Binia Feltscher


Binia Feltscher is a Swiss retired curler from Flims. She was 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.
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.
At the 2018 World Women's Championship Feltscher missed the playoffs, finishing in eighth place.
On 3 March 2020 Feltscher announced her retirement from competitive curling.

Personal life

Feltscher is married and has two children.

Teams

Grand Slam record

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