Peter Vincent de Cruz (born 4 January 1990) is a Swiss curler. He is an Olympic bronze medallist for Switzerland, having

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ped his Swiss rink to a third place finish at the

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in Pyeongchang. While de Cruz is the skip of his team, he throws

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stones. As a junior, De Cruz skipped the Swiss team at both the

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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

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. De Cruz has won bronze medals at three

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, in

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and

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. He led Switzerland to a silver medal at the 2015 European Curling Championships and bronze medals at the

and 2018 European Curling Championships. De Cruz has won eight

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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

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and the 2020 Adelboden International.

Personal life

De Cruz currently resides in

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Grand Slam record

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at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)
Peter de Cruz
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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 {{Switzerland-curling-bio-stub