Benoît Black

Benoît Black
birthday	19th August 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Geneva
Career
nation	Switzerland
society	CC Geneva
Playing position	Fourth
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 2 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2018 Pyeongchang  World Curling Championships bronze 2014 Beijing bronze 2017 Edmonton  European Curling Championships gold 2013 Stavanger silver 2015 Esbjerg bronze 2016 Renfrewshire bronze 2017 St. Gallen Junior World Curling Championships gold 2010 Flims silver 2011 Perth
last change: February 23, 2018

Benoît Schwarz (born August 19, 1991 in Geneva ) is a Swiss curler . He plays on the position of fourth in Skip Peter de Cruz's team .

Schwarz began his international career at the 2009 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival . He played on the position of lead in Roger Gulka's Swiss team and won the gold medal. He won the next gold medal as third in Peter de Cruz's team at the 2010 Junior World Championship . The following year he was able to move into the final again, but lost to the Swedish team around Oskar Eriksson . When he last participated in the Junior World Championship in 2012 , he was a substitute in Dominik Märki's team; the team finished fifth.

After two starts in 2012 and 2013, he won his first medal in 2014 at the World Cup. He took third place with the Swiss team. He was able to repeat this success at the 2017 World Cup together with Peter de Cruz (Skip), Claudio Pätz (Third), Valentin Tanner (Lead) and Romano Meier (Substitute).

He was a substitute for Switzerland at the 2014 Winter Olympics . Skip Sven Michel's team took eighth place.

At the 2013 European Championships , Schwarz won the gold medal in Sven Michel's team by beating Thomas Ulsrud's Norwegian team in the final . At the European Championships in 2015 he won the silver medal in Team de Cruz; In 2016 he took third place. He achieved the same result at the 2017 European Championships .

Black plays with Team de Cruz on the World Curling Tour and has won several competitions.

Together with Team de Cruz, he represented Switzerland at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . After the Round Robin , the Swiss and the Great Britain came fourth. They won the tie-breaker against the British team around Kyle Smith , but were then defeated in the semifinals against Sweden with Skip Niklas Edin . In the game in third place they were able to defeat the Canadian team around Kevin Koe and win the bronze medal.

Web links

• Benoît Schwarz on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benoit Schwarz, worldcurl.com
2. ↑ Curling kicks off the Olympic selections. Swiss Olympic, December 7, 2017, accessed on January 1, 2018 .