21 Facts About Silvana Tirinzoni

Silvana Petra Tirinzoni was born on 25 June 1979 and is a Swiss curler from Zurich.

Silvana Tirinzoni is a four-time women's world champion skip and five-time Grand Slam champion.

Silvana Tirinzoni is a former world junior champion and reigning European champion.

In 1997, Silvana Tirinzoni was the Swiss alternate for Bianca Rothlisberger at the World Junior Curling Championships.

In 2005 Silvana Tirinzoni finished fourth at the Swiss Olympic trials.

Silvana Tirinzoni returned to the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship with nearly the same team as in 2006, adding veteran Mirjam Ott to the lineup.

In 2011, Silvana Tirinzoni won her first World Curling Tour event, the Red Deer Curling Classic.

Silvana Tirinzoni then went off to skip the Swiss team at the 2014 European Mixed Curling Championship.

Silvana Tirinzoni continued her WCT success the following season, winning their first event, the 2016 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, but did not win any further tournaments.

In one of the strongest countries, with three different World Champions, including a two-time World Champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist, Silvana Tirinzoni won the right to be the Switzerland representative at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Silvana Tirinzoni's team finished undefeated throughout the 2017 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials.

In January 2021, Silvana Tirinzoni competed at the 2021 Swiss Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with partner Benoit Schwarz.

Two weeks later, Silvana Tirinzoni won her fifth national championship at the 2021 Swiss Women's Curling Championship.

Silvana Tirinzoni beat Stern in the playoff, and represented Switzerland at the World Championship, which was played in a bio-secure bubble in Calgary, Canada due to the pandemic.

Team Silvana Tirinzoni ended their four year run together with the final two Slam events of the season, the 2022 Players' Championship and the 2022 Champions Cup, where they had quarterfinal and semifinal finishes respectively.

The new Silvana Tirinzoni rink found immediate success on tour, going undefeated in their first event to win the Summer Series.

Team Silvana Tirinzoni continued their strong play into the first Slam event of the season, the 2022 National.

Team Silvana Tirinzoni ended their season at the final two Slams of the season, the 2023 Players' Championship and the 2023 Champions Cup.

Team Silvana Tirinzoni then conceded the game in the tenth after deciding they didn't have a shot to tie the game, ending their reign as world champions for the first time since 2019.

Silvana Tirinzoni studied business administration at the University of Zurich and completed further training as a financial analyst and investment advisor.

Silvana Tirinzoni worked for seven years as a project manager at a bank, and in 2019 she focused entirely on sports.