Marcio Cerquinho

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Marcio Cerquinho
Born (1980-06-16) June 16, 1980 (age 43)
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances
3 (2017, 2018, 2019)
Other appearances World Mixed Curling Championship: 1 (2016)

Marcio Leite Cerquinho [1] (born June 16, 1980, in Manaus) is a former Brazilian curler [2] and curling coach. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual interference involving an 11 year old girl, while living in New Westminster, British Columbia. [3]

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Curling career

In 2017 and 2018, Cerquinho participated in the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, placing 28th in 2017 and 17th in 2018. [2] In 2016 and 2017, he participated in the Brazilian Mixed Doubles Championship, where he took second place and first place on both occasions. [2]

Cerquinho also participated in the 2018 Americas Challenge (January) where the Brazilian Curling Team played against Glenn Howard's in a best-of-five series that occurred parallel to the 2018 Continental Cup of Curling.

Cerquinho and his partner Aline Santos missed a spot in the playoffs of the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship losing on the LSD (Last Stone Draw) to Finland by 2.48 cm. [4]

Cerquinho and partner Luciana Barrella placed 26th at the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

Sexual interference crimes

When he was working as a curling coach, Cerquinho was charged in 2021 with child sex crimes for an incident in New Westminster, British Columbia. At the time, Cerquinho denied any wrongdoing. [5] Cerquinho later pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual interference with [6] an 11 year old girl and two other victims. [3]

Teams

Men's

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
2016–17 Marcelo Mello Marcio Cerquinho Scott McMullan Filipe Nunes Sérgio Mitsuo Vilela Robbie Gallaugher 2017 AC Silver medal icon.svg
2017–18Marcelo MelloScott McMullanMarcio CerquinhoFilipe NunesSérgio Mitsuo Vilela 2018 AC(J) Silver medal icon.svg

Mixed

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadEvents
2016–17 Raphael Monticello Alessandra Barros Marcio Cerquinho Luciana Barrella WMxCC 2016 (33rd)

Mixed doubles

SeasonMaleFemaleCoachEvents
2016–17Marcio Cerquinho Anne Shibuya Karen Watson BMDCC 2016 Silver medal icon.svg [7] [8]
WMDCC 2017 (28th)
2017–18Marcio Cerquinho Aline Lima (Gonçalves) Wade Scoffin (WMDCC) BMDCC 2017 Gold medal icon.svg [9] [10] [11]
WMDCC 2018 (17th)
2018–19Marcio Cerquinho Luciana Barrella Wade Scoffin WMDCC 2019 (26th)

Record as a coach of national teams

YearTournament, eventNational teamPlace
2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil (mixed) [12]
24
2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Flag of Norway.svg  NOR Nora Østgård / Flag of Brazil.svg  BRA Michael Velve
(mixed doubles) [13]
25
2020 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Flag of Brazil.svg  BRA Gabriela Rogic Farias / Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Asei Nakahara
(mixed doubles) [13]
25

Personal life

Cerquinho is a Software developer. He was employed at the Vancouver Curling Club until October 2019.

He also built the first 3 sheet Curling Rink in Latin America, located in São Paulo in March 2020 called Arena Ice Brasil.[ citation needed ]

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References

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