Carmen Küng
Carmen Küng 
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| birthday | January 30, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Solothurn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | Davos CC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Alternate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Carmen Küng (born January 30, 1978 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss curler .
She began her sporting career at CC Solothurn. In 1996 she reached fourth place in the Junior World Championships in Red Deer in the Canadian province of Alberta as runner-up in Skip Nadja Heuer's team . Two years later they came fourth again at the European Championships. She won her first medal at the European Championships in 2000 with third place. The following year she reached the World Curling Championship for the first time with the same team and ended up in the disappointing last place at the home World Cup with nine defeats.
One of her greatest successes was winning the bronze medal at the 2008 World Curling Championships in Vernon for Skip Mirjam Ott's team . Also in 2008 she won the gold medal at the 2008 European Curling Championship .
At the 2009 European Curling Championships in Aberdeen , Küng won the silver medal in Mirjam Ott's team. The team was the first to complete the Round Robin. The page playoff game against Denmark could be won, but lost the final against Germany 5-7.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she was in the small finals with her team and played for the bronze medal. She lost the game for third place against the Chinese team led by Skip Wang Bingyu 6:12. At the 2012 World Cup in Lethbridge , she won the gold medal in the final against Sweden.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she and her team were again in the small final, but lost to opponents from Great Britain 5-6.
Web links
- Carmen Küng on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Carmen Küng in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Carmen Küng at Swiss Olympians
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| SURNAME | Küng, Carmen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solothurn |