Michael Brunner

Michael Brunner
Curler
Born (1995-02-11) 11 February 1995 (age 29)
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Team
Curling clubCC Bern Zähringer,[1]
Bern, SUI
SkipMichael Brunner
ThirdAnthony Petoud
SecondRomano Meier
LeadAndreas Gerlach
Curling career
Member Association Switzerland
World Championship
appearances		1 (2022)
European Championship
appearances		1 (2019)
Medal record
Men's Curling
Representing  Switzerland
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Helsingborg
Swiss Men's Championship[2]
Gold medal – first place 2020 Thun
Gold medal – first place 2022 Geneva-Thônex
Silver medal – second place 2014 Schaffhausen
Silver medal – second place 2018 Flims
Silver medal – second place 2019 Thun
Silver medal – second place 2021 Arlesheim
Silver medal – second place 2023 Geneva-Thônex
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Flims
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Geneva-Thônex

Michael Brunner (born 11 February 1995 in St. Gallen, Switzerland) is a Swiss curler[3] from Appenzell.[4] He currently skips his own team out of Bern.

Teams

Men's

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2011–12 Michael Brunner Romano Meier Remo Herzog Marcel Käufeler Brigitte Brunner SJCC 2012 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2012–13 Michael Brunner Romano Meier Remo Herzog Marcel Käufeler Brigitte Brunner, Beat Brunner SJCC 2013 (5th)
2013–14 Romano Meier (fourth) Michael Brunner (skip) Kyrill Oehninger Marcel Käufeler Remo Herzog Brigitte Brunner SJCC 2014 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Sven Michel Claudio Pätz Sandro Trolliet Simon Gempeler Michael Brunner
Robert Hürlimann		 Robert Hürlimann SMCC 2014 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2014–15 Michael Brunner Marc Wagenseil Remo Herzog Lars Nielsen Raymond Krenger Brigitte Brunner SJCC 2015 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2015–16 Stefan Staehli (fourth) Michael Brunner Neal Schwenter Simon Biedermann (skip)
2016–17 Michael Brunner Stefan Staehli Neal Schwenter Chahan Karnusian
Marc Pfister Enrico Pfister Raphael Märki Simon Gempeler Michael Brunner
Hans Blaser		 Robert Hürlimann
Christoph Zysset		 SMCC 2017 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2018–19 Yannick Schwaller Michael Brunner Romano Meier Marcel Käufeler Simon Gloor (WUG) Bernhard Werthemann (CWC/2, CWC/final, SMCC), Thomas Lips (CWC/2), Pius Matter (CWC/3, WUG, SMCC) CWC/2 (6th)
CWC/3 (4th)
WUG 2019 (4th)
SMCC 2019 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
CWC/final (5th)
2019–20 Yannick Schwaller Michael Brunner Romano Meier Marcel Käufeler Lucien Lottenbach Bernhard Werthemann ECC 2019 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
SMCC 2020 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2020–21 Yannick Schwaller Michael Brunner Romano Meier Marcel Käufeler SMCC 2021 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2021–22 Yannick Schwaller Michael Brunner Romano Meier Marcel Käufeler SMCC 2022 1st place, gold medalist(s), WCC 2022
2022–23 Michael Brunner Romano Meier Anthony Petoud Marcel Käufeler SMCC 2023 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2023–24 Michael Brunner Anthony Petoud Romano Meier Andreas Gerlach SMCC 2024 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2024–25 Michael Brunner Anthony Petoud Romano Meier Andreas Gerlach

Mixed

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2011–12 Michael Brunner Elena Stern Romano Meier Lisa Gisler WYOG 2012 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2012–13 Michael Brunner Corina Mani Nicolas Stolz Tanja Berner Sina Wettstein
Adonia Brunner
Kyrill Oehninger		 SMxCC 2013 (9th)
2014–15 Michael Brunner (fourth) Briar Hürlimann Yannick Schwaller (skip) Céline Koller SMxCC 2015 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2016–17 Michael Brunner (fourth) Briar Hürlimann Yannick Schwaller (skip) Céline Koller SMxCC 2017 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2017–18 Yannick Schwaller Elena Stern Michael Brunner Céline Koller Sebastian Stock WMxCC 2017 (21st)
Michael Brunner (fourth) Briar Hürlimann Yannick Schwaller (skip) Céline Koller Raymond Krenger SMxCC 2018 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Mixed doubles

Season Male Female Coach Events
2011–12 Michael Brunner Nicole Muskatewitz Brigitte Brunner[5] WYOG 2012 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2015–16 Michael Brunner Céline Koller SMDCC 2016 (5th)

Personal life

He started curling in 2001 when he was 6 years old.[3]

Grand Slam record

Key
C Champion
F Lost in Final
SF Lost in Semifinal
QF Lost in Quarterfinals
R16 Lost in the round of 16
Q Did not advance to playoffs
T2 Played in Tier 2 event
DNP Did not participate in event
N/A Not a Grand Slam event that season
Event 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Tour Challenge DNP Q N/A N/A Q T2 Q
Canadian Open DNP QF N/A N/A DNP Q Q
The National Q Q N/A Q QF DNP Q
Masters Q Q N/A Q Q DNP DNP
Players' DNP N/A Q Q DNP DNP
Champions Cup Q N/A Q DNP DNP N/A N/A

References

  1. ^ "Level 2: SM Männer / CS hommes 2023/24". Swiss Curling.
  2. ^ Curling Schweizermeisterschaft - www.ccflims.ch - 3. bis 20. Februar 2016, Flims(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)
  3. ^ a b Teamplayer - Team Bern Schwaller Archived 2019-06-21 at the Wayback Machine(in German)
  4. ^ "Team Schwaller". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  5. ^ "2012 Youth Olympic Games - Curling- Mixed Doubles - Entry List By Event" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-18. Retrieved 2019-06-02.


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