Valeria Spälty (born 24 June 1983 in
Glarus
Glarus (; ; ; ; ) is the capital of the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Since 1 January 2011, the municipality of Glarus incorporates the former municipalities of Ennenda, Netstal and Riedern.[Swiss
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curler.
Spälty started curling in 1992. She plays second for
Mirjam Ott
Mirjam Ott (born 27 January 1972 in Bern, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss curler who lives in Laax, Switzerland. She is the 2012 World Curling Champion skip. She is the skip (captain) of the Swiss Olympic Curling Team. She has participated in s ...
and is right-handed.
Valeria Spälty
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She won the silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games 2006 in Turin with Mirjam Ott, Binia Beeli, Manuela Kormann, and Michele Moser. She is the youngest Curling Olympic medal winner in the world.
Since 2007 Spälty and Mirjam Ott have been playing for the Curling Club Davos with two other players. With this team Spälty won the bronze medal in 2006 at the Europeans in Basel, SUI and finished in fourth place at the 2007 European Curling Championships. In March 2008 they won the bronze medal at the 2008 Vernon World Championships.
Spälty has played in 86 Games at Junior Worlds, Worlds, Europeans and Olympic Games.
She is studying Sport science, Psychology and Education at the University of Berne.
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1983 births
Living people
Swiss female curlers
Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic curlers for Switzerland
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in curling
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Continental Cup of Curling participants
European curling champions
Swiss curling champions
University of Bern alumni
Sportspeople from Glarus
21st-century Swiss sportswomen
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