Andreas Schwaller

Andreas Schwaller
birthday	July 8, 1970
place of birth	Recherswil , Switzerland
Career
nation	Switzerland
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2002 Salt Lake City World Curling Championship silver 2001 Lausanne European Curling Championship bronze 1993 Leukerbad silver 2001 Vierumäki gold 2006 Basel
last change: March 4, 2010

Andreas Schwaller (born July 8, 1970 in Recherswil ) is a Swiss curler .

Schwaller made his international debut in 1993 at the European Curling Championships in Leukerbad , where he and his team won the silver medal.

At the men's curling world championship in 2001 in Lausanne , the Swiss team - with Schwaller in third position - made it to the final, which it lost to Sweden for Skip Peter Lindholm . At the XIX. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Schwaller was the skip of the Swiss curling team. She won the bronze medal after a 7-3 victory against Sweden again around Skip Peter Lindholm. At the 2006 European Curling Championships in Basel , the Swiss team led by Skip Andreas Schwaller became European champions.

Schwaller has been the owner and managing director of a personal coaching company since 2007. In 2008 he resigned from elite sport. In 2011 Schwaller became national coach and sports director of the Swiss Curling Association.

Andreas Schwaller is married to the former German national curling player Heike Schwaller . The couple has two daughters.

successes

• 3rd place European Championship 1993
• 2nd place World Championship 2001
• 2nd place European Championship 2001
• 3rd place Olympic Winter Games 2002
• European champion 2006

Web links

• Andreas Schwaller on Worldcurling.org (English)