| Silvia Benoit | |
|---|---|
| ♀ | |
| Team | |
| Curling club | CC Lausanne Olympique, Lausanne [1] |
Curling career  | |
| Member Association |  Switzerland |
| European Championship appearances | 1 (1985) |
Medal record | |
Silvia Benoit is a former Swiss curler. She played lead position on the Swiss rink that won the 1985 European Championships.
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985–86 | Jaqueline Landolt | Christine Krieg | Marianne Uhlmann | Silvia Benoit | ECC 1985  |
The European Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments held in Europe between various European nations. The European Curling Championships are usually held in early to mid December. The tournament also acts as a qualifier for the World Championships, where the top eight nations qualify.
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The Swiss Cup Basel is an annual curling tournament held in October in Basel, Switzerland. It is one of the earlier curling tournaments of the World Curling Tour season.
The World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments featuring the world's best teams of mixed doubles curlers.
The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and mixed doubles championships, as well as men's and women's versions of junior and senior championships. There is also a world championship for wheelchair curling. The men's championship started in 1959, while the women's started in 1979. The mixed doubles championship was started in 2008. Since 2005, the men's and women's championships have been held in different venues, with Canada hosting one of the two championships every year: the men's championship in odd years, and the women's championship in even years. Canada has dominated both the men's and women's championships since their inception, although Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Scotland, the United States, Norway and China have all won at least one championship.
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The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Switzerland.
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The 2021 World Women's Curling Championship was held 30 April to 9 May at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta.
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