Sven Michel

Sven Michel
Sven Michel
	Curler
Born	March 30, 1988; Brienz, Switzerland
Team
Curling club	CC Genève, ; Geneva, SUI
Skip	Peter de Cruz
Fourth	Benoit Schwarz
Third	Sven Michel
Lead	Valentin Tanner
Alternate	Claudio Pätz
Mixed doubles; partner	Michèle Jäggi
Career
Member Association	Switzerland
World Championship; appearances	5 (2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019)
World Mixed Doubles Championship; appearances	2 (2011, 2018)
European Championship; appearances	5 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018)
Olympic; appearances	1 (2014)
Other appearances	European Mixed: 1 (2010) ; World Mixed Doubles: 1 (2011) ; World Juniors: 2 (2006, 2007)
Curling
Representing Switzerland
World Championships
European Championships
World Junior Championships
World Mixed Doubles Championship
European Mixed Championship

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

Curling career

As a junior curler, Michel won the bronze medal at the 2007 World Junior Curling Championships, playing third for Christian von Gunten.

Michel won a silver medal at the 2010 European Mixed Curling Championship, playing second for Claudio Pätz. Later in the season, he and partner Alina Pätz won the gold medal at the 2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Michel would then become one of the top skips in Switzerland, and would represent his country at the 2011 and 2012 European Curling Championships as skip. He also represented Switzerland at the 2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, Michel's first world championship appearance, placing 7th. Later that year, Michel led his country to a gold medal at the 2013 European Championships.

Michel's recent success propelled him to be selected by the Swiss Curling Association to represent the country at the 2014 Winter Olympics. At the games, he led Switzerland to an 8th-place finish with a 3-6 record.

Michel won his first World Curling Tour event in September 2011 when he won the 2011 Baden Masters. Since then he has also won the 2012 Baden Masters and the 2014 German Masters.

Personal life

Michel is employed as a bricklayer. His spouse is fellow curler and 2019 World Champion Alina Pätz.

Grand Slam record

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
T2	Played in Tier 2 event
DNP	Did not participate in event
N/A	Not a Grand Slam event that season

Event	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20
Elite 10	N/A	N/A	Q	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	N/A
Masters	Q	Q	QF	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	Q
Tour Challenge	N/A	N/A	N/A	Q	DNP	DNP	SF	Q
The National	Q	SF	DNP	Q	DNP	DNP	Q	QF
Canadian Open	DNP	DNP	Q	Q	DNP	DNP	Q	Q
Players'	DNP	Q	Q	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	N/A

gollark: This whole ☭ annihilation mechanism just seems ridiculous.

gollark: No, the ☭-¬☭ annihilation causing such a scenario was implausible, not apiochronoformics.

gollark: Anything THAT overpowered would have been patched out ages ago.

gollark: This seems implausible. Not only would this violate causality and many other things, there's no plausible mechanism for how this works, and GTech™ testing *frequently* appeared to cause ☭-¬☭ pair production and annihilation which did not destroy the universe.

gollark: Er, 232.

References

Team site (in German)
Sven Michel on the World Curling Tour database

Sven Michel on the CurlingZone database
Sven Michel on the World Curling Federation database
Olympic profile

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