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Other names | Patti Vande, Patti Vandekerckhove | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | July 17, 1958 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Curling club | Granite CC (Winnipeg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Member Association | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hearts appearances | 5: (1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Olympic appearances | 1 (1988) (demo) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Patti Wuthrich (born July 17, 1958, in Winnipeg[1] as Patti "Vande" Vandekerckhove) is a Canadian curler and curling coach from Gimli, Manitoba.[2]
As a junior curler, she won the 1974 Canadian Junior Curling Championships playing second for the Chris Pidzarko rink. She won the 1978 Canadian women's championship playing lead for Cathy Pidzarko.
She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics when curling was a demonstration sport. The Canadian women's team won the gold medal, defeating Sweden in the final.
Patti Vandekerckhove was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1986.[3]
After retirement she began coaching teams on the national and international level, for example the team of Kerri Einarson[4] or the Korean team of Kim Eun-jung.[5]