Valeria Spälty

Valeria Spälty (born 24 June 1983 in Glarus) is a Swiss curler.

Valeria Spälty
Medal record
Curling
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2006 Turin Team
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Vernon Team
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2004 Sofia A Group
Silver medal – second place 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen A Group
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Basel A Group
Gold medal – first place 2008 Örnsköldsvik A Group

Spälty started curling in 1992. She plays second for Mirjam Ott and is right-handed.[1] She won the silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games 2006 in Turin with Mirjam Ott, Binia Beeli, Manuela Kormann, and Michele Moser. She is the youngest Curling Olympic medal winner in the world.

Since 2007 Spälty and Mirjam Ott have been playing for the Curling Club Davos with two other players. With this team Spälty won the bronze medal in 2006 at the Europeans in Basel, SUI and finished in fourth place at the 2007 European Curling Championships. In March 2008 they won the bronze medal at the 2008 Vernon World Championships.

Spälty has played in 86 Games at Junior Worlds, Worlds, Europeans and Olympic Games.

She is studying Sport science, Psychology and Education at the University of Berne.

Teams
Season Skip Third Second Lead Events
2002–03 Valeria SpältyJaqueline GreinerPetra FeldmannUrsina Punchera2002 WJCC (5th)
2003–04 Valeria SpältyJaqueline GreinerPetra FeldmannUrsina Punchera
2004–05 Mirjam OttBinia Feltscher-BeeliValeria SpältyMichele Moser2004 ECC 2nd place, silver medalist(s), 2005 WWCC (7th), 2005 Olympic Trials 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2005–06 Mirjam OttBinia Feltscher-BeeliValeria SpältyMichele Moser2005 ECC 2nd place, silver medalist(s), 2006 OG 2nd place, silver medalist(s), 2006 National 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2006–07 Mirjam OttBinia Feltscher-BeeliValeria SpältyJanine Greiner2006 ECC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2007–08 Mirjam OttCarmen SchäferValeria SpältyJanine Greiner2007 ECC (4th), 2008 WWCC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s), 2008 National 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2008–09 Mirjam OttCarmen SchäferValeria SpältyJanine Greiner2008 ECC 1st place, gold medalist(s), 2009 WWCC (5th), 2009 National 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References
  1. Valeria Spälty, ecc.curlit.com
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