Brad Jacobs leads Canada to world men's curling bronze for its 4th straight medal

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 06, 2025 1:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Canada's Brad Jacobs defeated China's Xiaoming Xu 11-2 connected Sunday to triumph the bronze medal astatine the satellite men's curling title successful Moose Jaw, Sask.

Jacobs and his Calgary-based teammates Marc Kennedy (vice), Brett Gallant (second) and pb Ben Hebert scored 3 points successful the archetypal extremity and pulled distant by scoring 5 points successful the fourth.

Switzerland's Yannick Schwaller volition play Scotland's Bruce Mouat for golden aboriginal Sunday astatine the Temple Gardens Centre.

The big squad earned the apical effect with an 11-1 round-robin grounds but mislaid to the top-ranked Mouat successful the semifinals connected Saturday.

Jacobs was assertive from the commencement successful the third-place game, utilizing his archetypal propulsion to marque a nifty divided that enactment the unit connected his opponents.

Xu flashed a chromatic and Jacobs made the gully for three.

Canada enactment much rocks successful play successful the 3rd extremity and Xu had to gully against 4 counters to prime up his archetypal point.

The rout was connected successful the 4th arsenic China missed an in-off that allowed Jacobs to marque a deed for five.

Canada's past rubric astatine this lawsuit came successful 2017 erstwhile Brad Gushue was victorious successful Edmonton.

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Jacobs won metallic successful his lone different worlds quality successful 2013 astatine Victoria.

Hebert and Kennedy won satellite titles successful 2008 and 2016 with different teammates. Gallant won with Gushue successful 2017.

Canada's Rachel Homan successfully defended her satellite women's rubric past period successful South Korea.