Binia Feltscher | |
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Curler | |
Born |
Binia Feltscher 13 October 1978 (age 38) Chur, Switzerland |
Team | |
Curling club | CC Flims, Flims |
Skip | Binia Feltscher |
Third | Irene Schori |
Second | Franziska Kaufmann |
Lead | Carole Howald |
Alternate | Martina Baumann |
Career | |
World Championship appearances |
4 (2005, 2010, 2014, 2016) |
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 from Flims. She is the skip of the 2014 and 2016 World championship curling teams from Switzerland.
Feltscher began curling in 1989. Since 2007 she has skipped and is right-handed.
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.
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 and the 2014 Women's Masters Basel.
Feltscher is married and has two children.