Joël Retornaz

Joël Retornaz
birthday	30th September 1983 (age 36)
place of birth	Chêne-Bougeries Geneva ,  Switzerland
Career
nation	Italy
society	Sporting Club Pinerolo
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM-B medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
European Curling Championships bronze 2018 Tallinn Curling Junior World Championship-B bronze 2001 Tårnby silver 2004 Tårnby
last change: November 23, 2018

Joël Therry Retornaz (born September 30, 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries , Canton of Geneva , Switzerland ) is a Swiss- Italian curler .

Born in Switzerland as the son of a Swiss man and an Italian woman, he spent his first four and a half years there. After that his family moved to Italy and settled in Cembra in Trentino .

In 1999, Retornaz took part as skip in the European Curling Challenge, which the team finished as the sixth team. Retornaz played the Curling Juionore World Championship B from 2001 to 2004 as Skip, winning the bronze medal in 2001 and the silver medal in 2004. The World Junior Curling Championships ended Retornaz 2004 with the seventh and tenth in 2005 with the court. He took part in the 2003 Winter Universiade , which he finished ninth.

Retornaz took part in the European Championships in 2001, 2004 and 2005 . At the 2005 World Cup he was a substitute player. The team took twelfth place. In 2006 Retornaz took part as Skip at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . The team came in seventh place.

At the World Championships in 2010 , 2015 , 2017 and 2018 , he led the Italian team as Skip and came in twice in tenth place (2010 and 2015), once in ninth (2017) and once in eighth place (2018).

Other European Championship participations followed in 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018. He won his first medal as Skip at the European Championship 2018 in Tallinn, where the Italians beat the German team around Skip Marc Muskatewitz in the game for third place.

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

Web links

• Joël Retornaz on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joel Retornaz. In: kingsport.it. Retrieved November 23, 2018 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Germany women and Italy men win Le Gruyère AOP European bronze medals. In: worldcurling.org. November 23, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018 . 
3. ↑ 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 January 1, 2018 .