| Silvia Benoit | |
|---|---|
| ♀ | |
| Team | |
| Curling club | CC Lausanne Olympique, Lausanne [1] |
| 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.
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip having won the last three championships, in 2019, 2021 and 2022. Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics, after winning the 2017 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials.
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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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Alina Pätz is a Swiss curler. She currently throws fourth stones on Team Silvana Tirinzoni. She is a five time world champion and was the alternate player for the Mirjam Ott rink which represented Switzerland at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Benoît François Dominique Schwarz is a Swiss curler. He currently throws fourth stones for the Peter de Cruz rink. He won gold medal with the Swiss team at the 2013 European Curling Championships in Stavanger and a bronze medal at the 2014 World Men's Curling Championship in Beijing. He competed at the 2012 and 2013 World Curling Championships, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as an alternate. In 2017, he earned a bronze medal at the 2017 World Men's Curling Championship in Edmonton, Canada. He was the team member of Swiss Curling team in 2018 Winter Olympics.
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The 2020–21 curling season began in August 2020 and ended in May 2021.
Silvia Obrist is a Swiss wheelchair curler.
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