| Peter de Cruz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 January 1990 |
| Team | |
| Curling club | CC Genève Geneva, SUI |
| Skip | Peter de Cruz |
| Fourth | Benoît Schwarz |
| Third | Sven Michel |
| Lead | Valentin Tanner |
| Alternate | Pablo Lachat |
Curling career  | |
| Member Association |  Switzerland |
| World Championship appearances | 4 (2014, 2017, 2019, 2021) |
| European Championship appearances | 5 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021) |
| Olympic appearances | 2 (2018, 2022) |
| Grand Slam victories | 1 (2018 Canadian Open) |
Peter Vincent de Cruz (born 4 January 1990) is a Swiss curler. He is an Olympic bronze medallist for Switzerland, having skipped his Swiss rink to a third place finish at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. While de Cruz is the skip of his team, he throws second stones.
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As a junior, De Cruz skipped the Swiss team at both the 2010 and 2011 World Junior Curling Championships. He won the gold medal in 2010, defeating Scotland, skipped by Ally Fraser. In 2011, he took Switzerland to the finals once again, but this time lost to Sweden, skipped by Oskar Eriksson.
De Cruz has won bronze medals at three World Curling Championship, in 2014, 2017 and 2019. He led Switzerland to a silver medal at the 2015 European Curling Championships and bronze medals at the 2017 and 2018 European Curling Championships.
De Cruz has won eight World Curling Tour events in his career, the 2011 and 2018 Curling Masters Champéry, the 2012 Challenge Casino de Charlevoix, the 2016 Baden Masters, the 2018 Meridian Canadian Open Grand Slam, the 2019 Swiss Cup Basel, the 2019 Schweizer Cup and the 2020 Adelboden International.
