Martin Rios

Martin Rios
birthday	24th May 1981 (age 39)
Career
nation	Switzerland
society	CC Glarus
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × MD World Championship medals 2 × 0 × 0 × Mixed European Championship medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Mixed double Curling Mixed Doubles World Championship gold 2012 Erzurum gold 2017 Lethbridge Mixed European Curling Championship gold 2011 Tårnby bronze 2014 Copenhagen
last change: February 26, 2018

Martin Rios (born May 24, 1981 ) is a Swiss curler .

Career

Martin Rios began his international career at the 2001 World Junior Championship as a second in Mark Hauser's team ; the Swiss took seventh place. At the Junior World Championships in 2002 he played second in Andreas Hingher's team and came in fourth.

At the European Championships in 2007 and 2008 Rios played third for the Spanish team and was twelfth and ninth, respectively.

At the Mixed European Championships in 2011 he played again for Switzerland and won the gold medal as second in Thomas Lips ' team after beating the German team around Skip Alexander Baumann in the final . In 2012 he led the Swiss team as Skip and finished eighth. At his first Mixed Doubles World Championship in 2012 , he won the gold medal together with Nadine Lehmann ; in the final they defeated Sweden ( Per Noréen  and Camilla Johansson ). The following year the two came in sixth place. In 2014 he played third in the European Mixed Championships in Skip Silvana Tirinzoni's team and won the bronze medal after winning the game for third place against Scotland (Skip Kyle Smith ).

At the Mixed World Championship in 2016 , he played as the skip of the Swiss team and came in fifth. At the Mixed Doubles World Championship in 2017 , he won his second gold medal together with Jenny Perret . The Swiss defeated Canada ( Reid Carruthers and Joanne Courtney ) in the final .

Rios and Jenny Perret were nominated by Switzerland for the 2018 Winter Olympics , which was the first time a mixed doubles competition was held. After a second place in the round robin , the two moved into the semifinals in Pyeongchang , where they beat the Olympic athletes from Russia Anastassija Brysgalowa and Alexander Kruschelnizki . In the final against the Canadian team of Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris , they gave up after the sixth end at 3:10 and won the silver medal.

Web links

• Martin Rios on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curling kicks off the Olympic selections. Swiss Olympic, December 7, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017 .