Kurt Attinger

Kurt Attinger was a Swiss curler. He played lead position on the Swiss rink that won the 1984 European Curling Championships and a silver medal at the 1984 World Men's Championship.

Kurt Attinger
Curler  ♂
Team
Curling club	CC Dübendorf, Dübendorf[1]
Curling career
Member Association	Switzerland
World Championship appearances	1 (1984)
European Championship appearances	1 (1984)
Medal record Curling World Championships 1984 Duluth European Championships 1984 Morzine Swiss Men's Championship[2] 1984 1980 [3] 1982 1983 1987

Teams

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Events
1973–74	Bernhard Attinger	Kurt Attinger	Ruedi Attinger	Louis Keller	SJCC 1974 WJCC 1974 (unofficial)[3]
1979–80	Peter Attinger Jr.	Bernhard Attinger	Mattias Neuenschwander	Kurt Attinger	SMCC 1980
1981–82	Peter Attinger Jr.	Bernhard Attinger	Ruedi Attinger	Kurt Attinger	SMCC 1982
1982–83	Peter Attinger Jr.	Bernhard Attinger	Ruedi Attinger	Kurt Attinger	SMCC 1983
1983–84	Peter Attinger Jr.	Bernhard Attinger	Werner Attinger	Kurt Attinger	SMCC 1984 WCC 1984
1984–85	Peter Attinger Jr.	Bernhard Attinger	Werner Attinger	Kurt Attinger	ECC 1984
1986–87	Peter Attinger Jr.	Werner Attinger	Martin Zürrer	Kurt Attinger	SMCC 1987

Private life

Attinger grew up in a family of curlers. His father Peter Sr. is a 1972 Swiss men's champion. His brothers - Peter Jr., Bernhard, Ruedi and Werner are curlers too. They won Swiss and European championships and Worlds medals when they played on Peter Jr.'s team. His nephew (Peter Jr.'s son) Felix is the skip of a team that won the Swiss men's silver in 2017 and bronze in 2016, with Peter Jr. coaching this team.^[4] Bernhard's daughter, Sandra Ramstein-Attinger^[5] is a competitive curler too. She played in three Women's Worlds with teams skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni and Binia Feltscher-Beeli.^[6]

Kurt Attinger died in 2011 of cancer.^[7]