 "B" World Junior Championships, finishing 7th both times on a team skipped by

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. Offringa made his

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debut in

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when he played lead for Reg Wiebe's 19th place team. He returned to the European Championships in 2006, remaining at lead while Wiebe and Steve van der Cammen swapped at

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and skip. They improved slightly, finishing in 17th place.

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* Dutch male curlers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{netherlands-curling-bio-stub