Thomas Lips

{{short description|Swiss curler and coach}} {{Infobox curler | name = Thomas Lips | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1970|2|27}} | birth_place = [[Urdorf]] | Curling club = [[Curling Club Baden Regio|CC Baden Regio]], [[Baden]] | World Championship appearances = 1 (2004) | European Championship appearances = 3 (1991, 2003, 2006) | medaltemplates={{MedalSport | [[Curling]]}} {{MedalCompetition | [[European Curling Championships|European Championships]]}} {{MedalGold | [[2006 European Curling Championships|2006 Basel]] | A Group }} {{MedalBronze | [[1991 European Curling Championships|1991 Chamonix]] | A Group }} {{MedalCompetition | [[European Mixed Curling Championship|European Mixed Championship]]}} {{MedalGold | [[2011 European Mixed Curling Championship|2011 Tårnby]] | }} }}

'''Thomas Lips''' (born 27 February 1970) is a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[curling|curler]] from [[Buchs, Zürich]]. Lips was a member of the Swiss team that won the [[2006 European Curling Championships]].

==Curling career== Lips started playing curling in 1977.<ref>[http://ecc.curlit.com/CURLITBio/Bio.aspx?BioID=846&Name= Thomas Lips], ecc.curlit.com</ref> He won a bronze medal at the 1991 European Curling Championships, playing lead for [[Daniel Model]]. He would not return the Euros until 2003. Playing third for [[Bernhard Werthemann]], they finished fourth. They finished sixth at the [[2004 Ford World Men's Curling Championship]]. In 2006, playing second for [[Andreas Schwaller]], the team won the Euros, defeating Scotland in the final.

Lips currently skips his own team, which he took over in 2010, replacing Toni Müller, who will keep throwing last rocks. Prior to 2009, Lips played for [[Andreas Schwaller]]. In their first event, the [[2010 Baden Masters]], the hometown Lips rink defeated the new [[Brad Gushue]]/[[Randy Ferbey]] team in the final.

Lips was the coach of Russian Women's National Team and the German National Curling Teams. In June 2017 he returned to Switzerland for replacing Allan Moore as the National Coach in the Swiss Curling Association.

==Personal life== Lips is married.<ref>2019 World Men's Curling Championship Media Guide: Team Switzerland</ref>

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