Toni Müller

Toni Müller
birthday	May 11, 1984
Career
nation	Switzerland
Playing position	Alternate
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × Mixed World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2010 Vancouver Curling Mixed Doubles World Championship gold 2008 Vierumäki gold 2009 Cortina d'Ampezzo European Curling Championship silver 2009 Aberdeen bronze 2010 Champéry Junior World Curling Championships silver 2004 Trois-Rivières
last change: February 17, 2017

Toni Müller (born May 11, 1984 ) is a Swiss curler from Frutigen .

Career

Toni Müller started at the Lenk Curling Club when he was young . He celebrated his first major international success in curling at the age of 20 when he and the team around Reto Jetzer won the silver medal behind Sweden at the 2004 Junior World Curling Championships in Canada. The following year he was the skip of the CC Lenk team that won the Swiss Junior Championship. At the Junior World Championships in Italy they represented Switzerland and reached shared 5th place.

At the 2007 European Curling Championships in Füssen he was the skip of the Swiss senior team with Ralph Stöckli as an experienced replacement. After the playoff defeat against Scotland they finished fourth. At the World Cup in the USA , he was a replacement. Switzerland came in penultimate place among the 12 participants. The following year he did not appear in the European Championship and at the World Cup in Canada , the team reached a 4th place again with him as a substitute.

Toni Müller had the greatest personal successes in mixed together with Irene Schori , with whom he won the Curling Mixed Doubles World Championship twice in a row in 2008 and 2009 . It was the first two events of a mixed World Cup. In their third and last joint appearance at the 2010 World Cup, the two were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Müller won his first team medal at the 2009 European Curling Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland . This time he was a replacement in the team led by Ralph Stöckli. In the final, Switzerland was defeated by the Swedish team around Skip Niklas Edin in the 11th end and took silver. At the Olympic competition in Vancouver in the same season, the same team around Stöckli competed and again achieved bronze.

The following year he was again a substitute for the Swiss team at the European Championships in Champéry , this time with Christof Schwaller . The bronze medal was won at the home European championships. He was not present at the 2011 World Cup because he had started training at the police school. Then he was used again at the home World Cup in 2012 . At the tournament in Basel he was the first lead in Jan Hauser's team , which had been put together by the Grasshoppers Club Zurich especially for the 2014 Olympic Games . After a disappointing performance, Müller was replaced in the last game. Switzerland came in 9th in the final statement.

Toni Müller is a country hunter (village policeman) in the Bernese Oberland. He is married to the curler Carmen Schäfer .

swell

1. ^ "No longer just a hobby" , Curling Club Lenk, October 16, 2004
2. ↑ Big anniversary tournament of curlers , Simmental newspaper, January 27, 2011
3. ^ The Norwegians, the measure of all things , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 7, 2007
4. ↑ Skip Thomas Lips alone in the house , Andreas Fretz, Aargauer Zeitung, February 23, 2011
5. ↑ GC curlers form a team with Olympic ambitions , Deborah Bucher, Tagesanzeiger, May 13, 2011
6. ↑ The Swiss curlers end the home World Cup with a win , Aargauer Zeitung, April 5, 2012
7. ↑ Your friend is a country hunter , Blick, March 27, 2012
8. ↑ Curling for beginners (event information), Arena Adelboden, February 3, 2017

Web links

• Toni Müller on Worldcurling.org (English)