Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Tirinzoni | |
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Born | June 25, 1979 |
Team | |
Curling club | CC Aarau, Aarau, SUI |
Skip | Silvana Tirinzoni |
Fourth | Alina Pätz |
Second | Esther Neuenschwander |
Lead | Melanie Barbezat |
Mixed doubles partner | Benoît Schwarz |
Curling career ![]() | |
Member Association | ![]() |
World Championship appearances | 4 (2006, 2007, 2013, 2019) |
European Championship appearances | 4 (2007, 2017, 2018, 2019) |
Olympic appearances | 1 (2018) |
Grand Slam victories | 2 (2015 Tour Challenge, 2019 Champions Cup) |
Silvana Tirinzoni (born June 25, 1979 in Dielsdorf) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip, having won the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship.[1] Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2018 Winter Olympics, after winning the 2017 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials.[2]
Career
In 1997, Tirinzoni was the Swiss alternate for Bianca Röthlisberger at the World Junior Curling Championships. The team finished seventh. The following year, Tirinzoni was the Swiss skip, at the World Juniors, and she and her team of Michèle Knobel, Brigitte Schori and Martina von Arx finished sixth. In 1999, the same team returned to the Juniors, and won the whole tournament for Switzerland. After finishing the round robin in second place with a 7–2 record, Tirinzoni led Switzerland to a semi-final win over Sweden's Matilda Mattsson and a final win against Japan (skipped by Akiko Katoh) to win the gold medal.
In 2005 Tirinzoni finished fourth at the Swiss Olympic trials.[3] The following year she qualified for the 2006 World Women's Curling Championship, her first. Her Swiss team finished in tenth place with a 3–8 record.
Tirinzoni returned to the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship[4] with nearly the same team as in 2006, adding veteran Mirjam Ott to the lineup. Ott moved into the third position when the team began with three losses, and they nearly came back to qualify for the playoff round. Switzerland fell just short, finishing fifth with a 6–5 record. Later that year Ott returned the favour by making Tirinzoni her alternate at the 2007 European Curling Championships. Tirinzoni would not see any action however, and the team finished fourth.
In 2011, Tirinzoni won her first World Curling Tour event, the Red Deer Curling Classic.[5] She would not play in an international championship until 2013, when she skipped Switzerland at the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship.[6] After finishing the round robin with a 6–5 record, she found herself in a three-way tie for fourth. After beating Russia's Anna Sidorova in the first tie breaker, she lost to the United States' Erika Brown in the second, settling for fifth place. Since then, Tirinzoni has won several World Curling Tour events, including the 2013 International Bernese Ladies Cup, the 2013 Stockholm Ladies Cup, the 2013 Women's Masters Basel and the 2014 Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown.
Tirinzoni and her rink began the 2014–15 season by winning their first event, the 2014 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard. She then went off to skip the Swiss team (throwing third rocks) at the 2014 European Mixed Curling Championship. She would lead her rink of Martin Rios, Romano Meier and Jenny Perret to a bronze medal.
While Tirinzoni did not return to an international competition for a while (due to strong competition in her home country from teams like Alina Pätz and Binia Feltscher), she and her rink have been strong on the World Curling Tour since then. The 2015–16 season included three tournament wins, including the first slam of the year, the 2015 GSOC Tour Challenge, where she beat the World #1 Rachel Homan rink in the final.[7] The team would also win the International Bernese Ladies Cup and the Glynhill Ladies International later that year, while she led her team to four other tournament finals.
Tirinzoni continued her WCT success the following season, winning their first event, the 2016 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, but did not win any further tournaments. She began the 2017–18 season by defending her Oakville Tankard title, which would be the third time she would win that tournament.
In one of the strongest countries, with three different World Champions including a two time World Champion and two time Olympic silver medalist, Tirinzoni won the right to be the Switzerland representative at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Her team finished undefeated throughout the 2017 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials. At the games, the team just missed out on a playoff spot, finishing with a 4–5 record.
Heading into the 2018–19 curling season, Tirinzoni joined forces with Alina Pätz, who threw fourth rocks with Tirinzoni skipping at the third position, with Esther Neuenschwander at second and Melanie Barbezat throwing lead rocks. The team reached the final in the first Grand Slam of the season, the Elite 10.[8] They represented Switzerland at the 2018 European Curling Championships claiming the silver medal, going on an unbeaten 9–0 run to finish top of the Round Robin, before defeating Germany 6–4 in the semi-final, and falling 5–4 to Sweden's Anna Hasselborg in the final. Having won the 2019 Swiss National Championships, the team represented Switzerland at the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship in Silkeborg, Denmark. The team got off to a shaky start posting a 2–3 record in their first five games before winning six in a row to secure their playoff spot, and, after a final round dead rubber loss, a round robin record of 8–4 and 4th place in the standings. Tight victories over China in the qualification game, and South Korea in the semifinal set up a repeat of the European Championship final against Hasselborg and Sweden. They were able to turn the tables on Sweden, with Pätz making a draw to the four-foot in the extra end for an 8–7 win which meant they were crowned the 2019 world champions. The team capped off their year with their first Grand Slam title together at the Champions Cup, and reaching the final of the inaugural Curling World Cup.
