Claudio Pescia

Claudio Pescia
birthday	17th November 1963
place of birth	Zurich
Career
nation	Italy Switzerland
society	CC Zurich City
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World Curling Championship silver 2003 Winnipeg
last change: March 1, 2010

Claudio Pescia (born November 17, 1963 in Zurich ) is a Swiss curler .

Pescia played for Italy at the European Championships from 1994 to 1998 and at the 1996 World Cup. The best placement was 4th place at the European Championships in Grindelwald in 1995.

Then he played for his native country, Switzerland. As Vice-Skip in Ralph Stöckli's team, Pescia played at the European Championships in 2002 and 2005, as well as at the World Championships in 2003 and 2006. The 2003 World Championships in Winnipeg was his greatest success so far by winning the silver medal.

In 2006 Pescia took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Turin . The team finished fifth and thus won an Olympic diploma. From the following season he skipped his own team and became Swiss champion for the third time in 2008.

Today Pescia is the coach of CC Geneva, with whom he became Swiss champion in the second year of 2014 and won the bronze medal at the following World Cup in Beijing.

Web links

• Claudio Pescia on Worldcurling.org (English)