Valentin Tanner

Valentin Tanner
Valentin Tanner
Curler
Born	2 October 1992 (age 32); Geneva, Switzerland
Team
Curling club	CC Genève; Geneva, SUI
Skip	Peter de Cruz
Fourth	Benoît Schwarz
Third	Sven Michel
Lead	Valentin Tanner
Alternate	Pablo Lachat
Curling career
Member Association	Switzerland
World Championship; appearances	4 (2014, 2017, 2019, 2021)
European Championship; appearances	5 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021)
Olympic; appearances	2 (2018, 2022)
Grand Slam victories	1 (2018 Canadian Open)
Medal record
Men's Curling
Representing Switzerland
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
World Junior Championships

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

Career

Tanner is the long-time lead for de Cruz. The team played in two World Junior Curling Championships, 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 (losing to Sweden's Oskar Eriksson 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 World Curling Tour, 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 National (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 in the final.^[1]

Tanner currently works as a bartender.^[2]