11 medals from 14 skills: Successful Swiss professional talents

The joy in the Swiss camp after the announcement of the results at the Closing Ceremony is enormous: the talented professionals of the SwissSkills National Team win eleven medals at EuroSkills in Herning, once again crowning themselves the best nation at these title competitions! This is thanks to the highest average number of medal points per vocational talent of all participating nations. Technical Delegate Martin Erlacher's conclusion is correspondingly positive: "We are incredibly proud of the achievements of our talented professionals. Winning eleven medals from fourteen skills - that's something you have to achieve first."

Six gold medals

The talented Swiss professionals were even the best of the entire competition in six skills, winning the gold medal. The "Fashion Design and Technology" skill was won by the duo Melitta Leu and Paula Stein (both EFZ clothing designers). Marlon Mathieu and Leonardo Soares Sousa (both EFZ commercial apprentices) also came out on top in the "Entrepreneurship / Business Development" skill. The other gold medals went to Alina Knüsel (EFZ automotive mechatronics technician specializing in commercial vehicles in the "Truck and Bus Technology" skill), Carmen Bircher (EFZ painter in the "Painting and Decoration" skill), Maurus Dörig (EFZ carpenter in the "Carpentry" skill) and Andrin Dobler (EFZ agricultural machinery mechanic in the "Heavy Vehicle Technology" skill). The three silver medals won by the SwissSkills National Team went to Jana Gander (EFZ electrician in the "Electrical Installations" skill), Julie Zufferey (EFZ beautician in the "Beauty Therapy" skill) and Florian Hurni (EFZ plasterer in the "Plastering and Dry Wall Systems" skill). Janis Schönenberger (EFZ parquet layer in the "Floor Laying" skill) and Pascal Arnold (EFZ chef in the "Cooking" skill) secured a bronze award. The Swiss delegation also secured two Medallions for Excellence with Mattia Andrea Plattner (EFZ bricklayer in the "Bricklaying" skill, 4th place) and Naibi Giuliana Duttweiler (EFZ hotel and catering tourism clerk in the "Hotel Reception" skill, 5th place).

Four competitors will not compete until November

Four members of the SwissSkills National Team will also take part in the Independent Skills Championships Europe (ISC-E) in the skills Butchery, Glass Construction Technology, Stonemasonry and Metal Roofing. These four skills are not part of the official program of EuroSkills 2025 in Herning and will therefore be held separately. The Butchery competition will take place from November 12 to 15 in Chur. The competitors in the remaining trades will then compete a few days later from November 20 to 23 in Salzburg.

SwissSkills 2025 is just around the corner

This coming weekend, new professional talents will be able to recommend themselves for international assignments at SwissSkills 2025, which will take place in Bern. If you would like to come along next week to get a first-hand impression of the latest generation of young professionals, you can still buy tickets. In total, SwissSkills 2025 will award Swiss champion titles in 92 professions and over 150 different professions will be presented. A total of around 1100 young professional talents will be taking part in SwissSkills 2025.

Source: www.swiss-skills.ch