Valentin Tanner
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| Born | 2 October 1992 Geneva, Switzerland |
| Team | |
| Curling club | CC Genève Geneva, SUI |
| Skip | Peter de Cruz |
| Fourth | Benoît Schwarz |
| Third | Sven Michel |
| Lead | Valentin Tanner |
| Alternate | Pablo Lachat |
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| Member Association |  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 | |
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Valentin Igor Fédéric Tanner (born 2 October 1992) is a Swiss curler. He is 2018 Winter Olympics bronze medalist and a four-time world bronze medalist.
Career
[edit | edit source]Tanner is the long-time lead for Peter de Cruz. The team played in two World Junior Curling Championships, winning gold at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships (defeating Scotland's Ally Fraser in the final) and a silver at the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships (losing to Sweden's Oskar Eriksson in the final). 2011 was the final year of junior eligibility for de Cruz. Even though Tanner could have played another two years of juniors, he stuck with de Cruz to play in men's events.
On the World Curling Tour, the team has won two events, the 2011 Curling Masters Champéry and the 2012 Challenge Casino de Charlevoix. During the 2012-13 curling season, the team played in three Grand Slam events, the 2012 ROGERS Masters of Curling (lost in a tie-breaker), the 2012 Canadian Open of Curling (1-4) and the National (1-4). The next season they played in one Slam, the 2013 Canadian Open of Curling (3-3).
In 2014, the de Cruz rink won their first Swiss championship, by defeating the Swiss Olympic team of Sven Michel in the final.[1]
Tanner won a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics as a part of team de Cruz.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Tanner currently works as a bartender.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]External links
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- Valentin Tanner at the Swiss Olympic Association (in German)
- Valentin Tanner at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)
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- Living people
- 1992 births
- Swiss male curlers
- Sportspeople from Geneva
- Swiss curling champions
- Continental Cup of Curling participants
- Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic curlers for Switzerland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in curling
- Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- 21st-century Swiss sportsmen