Patrick Hürlimann (born 9 July 1963) is a
Swiss curler, Olympic champion, and Vice-President of the
World Curling Federation
The World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with offices in Perth, Scotland. It was formed out of the International Curling Federation (ICF), when the push for Olympic Winter Sport status was made. ...
(WCF). He received a gold medal at the
1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in the ...
in
Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
*** Nagano Universi ...
.
["1998 Winter Olympics – Nagano, Japan – Curling"]
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He has received three medals at the
World Curling Championships
The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and mixed doubles championships, as well as men's a ...
as skip for the Swiss team.
As head of the Marketing and Communications Committee of the WCF, Patrick Hürlimann developed the system of points used for the ranking of nations that participate in international curling bonspiels.
In 2010, Hürlimann became Vice-President of the WCF.
Hürlimann was inducted into the
WCF Hall of Fame The WCF Hall of Fame is an international curling Hall of Fame that was established by the World Curling Federation
The World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with offices in Perth, Scotland. It wa ...
in 2014.
Hürlimann is married to fellow curler
Janet Hürlimann.
References
1963 births
Living people
Swiss male curlers
Olympic curlers of Switzerland
Curlers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in curling
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
20th-century Swiss people
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