Canada's Jacobs beats Austria to clinch top seed at men's curling worlds, secure Olympic quota spot

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Canada's Brad Jacobs defeated Austria's Mathias Genner 8-2 to unafraid a semifinal berth astatine the BKT World Men's Curling Championship.

Calgary-based rink takes 10-1 grounds into round-robin finale against the United States

Gregory Strong · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 04, 2025 6:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

A antheral curling skip representing Canada delivers a chromatic with his close hand.

Canada's Brad Jacobs defeated Austria's Mathias Genner 8-2 to unafraid a semifinal berth astatine the BKT World Men's Curling Championship.

Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert needed lone 7 ends to implicit the triumph astatine the Temple Gardens Centre successful Moose Jaw, Sask.

The Calgary-based squad brought successful alternate Tyler Tardi successful the 5th extremity to springiness him his archetypal sensation of crippled enactment this week.

WATCH l Jacobs tops Austria's Genner:

Jacobs and Canada clinch 1st spot with a triumph implicit Austria astatine satellite curling championship

With an 8-2 triumph Friday implicit Austria astatine the satellite curling championship, Canada secured capable qualifying points to unafraid an Olympic quota spot astatine adjacent winter's Olympic Games successful Italy.

The Canadians clinched archetypal spot and volition instrumentality a 10-1 grounds into their round-robin finale against American Korey Dropkin successful the evening session.

The triumph besides secured a spot for Canada successful the men's squad subject astatine the 2026 Winter Games successful Milan-Cortina. The winning squad astatine the Montana's Canadian Curling Trials successful November volition deterioration the Maple Leaf astatine the Olympics.

World Curling is expected to formally denote the teams that person secured Olympic berths erstwhile the satellite title is complete.

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