Melanie Barbezat

Melanie Barbezat
Curler
Born	(1991-08-10) 10 August 1991 Switzerland
Team
Curling club	CC Aarau, Aarau, SUI
Skip	Silvana Tirinzoni
Fourth	Alina Pätz
Second	Esther Neuenschwander
Lead	Melanie Barbezat
Alternate	Marisa Winkelhausen
Career
World Championship appearances	0
European Championship appearances	1 (2018)
Olympic appearances	0
Grand Slam victories	0
Medal record Women's curling Representing Switzerland Winter Universiade 2013 Trentino

Melanie Barbezat (born 10 August 1991) is a Swiss curler. She currently plays lead for Silvana Tirinzoni, and the team represented Switzerland at the 2018 European Curling Championships. Before joining with Tirinzoni, Barbezat spent the majority of her career as a skip.

Curling career

Barbezat's first experience at a major international event came in 2012, when she won the right to represent Switzerland at the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships in Östersund, Sweden, an event which saw several future Olympic, World and European medallists appear, including Sara McManus, Lauren Gray, Anna Sidorova and Victoria Moiseeva. Barbezat's team finished the Round Robin with a 3–6 record, outside the playoff positions.

After her appearance at the Junior World Championships, Barbezat made a move to join Michèle Jäggi on the World Curling Tour playing lead. The team won the 2012 International ZO Women's Tournament, and finished runner-up to her future skip Silvana Tirinzoni at the 2013 Stockholm Ladies Cup.

Barbezat played second on the Swiss team at the 2013 Winter Universiade, skipped by Jäggi. After completing the Round Robin with a 7-2 record, finishing second in the table, the team were defeated by Kim Ji-sun in the semi-final, before winning the bronze medal with an 8–6 victory over Hannah Fleming.

After the 2013–14 season, Barbezat moved back to the skip position, with her team consisting of Daniela Rupp, future 2018 Olympic mixed doubles silver medallist Jenny Perret, and Carole Howald, an alternate for three consecutive World Championship winning teams. The team won two events on the tour, those coming at the 2014 Dumfries Curling Challenge and the 2016 International ZO Women's Tournament, Barbezat's second career victory there.

Prior to the 2018–19 season a major shake-up in Swiss curling saw Barbezat move back to the lead position to join Esther Neuenschwander, Tirinzoni and Alina Pätz in a team where three of the four members had just come from skipping their own teams. The move brought immediate results, as the new team reached the final of the Elite 10. The team represented Switzerland at the 2018 European Curling Championships, going on an unbeaten 9–0 run to finish top of the Round Robin, before defeating Germany 6–4 in the semi-final to clinch a medal for Barbezat in her first appearance at the European Championships.

Teams

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead
2010–11	Melanie Barbezat	Mara Gautschi	Michelle Gribi	Vera Campanovo
2011–12	Melanie Barbezat	Briar Hürlimann	Mara Gautschi	Janine Wyss
2012–13	Michèle Jäggi	Marisa Winkelhausen	Stéphanie Jäggi	Melanie Barbezat
2013–14	Michèle Jäggi	Marisa Winkelhausen	Stéphanie Jäggi	Melanie Barbezat
2014–15	Melanie Barbezat	Carole Howald	Jenny Perret	Daniela Rupp
2015–16	Melanie Barbezat	Carole Howald	Jenny Perret	Daniela Rupp
2016–17	Melanie Barbezat	Jenny Perret	Carole Howald	Daniela Rupp
2017–18	Melanie Barbezat	Jenny Perret	Carole Howald	Daniela Rupp
2018–19	Alina Pätz	Silvana Tirinzoni	Esther Neuenschwander	Melanie Barbezat

External links

• Team Tirinzoni's Home Page
• World Curling Tour