Peter Vincent de Cruz (born 4 January 1990) is a Swiss curler. He is an Olympic bronze medallist for Switzerland, having

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ped his Swiss rink to a third place finish at the

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in Pyeongchang. While de Cruz is the skip of his team, he throws

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stones. As a junior, De Cruz skipped the Swiss team at both the

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and

2011 World Junior Curling Championships The 2011 World Junior Curling Championships were held from 5 to 13 March at the Dewars Centre in Perth, Scotland. In the men's tournament, Sweden's Oskar Eriksson won the final 6-5 over Switzerland's Peter de Cruz, while Scotland's Eve Muirhead ...

. He won the gold medal in 2010, defeating Scotland, skipped by

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. In 2011, he took Switzerland to the finals once again, but this time lost to Sweden (skipped by

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) in the final. De Cruz has won bronze medals at three

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, in

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and

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. He led Switzerland to a silver medal at the

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and bronze medals at the

and 2018 European Curling Championships. De Cruz has won eight

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events in his career, the 2011 and 2018

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, the 2012

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, the 2016 Baden Masters, the 2018 Meridian Canadian Open Grand Slam, the 2019 Swiss Cup Basel, the 2019

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and the 2020 Adelboden International.

Personal life

De Cruz currently resides in

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Grand Slam record

References

External links

* Swiss male curlers 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from the canton of Geneva Sportspeople from London Swiss curling champions Continental Cup of Curling participants Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers of Switzerland Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in curling People from Carouge Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics 21st-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-curling-bio-stub