Silvana Tirinzoni

In 1997, Tirinzoni was the Swiss alternate for Bianca Röthlisberger at the World Junior Curling Championships. The team finished seventh. The following year, Tirinzoni was the Swiss skip, at the World Juniors, and her and her team of Michèle Knobel, Brigitte Schori and Martina von Arx finished sixth. In 1999, the same team returned to the Juniors, and won the whole tournament for Switzerland. After finishing the round robin in 2nd place with a 7-2 record, Tirinzoni led Switzerland to a semi-final win over Sweden's Matilda Mattsson and a final win against Japan (skipped by Akiko Katoh) to win the gold medal.

In 2005 Tirinzoni finished fourth at the Swiss Olympic trials.^[1] The following year she qualified for the 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship—her first. Her Swiss team finished in 10th place with a 3-8 record.

Tirinzoni returned to the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship^[2] with nearly the same team as in 2006, adding veteran Mirjam Ott to the lineup. Ott moved into the third position when the team began with three losses, and they nearly came back to qualify for the playoff round. Switzerland fell just short, finishing fifth with a 6-5 record. Later that year Ott returned the favour by making Tirinzoni her alternate at the 2007 European Curling Championships. Tirinzoni would not see any action however, and the team finished fourth.

In 2011, Tirinzoni won her first World Curling Tour event, the Red Deer Curling Classic. She would not play in an international championship until 2013, when she skipped Switzerland at the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship. After finishing the round robin with a 6-5 record, she found herself in a 3-way tie for fourth. After beating Russia's Anna Sidorova in the first tie breaker, she lost to the United States' Erika Brown in the second, settling for 5th place. Since then, Tirinzoni has won several World Curling Tour events, including the, the 2013 International Bernese Ladies Cup, the 2013 Stockholm Ladies Cup, the 2013 Women's Masters Basel and the 2014 Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown.

Tirinzoni and her rink began the 2014-15 season by winning their first World Curling Tour event, the 2014 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard.

Team mates

2007 Aomori World Championships

Esther Neuenschwander, Third
Anna Neuenschwander, Second
Sandra Attinger, Lead
Mirjam Ott, Alternate

2006 Grand Prairie World Championships

Sandra Attinger, Third
Anna Neuenschwander, Second
Esther Neuenschwander, Lead
Carmen Schäfer, Alternate

Grand Slam record

Event	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15
Autumn Gold	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Masters	N/A	SF	DNP	QF
Colonial Square	N/A	Q	DNP	SF
Canadian Open	N/A	N/A	N/A	Q
Players'	Q	Q	SF

Former events

Event	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14
Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries	DNP	DNP	SF

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
DNP	Did not participate in event
N/A	Not a Grand Slam event that season

References

External links

Team Tirinzoni's Home Page

Silvana Tirinzoni on the World Curling Federation database

Silvana Tirinzoni on the World Curling Tour database