Sixten Totzek (born 5 January 2000) is a

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curler from

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. He currently skips the German National Men's Curling Team.

Career

Totzek played in four

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from 2016 to 2019 as third and fourth for Team Germany. In 2016 and 2017, he played third for Marc Muskatewitz and in 2018 and 2019, he threw fourth stones for

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. The team lost the qualifying games in 2016 and 2017 before winning the bronze medal game at the

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, sending them to the

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. At the championship, the team just missed the playoffs with a 4–5 record after losing their final round robin draw to Canada's

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. Their fifth place finish earned the team a spot at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships without having to qualify through the B Championship. They did not have a good performance at the 2019 championship, finishing with a 3–6 round robin record and being relegated to the B Championship for the following season. They would, however, qualify again through the 2019 World Junior-B Curling Championships in December 2019 to secure a spot at the

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. There, Totzek would have his best finish to date, qualifying for the playoffs for the first time with a 6–3 record. They then lost to Canada's Jacques Gauthier in the semifinal 7–4 and Scotland's

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in the bronze medal game 6–5, settling for fourth place. Totzek competed in his first

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in 2018 as third for the German team. There, his team qualified for the playoffs as the fourth seed with a 5–4 record. They then lost to Sweden's

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6–3 in the semifinal and Italy's

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8–6 in the bronze medal game, finishing fourth. Despite not winning a medal, the team did qualify Germany for the 2019 World Men's Curling Championship, which Totzek did not participate in. The next season, the team played in the

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, finishing with a 3–6 record. The team was set to represent Germany at the

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before the event was cancelled due to the

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. For the 2020–21 season, Totzek began skipping the German team. His team represented Germany at the

2021 World Men's Curling Championship The 2021 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 2021 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from April 2 to 11 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Canada. Th ...

in Calgary,

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where they finished with a 4–9 record.

Personal life

Totzek is a student.

Teams

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Totzek, Sixten 2000 births Living people German male curlers People from Rastatt People from Baden-Baden Sportspeople from Karlsruhe (region) 21st-century German people