At the start of the 2019–20 season, Team Tirinzoni were runners-up at the 2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic.[9] They also qualified for the playoffs at their next three events, the 2019 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and the 2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup. The next week, they won the Women's Masters Basel. They represented Switzerland at the 2019 European Curling Championships where they finished the round robin in first place with an 8–1 record. However, they would not make the final, as they lost to Scotland's Eve Muirhead in the semifinal. They rebounded in the bronze medal game, defeating Alina Kovaleva of Russia. The team would not get to defend their title as world champions, losing the final of the 2020 Swiss Women's Curling Championship to the young Elena Stern rink.[10] The Swiss championship would be the team's last event of the season, as both the Players' Championship and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]
Tirinzoni began the 2020–21 season by making the final of the 2020 Schweizer Cup where they once again lost to the Stern rink.[12] Three weeks later, her team was invited to play in the Adelboden International men's World Curling Tour event, as a last minute addition.[13] After dropping their first game to Yannick Schwaller, they went on a four-game winning streak against the men's field before losing to Olympic bronze medallist Peter de Cruz in the semifinal.[14]
Personal life
Tirinzoni used to work as a project management officer for Migros Bank.[15]
Grand Slam record
Key | |
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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 | 2011–12 | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 | 2015–16 | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 |
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Masters | N/A | SF | DNP | QF | QF | SF | QF | Q | SF |
Tour Challenge | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | C | Q | QF | QF | QF |
The National | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Q | F | DNP | SF | Q |
Canadian Open | N/A | N/A | N/A | Q | Q | F | QF | F | QF |
Players' | Q | Q | SF | Q | SF | SF | SF | Q | N/A |
Champions Cup | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | SF | QF | QF | C | N/A |
Former events
Event | 2011–12 | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 | 2015–16 | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 |
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Elite 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | F |
Colonial Square | N/A | Q | DNP | SF | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries | DNP | DNP | SF | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Teams
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead |
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1997–98[16] | Silvana Tirinzoni | Michèle Knobel | Brigitte Schori | Martina von Arx |
1998–99 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Michèle Knobel | Brigitte Schori | Martina von Arx |
2005–06 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Sandra Attinger | Anna Neuenschwander | Esther Neuenschwander |
2006–07 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Esther Neuenschwander | Anna Neuenschwander | Sandra Attinger |
2009–10 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Irene Schori | Christine Urech | Sandra Gantenbein |
2010–11 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Irene Schori | Esther Neuenschwander | Sandra Gantenbein |
2011–12 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Irene Schori | Esther Neuenschwander | Sandra Gantenbein |
2012–13 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Marlene Albrecht | Esther Neuenschwander | Sandra Gantenbein |
2013–14 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Manuela Siegrist | Esther Neuenschwander | Marlene Albrecht |
2014–15 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Manuela Siegrist | Esther Neuenschwander | Marlene Albrecht |
2015–16 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Manuela Siegrist | Esther Neuenschwander | Marlene Albrecht |
2016–17 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Manuela Siegrist Cathy Overton-Clapham |
Esther Neuenschwander | Marlene Albrecht |
2017–18 | Silvana Tirinzoni | Manuela Siegrist[a] | Esther Neuenschwander[a] | Marlene Albrecht |
2018–19 | Alina Pätz (Fourth) | Silvana Tirinzoni (Skip) | Esther Neuenschwander | Melanie Barbezat |
2019–20 | Alina Pätz (Fourth) | Silvana Tirinzoni (Skip) | Esther Neuenschwander | Melanie Barbezat |
2020–21 | Alina Pätz (Fourth) | Silvana Tirinzoni (Skip) | Esther Neuenschwander | Melanie Barbezat |
Notes
References
- ^ The Canadian Press (March 24, 2019). "Switzerland edges Sweden to win world women's curling title". CBC Sports. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-10-01. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
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- ^ U.S. women win one, lose one at curling worlds
- ^ "2011 Red Deer Curling Classic". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ "Canada's opponents in 2013 women's world curling championships in Riga, Latvia". Ottawa Citizen. March 14, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ Jonathan Brazeau (September 13, 2015). "Tirinzoni stuns Homan to win Tour Challenge". Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ Jonathan Brazeau (September 30, 2019). "Hasselborg makes GSOC history winning 1st Elite 10 women's title". Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ "2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic". CurlingZone. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
- ^ "2020 Swiss Women's Curling Championship". Swiss Curling Association. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ "GSOC cancels remaining events of 2019–20 season". Grand Slam of Curling. Grand Slam of Curling. March 13, 2020. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ "2020 Schweizer Cup Results". Swiss Curling Association. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
- ^ "Tirinzoni takes on the men in Adelboden". CurlingZone. CurlingZone. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
- ^ "2020 Adelboden International". CurlingZone. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
- ^ 2018 Continental Cup Media Guide
- ^ "Silvana Tirinzoni Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 23, 2020.