| Peter de Cruz | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1990-01-04) 4 January 1990 (age 36) London, England |
| Team | |
| Curling club | CC Genève Geneva, SUI |
| Curling career 👁 Image | |
| Member Association | 👁 Image Switzerland |
| World Championship appearances | 4 (2014, 2017, 2019, 2021) |
| European Championship appearances | 5 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021) |
| Olympic appearances | 2 (2018, 2022) |
| Grand Slam victories | 1 (2018 Canadian Open) |
Medal record | |
Peter Vincent de Cruz (born 4 January 1990) is a retired Swiss curler. He is an Olympic bronze medallist for Switzerland, having skipped his Swiss rink to a third-place finish at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. While de Cruz was the skip of his team, he threw second stones.
As a junior, De Cruz skipped the Swiss team at both the 2010 and 2011 World Junior Curling Championships. He won the gold medal in 2010, defeating Scotland, skipped by Ally Fraser. In 2011, he took Switzerland to the finals once again, but this time lost to Sweden, skipped by Oskar Eriksson.
De Cruz has won bronze medals at three World Curling Championship, in 2014, 2017 and 2019. He led Switzerland to a silver medal at the 2015 European Curling Championships and bronze medals at the 2017 and 2018 European Curling Championships.
De Cruz has won eight World Curling Tour events in his career, the 2011 and 2018 Curling Masters Champéry, the 2012 Challenge Casino de Charlevoix, the 2016 Baden Masters, the 2018 Meridian Canadian Open Grand Slam, the 2019 Swiss Cup Basel, the 2019 Schweizer Cup and the 2020 Adelboden International.
Personal life
[edit]De Cruz currently resides in Carouge, Canton of Geneva.[1]
Grand Slam record
[edit]| Key | |
|---|---|
| C | Champion |
| F | Lost in Final |
| SF | Lost in Semifinal |
| QF | Lost in Quarterfinals |
| R16 | Lost in the round of 16 |
| Q | Did not advance to playoffs |
| T2 | Played in Tier 2 event |
| DNP | Did not participate in event |
| N/A | Not a Grand Slam event that season |
| Event | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 | 2015–16 | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021–22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elite 10 | N/A | N/A | DNP | DNP | QF | DNP | DNP | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Masters | Q | DNP | Q | DNP | Q | QF | DNP | Q | N/A | Q |
| Tour Challenge | N/A | N/A | N/A | Q | DNP | Q | SF | Q | N/A | N/A |
| National | Q | DNP | Q | DNP | Q | DNP | Q | QF | N/A | SF |
| Canadian Open | Q | Q | DNP | DNP | DNP | C | Q | Q | N/A | N/A |
| Players' | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | QF | DNP | SF | N/A | Q | DNP |
| Champions Cup | N/A | N/A | N/A | Q | QF | DNP | DNP | N/A | Q | DNP |
References
[edit]- ^ "Peter De Cruz". Grand Slam of Curling. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
External links
[edit]- Peter de Cruz at World Curling👁 Edit on Wikidata
- Peter de Cruz at Olympics.com👁 Edit on Wikidata
- Peter de Cruz at Olympedia👁 Edit on Wikidata
- Peter de Cruz at InterSportStats👁 Edit on Wikidata
- Peter de Cruz at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)
- Peter de Cruz at the Swiss Olympic Association (in German)
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Swiss male curlers
- Swiss curling champions
- Continental Cup of Curling participants
- Olympic curlers for Switzerland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic medalists in curling
- Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from the canton of Geneva
- Sportspeople from London
- People from Carouge
- 21st-century Swiss sportsmen
- Swiss curling biography stubs
- Swiss Winter Olympic medalist stubs