Amédéé Biner
| Amédéé Biner | |
|---|---|
| ♂ | |
| Team | |
| Curling club | CC Zermatt[1][2] |
Curling career  | |
| Member Association |  Switzerland |
| European Championship appearances | 1 (1983) |
Medal record | |
Amédéé Biner is a former Swiss curler. He played skip position on the Swiss rink that won 1983 European Curling Championships.
Teams
[edit]| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
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| 1983–84 | Amédéé Biner | Walter Bielser | Alex Aufdenblatten | Alfred Paci | ECC 1983 
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| 1995–96 | Willy Bayard | Amédéé Biner | Peter Anton Biner | Rita Rieser | SSCC 1996 [2]
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Private life
[edit]Biner is a baker, and is the former president of the Swiss Bakers Confectioners Association (German: ehemaliger Präsident des Schweizerischen Bäcker-Konditorenmeister-Verbands).[3][4] He is former owner of a bakery company in Zermatt named "Bäckerei-Konditorei Biner" and founded in 1932 by his father Alfons Biner, who was a competitive curler too, and is a four-time Swiss men's curling champion.[5]
In 1994 he offered the "Praliné Cup" for the open air curling tournament "Scottish Week Curling in Zermatt". Today, the awards for this final competition are indeed the finest Swiss chocolates supplied by the Biner bakery company. The January 2018 competition marked the 25th anniversary of the Praliné Cup.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Curling Club Zermatt(in German)
- ^ a b Erfolge - Curling Club Zermatt(in German)
- ^ "Schweizerischer Bäcker-Confiseurmeister-Verband - "Es ist eine Win-Win-Situation"" (in German). January 23, 2019.
- ^ An der Generalversammlung des Panathlonclubs Oberwallis wurde der Vorstand für ein weiteres Jahr bestätigt.(in German)
- ^ Curling Schweizermeisterschaft - www.ccflims.ch - 3. bis 20. Februar 2016, Flims Archived 2019-08-03 at the Wayback Machine(in German) (at last page list of all Swiss curling champion teams: men's 1943—2015 and women's 1964—2015; before 2003 team line-ups shown in reverse order: alternate (if exists), lead, second, third, skip)
- ^ History | Scottish Week Curling in Zermatt
External links
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