Benoît Schwarz-van Berkel
Swiss curler
Benoît François Dominique Schwarz-van Berkel (né Schwarz; born 19 August 1991) is a Swiss curler. He currently throws fourth stones for skip Yannick Schwaller. He is a World Junior Champion, won a gold medal with the Swiss team at the 2013 European Curling Championships in Stavanger, and also has two Grand Slam of Curling titles at the Canadian Open in 2018 and 2025. Schwarz-van Berkel has also earned multiple medals at both the European Curling Championship and World Men's Curling Championship, and was part of the bronze medal-winning Swiss team at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2026 Winter Olympics.
Career
Juniors
Schwarz-van Berkel began his international career representing Switzerland at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships, as the fourth rock thrower on a team skipped by Peter de Cruz. At Schwarz-van Berkel's first international event, the team went 7–2 in the round robin, and would go on to win the championship, beating Scotland's Ally Fraser 7–6 in the final. Schwarz-van Berkel would return to the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships with de Cruz, where the team would fail to defend their title, losing 6–5 to Sweden's Oskar Eriksson in the final. Schwarz-van Berkel would make his final World Junior appearance as an alternate for the Dominik Märki rink in 2012, where the team would finish 5–4, finishing 6th and failing to qualify for the playoffs.
Men's
Alternate for Team Michel (2011–2014)
Schwarz-van Berkel would make his international men's debut at the 2011 European Curling Championships as the alternate for Sven Michel's rink. At the European's, the Swiss team finished 6th with a 5–4 record.
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