Canada wins twice on opening day at world mixed doubles curling championship

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 26, 2025 8:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The Canadian squad of Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant opened the satellite mixed doubles curling title with 2 wins connected Saturday astatine Willie O'Ree Place successful Fredericton, N.B.

The Canadians bushed Germany 10-5 successful the aboriginal draw, past edged Denmark 6-4 successful the precocious draw.

Against Germany, Canada scored 3 successful the 3rd extremity to instrumentality a 4-2 lead, and added 2 much successful the 5th to spell up 5-3. The Germans (Pia-Lisa Schoell and Joshua Sutor) scored a deuce successful the sixth extremity to trim their shortage to 6-5, but Canada roared backmost with 4 successful the seventh, and it was handshake time.

WATCH | Peterman, Gallant victorious astatine Canadian mixed doubles trials:

Against Denmark (Jasmin and Henrik Holtermann), Canada led 2-1 aft 2 ends. The crippled was necktie 3-3 aft 5 ends. The Canadians went up 5-3 with a deuce successful the sixth, held Denmark to 1 successful the seventh and iced the crippled with a azygous successful the eighth.

Canada, Italy, Scotland and Sweden each finished the archetypal time of contention successful Group A with 2-0 records. China and Finland were 1-1, portion Denmark, Germany, Korea and the Netherlands are each 0-2.

Canada volition play Sweden successful its lone crippled connected Sunday.