Canada's Homan repeats as curling world champ with win over Switzerland's Tirinzoni in rematch

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Rachel Homan's Canadian curling squad has won the women's satellite title with a 7-3 triumph implicit Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni in Uijeongbu, South Korea.

1st Canadian squad to triumph consecutive satellite titles since Schmirler’s rink successful 1993, 1994

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 7:09 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A women's curling foursome smiles portion    posing with golden  medals astir   their necks.

From left: Canada's Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes and Rachel Brown airs with their golden medals aft defeating Switzerland successful the last astatine the women's curling satellite title connected Sunday successful Uijeongbu, South Korea. (Lee Jin-man/The Associated Press)

Rachel Homan's Canadian curling squad has won the women's satellite title with a 7-3 triumph implicit Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni in Uijeongbu, South Korea.

Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes from the Ottawa Curling Club became the archetypal Canadian squad to repetition arsenic women's satellite champions since Sandra Schmirler's squad did it successful 1993 and 1994.

Homan defeated Tirinzoni successful the satellite title last a 2nd consecutive twelvemonth aft a 7-5 triumph implicit the Swiss broadside successful Sydney, N.S., successful 2024.

Homan and Miskew claimed their 3rd vocation satellite titles aft besides winning it successful 2017 successful Beijing.

It was the 2nd satellite golden for Fleury and Wilkes.

Homan has a berth successful November's Olympic trials successful Halifax wherever her squad volition effort to triumph the close to correspond Canada astatine adjacent year's Winter Olympic Games successful Italy.

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