Valentin Igor Fédéric Tanner (born 2 October 1992) is a Swiss curler. He currently plays lead for the Peter de Cruz team from

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Career

Tanner is the long-time lead for de Cruz. The team played in two

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, 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 The 2011 World Junior Curling Championships were held from 5 to 13 March at the Dewars Centre in Perth, Scotland. In the men's tournament, Sweden's Oskar Eriksson won the final 6-5 over Switzerland's Peter de Cruz, while Scotland's Eve Muirhe ...

(losing to Sweden's

Oskar Eriksson Oskar Ingemar Eriksson (born 29 May 1991) is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. He currently plays third for the Niklas Edin rink. He is the first curler in history to win four Olympic medals – gold, silver, and two bronze – and the first to ...

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

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, 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

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(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 Sven Michel (born 30 March 1988) is a Swiss curler from Matten. He won a gold medal for Switzerland at the 2013 European Curling Championships and skipped Switzerland at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Career As a junior curler, Michel won the bron ...

in the final.

Personal life

Tanner currently works as a bartender.2017 Ford Worlds Media Guide: Team Switzerland

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tanner, Valentin 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 people