Ralph Stöckli

Ralph Stöckli
birthday	July 23, 1976
place of birth	Uzwil
Career
nation	Switzerland
society	Basel-Regio Curling Club
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2010 Vancouver World Curling Championship silver 2003 Winnipeg European Curling Championship gold 2006 Basel silver 2009 Aberdeen Junior World Curling Championships bronze 1994 Sofia silver 1996 Red Deer gold 1997 Karuizawa bronze 1998 Thunder Bay
last change: February 27, 2010

Ralph Stöckli (born July 23, 1976 in Uzwil ) is a Swiss curler . He is a trained sports teacher and lives in Bern .

His first big success was winning the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Sofia in 1994 (as a substitute). In 1996 he finished second in Red Deer and won the Junior World Championship in Karuizawa, Japan in 1997 . His last tournament in the junior class was the 1998 World Cup in Thunder Bay , where he won the bronze medal. After finishing seventh at the 2002 World Cup in Bismarck , Stöckli won the silver medal at the 2003 World Cup in Winnipeg .

Stöckli was the skip of the Swiss team at the curling tournament of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Pinerolo , but could not qualify for the semi-finals. At the national level, Stöckli was the Swiss Junior Champion four times in a row between 1994 and 1997. In 2002, 2005 and 2007 he won the title of Swiss champion. In December 2006, Ralph Stöckli successfully strengthened Andreas Schwaller's team in the third position at the European Championships in Basel. With the final victory against Scotland they were able to win the European championship for Switzerland. At the 2007 World Cup, Stöckli narrowly missed the podium. Instead of Switzerland, Germany moved into the semi-finals.

At the 2009 European Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland, Ralph Stöckli and his team won the silver medal. In the final he lost to the Swedish team around Skip Niklas Edin . The following year he succeeded in taking revenge at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , when the Swiss defeated Edin's Swedes in the bronze medal game.

Web links

• Team Stöckli
• Ralph Stöckli on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Ralph Stöckli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )