Binia Feltscher
| Binia Feltscher | |
|---|---|
| Born | Binia Feltscher 13 October 1978 (age 45) Chur, Switzerland |
| Team | |
| Curling club | CC Flims, Flims |
| Skip | Binia Feltscher |
| Third | Carole Howald |
| Second | Stefanie Berset |
| Lead | Larissa Hari |
| Alternate | Michèle Jäggi |
Curling career  | |
| Member Association |  Switzerland |
| World Championship appearances | 5 (2005, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018) |
| European Championship appearances | 7 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016) |
| Olympic appearances | 1 (2006) |
Binia Feltscher (born 13 October 1978 in Chur) is a Swiss curler[1] from Flims. She is the skip of the 2014 and 2016 World championship curling teams from Switzerland. From 2006 to 2013 she was known as Binia Feltscher-Beeli.
Career
Feltscher began curling in 1989. Since 2007 she has skipped and is right-handed.[2]
Feltscher was the third of the Swiss team skipped by Mirjam Ott at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where she won a silver medal. With Ott, Feltscher won silver medals at the European Curling Championships in 2004 and 2005 and a bronze in 2006. Feltscher left the Ott rink in 2007 to form her own team. She won another silver medal at the European Championships in 2009. Feltscher won the 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship by defeating Canada's Rachel Homan in the final. Later in the year she won a gold medal at the 2014 European Curling Championships.
On the World Curling Tour, Feltscher won her first event at the 2013 Glynhill Ladies International. Since then she has also won the 2013 Red Deer Curling Classic, the 2014 Women's Masters Basel, the 2015 International ZO Women's Tournament, and the 2016 Euronics European Masters.
Feltscher won another gold medal at the 2016 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, defeating Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa rink in the final.
Personal life
Feltscher is married and has two children.[3]
Teams
Grand Slam record
| Key | |
|---|---|
| C | Champion |
| F | Lost in Final |
| SF | Lost in Semifinal |
| QF | Lost in Quarterfinals |
| R16 | Lost in the round of 16 |
| Q | Did not advance to playoffs |
| T2 | Played in Tier 2 event |
| DNP | Did not participate in event |
| N/A | Not a Grand Slam event that season |
| Event | 2014–15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters | QF | Q | QF | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| Tour Challenge | N/A | Q | DNP | T2 | T2 | T2 |
| The National | N/A | DNP | SF | QF | DNP | |
| Canadian Open | QF | Q | DNP | DNP | DNP | |
| Players' | Q | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | |
| Champions Cup | N/A | DNP | DNP | Q | DNP |
References
- ^ "Binia Feltscher". World Curling Tour.
- ^ "Binia FELTSCHER-BEELI". ecc.curlit.com.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-07. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070829203517/http://www.worldcurlingtour.com/index.php?task=Teams&et=51&letter=F
External links
- Binia Feltscher on the World Curling database
- Binia Feltscher on the World Curling Tour database (archived)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Binia Feltscher". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
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