Swisscurling Association

Swisscurling Association
Founded	1942
president	Marco Faoro
societies	163
Members	8,000
Association headquarters	Bern , Switzerland
Homepage	www.curling.ch

SWISSCURLING Association , formerly the Swiss Curling Association , is the sole professional association for curling in Switzerland . The association is based in Bern .

tasks

• Promotion in the areas of competitive, young and popular sport, cultivating the reputation and recognition of the sport externally and sociability, camaraderie and fairness among the members.
• Organization of training and further education courses and implementation of championships in competitive, young and popular sports.

history

The Swisscurling Association has existed since 1942; the Swiss association was among other things a founding member of the International Curling Federation . The Swiss Jean Schild played a key role in founding a European curling association. The European Curling Federation was founded in 1975, based in Bern. Today 163 clubs belong to the association. They represent nearly 8,000 curlers. Switzerland has 50 halls and 20 open-air facilities.

Curling in Switzerland

The Swiss have been among the best in curling since the World Curling Federation was founded . There are approximately 8,000 active curlers, only Scotland and Canada have more active curlers.

At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , where curling was held as a demonstration competition, the team around Skip Urs Dick won the gold medal. The Lausanne Olympique team, led by skip Patrick Hürlimann , achieved their first Olympic victory at the 1998 Men's Olympic Winter Games in Nagano . In 2002 the Bern AAM team won the women's silver medal and the Biel Touring GATE the men's bronze medal, and in Turin 2006 the Flims PurePower women's team won silver.

In popular sport , a Swiss championship title is awarded every year in the categories active, seniors 1 + 2, women, mixed, veterans and open-air as well as wheelchair curling. Around 200 teams take part in the eliminations and the final rounds.

The youngsters are also particularly successful. The junior teams have won ten medals (3 × gold, 3 × silver and 4 × bronze) at world championships over the past twelve years.

Overall, the men were once Olympic champions, three times world champions and seven times European champions. The women became world champions twice and European champions four times.

→ See also: List of curling successes in Switzerland

Members

Canton	District	No.
Geneva	Geneva	1
Valais	Léman	2
Freiburg	Friborg	3
Neuchâtel	Neuchâtel
law	law
Bern	Zealand	4th
Freiburg
Basel-Country	Basel	5
Aargau	Aargau / Mittelland	6th
Geneva
Thurgau
Zurich
Bern	Bern country	7th
	Bern city	8th
	Bern Oberland East	9
	Bern Oberland West	10
Valais	Valais	11
Ticino	Ticino	13

Canton	District	No.
Vaud	Vaud (French)	11
	Valais (German)	12
Lucerne	Lucerne	14th
Nidwalden	Nidwalden	15th
Obwalden	Obwalden
Schwyz	Küssnacht am Rigi	16
train	train
Zurich	Zurich West	17th
	Zurich city	18th
	Zurich country	20th
	Zurich Oberland	19th
Glarus	Glarus
Schaffhausen	Schaffhausen	21st
Thurgau	Thurgau
St. Gallen	St. Gallen	22nd
Appenzell Innerrhoden	Appenzell
Freiburg	Northern Grisons	23
Grisons	Engadine	24

Web links

• Swisscurling Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swisscurling Association: Statutes ( Memento of the original dated February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)