Daniele Ferrazza

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Daniele Ferrazza Curling
birthday 16th March 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Trent
Career
nation ItalyItaly Italy
society Curling Cembra
Playing position Lead
Playing hand right
status active
Medal table
EJC medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
European Junior ChallengeTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold Copenhagen 2012
gold Prague 2013
last change: January 5th, 2018

Daniele Ferrazza (born March 16, 1993 in Trento ) is an  Italian  curler . He currently plays as a lead in  Joël Retornaz's team .

Career

Ferrazza started his international career at the European Junior Challenge 2010, the then qualifying tournament for the  Junior World Championship . As a substitute for Skip Andrea Pilzer's Italian team , he finished seventh. in the same year he played for the first time at the European Championship as a substitute for Joël Retornaz's team; the team took eleventh place.

In 2012 and 2013 he won the European Junior Challenge with the Italian team (Skip: Andrea Pilzer) as second and played at the subsequent Junior World Championships . His best placement in this competition was a fifth place in 2014 in the Amos Mosaner as the Italian skip.

Ferrazza took part in the European Championships in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 as second or lead of the Italian team ; the best result was fourth place in 2014. He played his first world championship in 2015 as second and came in tenth; In 2017 he was ninth and in 2018 eighth.

At the  qualifying tournament  for the  2018 Olympic Winter Games  , he played as the lead in the team led by Retornaz and secured one of the two remaining starting places for himself and the Italian team (skip: Joël Retornaz, third: Amos Mosaner, second:  Simone Gonin , replacement: Andrea Pilzer) for the men's Olympic tournament. In Pyeongchang he came ninth with the Italian team after three wins and six losses in the Round Robin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Italy's Men make history: the team beat Denmark in Pilsen and qualify for PyeongChang. In: coni.it. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, December 10, 2017, accessed on January 5, 2018 .