Nicole "Nici" Schwägli (born September 5, 1986) is a

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curler from

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. She is the former

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Alina Pätz Alina Pätz (born 8 March 1990 in Urdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss Curling, curler. She currently throws fourth stones on Team Silvana Tirinzoni, which represented Switzerland at the Curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics, 2022 Winter Olympics. She ...

rink and with this rink won the

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Career

Juniors

Schwägli won a gold medal representing Switzerland at the 2005

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, playing

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Michèle Jäggi Michèle Jäggi (born 22 September 1987) is a Swiss curler from Bern. She won gold at the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and won two bronze medals at the Winter Universiade. Career Jäggi is a former Swiss junior champion. She fi ...

. The team would represent Switzerland at the

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, where they would finish in fourth place overall. They would again represent Switzerland at the

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, finishing in sixth place.

Women's

Schwägli joined the newly formed

rink in 2013. Before this, she played lead for Michèle Jäggi and the team won the Kamloops Crown of Curling and the

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during the 2011–12 season. After a slow first season together, the 2014–15 season was a breakthrough year for Schwägli and teammates Alina Pätz, Nadine Lehmann and Marisa Winkelhausen. They won the 2014 Red Deer Curling Classic on the

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. Schwägli also qualified for the playoffs at the 2014 Masters

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event. In the second half of the season, they won the

and the

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, qualifying them for the

. Switzerland finished the round robin in first place with a 10–1 record. A victory over

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sent them to the final, where they once again faced Jones. Up 4–3 in the tenth end, Pätz drew to the button for the win, winning the World Championship gold medal and title. The following season, Team Pätz won the right to represent Switzerland at the

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, but they did not qualify for the playoffs, finishing 4–5. They also did not win any tour events during the season. They could not defend their title as world champions, as they lost in the Swiss championship to 2014 world champions Binia Feltscher. The 2016–17 season was more successful for the Swiss rink. They won the 2017 International Bernese Ladies Cup and made the final of the Glynhill Ladies International. They also won the Swiss championship and represented Switzerland at the

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. Despite starting 4–0, the team lost six of their last seven games, ultimately not qualifying for the playoffs. They ended their season by finishing second at the 2017 Euronics European Masters and making the semifinals of the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup. Team Pätz had multiple quarterfinal finishes during the

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. They won the 2017 Stockholm Ladies Cup in October, defeating Kim Eun-jung in the final. The team competed against the other top Swiss teams,

Silvana Tirinzoni Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is a four-time women's world champion skip (, , , ) and five-time Grand Slam champion. She is a former world junior champion and reigning European champion. Tirinzo ...

and Binia Feltscher, at the 2017 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials to choose the Swiss representative at the

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. The event was ultimately won by the Tirinzoni rink, who finished 6–0. After failing to win the Swiss championship in February, the Pätz team disbanded.

Personal life

Schwägli is employed as a medical practitioner.

Teams

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwägli, Nicole 1986 births Swiss female curlers Living people People from Bern-Mittelland District World curling champions Swiss curling champions Curlers from the canton of Bern 21st-century Swiss sportswomen