Christof Schwaller (born 3 October 1966) is a

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curler and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...

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."2002 Winter Olympics – Salt Lake City, United States – Curling"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on March 20, 2008) He played for the Swiss team at the 1998 (as skip), 2001 (as skip) and 2005 world championships, with the silver medal in 2001 as the best achievement. He also won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He was skip for the Swiss team that reached the bronze final at the

1988 World Junior Curling Championships The 1988 World Junior Curling Championships were held from March 13 to 19 in Füssen, West Germany for the men's competition and from March 19 to 25 in Chamonix, France for the women's competition. While it was the 14th junior men's competition, th ...

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(finishing fourth). His brother is

Andreas Schwaller Andreas "Andi" Schwaller (born 8 July 1970 in Recherswil) is a Swiss curler. Schwaller started playing curling in 1982. He plays in fourth position as a skip and is right-handed. In 2001 he won a silver medal at the World Curling Ch ...

. His sons are

Yannick Schwaller Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva. Career Juniors Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champi ...

and Kim Schwaller.

Teammates

2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games

, ''Skip'' Markus Eggler, ''Second'' Damian Grichting, ''Lead'' Marco Ramstein, ''Alternate''

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* 1966 births Living people Olympic curlers for Switzerland Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Swiss male curlers Olympic medalists in curling Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Swiss curling champions 21st-century Swiss sportsmen 20th-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-curling-bio-stub