Andrea Pilzer
Andrea Pilzer 
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| birthday | 27th August 1991 (age 29) | |||||||||
| place of birth | Trent | |||||||||
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| society | Curling Cembra | |||||||||
| Playing position | Second / replacement | |||||||||
| Playing hand | right | |||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||
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| last change: January 5th, 2018 | ||||||||||
Andrea Pilzer (born August 27, 1991 in Trento ) is an Italian curler . He currently plays as a second or substitute in Joël Retornaz's team .
Career
Pilzer began his international career at the European Junior Challenge 2009, the qualifying tournament for the Junior World Championship at the time . As third in the Italian team around Skip Guido Fassina, he finished seventh. In the following four years he took part in this competition three times as the skip of the Italian juniors and won in 2012 and 2013. He therefore competed in the following Junior World Championships and finished ninth (2012) and sixth (2013).
He took part in the European Championships in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 as third, second, lead or substitute for the Italian team ; the best result was fourth place in 2014 . He played his first world championship in 2015 as a lead in Joël Retornaz's team; the team took tenth place. In 2017 she came in ninth place with Pilzer as second and in 2018 in the same position in eighth place.
At the qualifying tournament for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games , he played as a substitute in the team led by Retornaz and secured one of the two remaining starting places for himself and the Italian team (skip: Joël Retornaz, third: Amos Mosaner , second: Simone Gonin , lead: Daniele Ferrazza ) for the men's Olympic tournament. In Pyeongchang he was used in two games and came with the Italian team after three wins and six losses in the Round Robin in ninth place.
Web links
- Andrea Pilzer on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Profile on coni.it
Individual evidence
- ↑ Italy's Men make history: the team beat Denmark in Pilsen and qualify for PyeongChang. In: coni.it. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, December 10, 2017, accessed on January 6, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Pilzer, Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trent |