Manuela Siegrist

Manuela Siegrist
birthday	18th May 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Basel
Career
nation	Switzerland
society	CC Aarau
Playing position	Third
Playing hand	right
status	not active
Medal table
SM-J medals 2 × 0 × 1 × M-EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Swiss Junior Women Championships bronze Biel 2009 gold Biel 2010 gold Bern 2011 Mixed European Curling Championship gold 2011 Tärnby
last change: July 24, 2018

Manuela Siegrist (born May 18, 1990 in Basel ) is a Swiss curler . Most recently she played on the position of third in Skip Silvana Tirinzoni's team .

Career

Siegrist began her career at the Curling Club Basel and was the skip of a young team with Imogen Lehmann (third), Claudia Hug (second) and Janine Wyss (lead). After a bronze medal in 2009, she won the Swiss Junior Championships in 2010 and was able to repeat this success in 2011. As the winner, she was with her team at the Curling Junior World Championships in 2010 and 2010 and finished fourth ( 2010 ) and sixth ( 2011 ).

In 2011 she took part in the Mixed European Curling Championships and was able to win the gold medal in third with the team skipped by Thomas Lips . The following year she could not defend the title; the Swiss team skipped by Martin Rios with a winner in third only came in 8th place.

At the 2011 European Championships she was a substitute for Binia Feltscher-Beeli's team ; the team took 7th place. In her second participation in 2017 , she came to the playoffs in St. Gallen with Silvana Tirinzoni's team in front of a home crowd, but lost in the semi-finals to Scotland with Eve Muirhead and in the third place match to Italy with Diana Gaspari .

Manuela Sigrist has only participated in the World Championships once, namely in 2013 as a substitute in Silvana Tirinzoni's team. The Swiss took 5th place.

Together with Silvana Tirinzoni, Esther Neuenschwander , Marlene Albrecht and Jenny Perret she took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics. After four wins and five defeats in the Round Robin , she came fifth with the Swiss women's team.

Siegrist played on the World Curling Tour and won several competitions with the Tirinzoni team.

In spring 2018, she announced an indefinite break in her career due to persistent knee problems.

Web links

• Manuela Siegrist on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Team Tirinzoni

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manuela Siegrist , worldcurl.com. Retrieved December 1, 2017
2. ↑ Concentration of strength in Swiss women's curling: Silvana Tirinzoni and Alina Pätz team up. In: Aargauer Zeitung. May 2, 2018, accessed July 24, 2018 .