Peter de Cruz
Peter de Cruz 
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| birthday | 4th January 1990 (age 30) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
London , UK
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| nation |
 Switzerland
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| society | CC Geneva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Skip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter de Cruz (born January 4, 1990 in London , United Kingdom ) is a Swiss curler . He is the skip of his team, but plays the stones in second (second) or third (third) position.
Career
De Cruz took part with his team in the 2010 Junior World Curling Championships and won the gold medal there. The following year he was able to move into the final again, but lost to the Swedish team around Oskar Eriksson.
He has taken part twice in the men's curling world championship so far . At the 2014 World Cup he took third place for Switzerland and at the 2017 World Cup he was able to win the bronze medal again together with Benoît Schwarz (fourth), Claudio Pätz (third), Valentin Tanner (lead) and Romano Meier (substitute).
At the European Curling Championships in 2015 he won the silver medal; In 2016 he took third place. He achieved the same result at the 2017 European Championships .
On the World Curling Tour he won the Curling Masters Champery (2011), the Challenge Casino Charlevoix (2012) and the Baden Masters (2016). With the victory at the Meridian Canadian Open 2018 he was able to win his first Grand Slam tournament. He is a two-time Swiss champion (2017, 2014).
With third place at the 2017 World Championships, he scored the necessary points for the Olympic qualification with the Swiss team and played with Benoît Schwarz, Claudio Pätz, Valentin Tanner and Dominik Märki (substitute) in the men's tournament at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang . After the Round Robin , the Swiss and 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
- Peter de Cruz on Worldcurling.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ World Junior Curling Championships 2010, World Curling Federation
- ^ World Junior Curling Championships 2010, World Curling Federation
- ↑ CPT World Men's Curling Championship 2014, World Curling Federation
- ↑ Ford World Men's Curling Championship 2017, World Curling Federation
- ↑ Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2015, Word Curling Federation
- ↑ Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2015, World Curling Federation
- ↑ Sweden win at fourth consecutive Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 26, 2017
- ↑ Peter de Cruz, worldcurl.com
- ↑ Jonathan Brazeau: Peter de Cruz steals to win 1st GSOC title at Canadian Open. In: sportsnet.ca. January 21, 2018, accessed February 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Curling kicks off the Olympic selections. Swiss Olympic, December 7, 2017, accessed on January 1, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Cruz, Peter de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |