Silvana Tirinzoni

Silvana Tirinzoni
Curler
Born	(1979-06-25) 25 June 1979 Zurich, Switzerland
Team
Curling club	CC Aarau, Aarau, SUI
Skip	Silvana Tirinzoni
Third	Manuela Siegrist
Second	Esther Neuenschwander
Lead	Marlene Albrecht
Career
World Championship appearances	3 (2006, 2007, 2013)
European Championship appearances	1 (2007)
Grand Slam victories	1 (2015 GSOC Tour Challenge)
Medal record Women's curling Competitor for   Switzerland World Junior Curling Championships 1999 Östersund European Mixed Curling Championship 2014 Copenhagen

Silvana Tirinzoni (born June 25, 1979 in Zurich) is a Swiss curler from Oberrohrdorf.

Career

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

Former events

References

External links

• Team Tirinzoni's Home Page

• Silvana Tirinzoni on the World Curling Federation database

• Silvana Tirinzoni on the World Curling Tour database