Thomas Dufour | ||||||||||||||||
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Curler ♂ | ||||||||||||||||
Born |
February 12, 1973 Chamonix, France |
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Team | ||||||||||||||||
Curling club | Chamonix CC, Chamonix | |||||||||||||||
Skip | Thomas Dufour | |||||||||||||||
Fourth | Tony Angiboust | |||||||||||||||
Second | Lionel Roux | |||||||||||||||
Lead | Wilfrid Coulot | |||||||||||||||
Alternate | Jérémy Frarier | |||||||||||||||
Career | ||||||||||||||||
World Championship appearances |
8 (2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) | |||||||||||||||
European Championship appearances |
15 (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,2012) | |||||||||||||||
Olympic appearances |
2 (2002, 2010) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Thomas Dufour (born February 12, 1973) is a French curler. He currently skips the French national team.
Thomas Dufour has played in:
-5 World Junior Curling Championships (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994).
-15 European Curling Championships (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).
-8 World Curling Championships (2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).
-2 Olympic Games, the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Dufour's best placing at the World Championships was a fifth-place finish in 2008 an 2011. At the 2010 Olympics, the team finished 7th, where they made a terrific shot to win their first game against china.
Dufour won two medals in his junior career. In 1992, he won the silver medal at the World Juniors, playing lead for Jan Henri Ducroz. In 1993, he won the bronze medal playing third for Spencer Mugnier.
He also won a bronze medal at the double mixte in 2011 coaching Pauline Jeanneret and Amaury Pernette.
In 2008 he won the Colin Campbell Award (best spormantship during the worlds)