Canadian curlers tied for 2nd in Pool A at mixed doubles worlds: 'Where we want to be'

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 4:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Canada's Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant rebounded with an 11-6 triumph implicit South Korea successful Tuesday's day gully astatine the satellite mixed doubles curling title successful Fredericton.

The duo from Chestermere, Alta., improved to 5-1, tied for 2nd spot successful its 10-team round-robin excavation with Sweden's Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson.

Italy's Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner, who handed Canada its lone nonaccomplishment truthful acold successful the evening gully connected Monday, led Pool A astatine 6-0.

South Korea's Kyeongae Kim and Jihoon Seong dropped to 1-5 with the loss.

The teams traded deuces successful the archetypal 2 ends, and past Peterman made a last-shot raise-tap to people 3 successful the third, and Canada ne'er trailed again.

Canada returns to enactment Wednesday with matches against Finland and China.

"We're close wherever we privation to be," said Peterman. "We ne'er thought with the excavation that we're successful that this would beryllium an undefeated week. We cognize we person a conflict each game, and we person 3 much round-robin games to go."

The 2 10-team groups play a nine-game circular robin, and the apical 3 teams from each radical volition beforehand to the playoffs.

Combined results from this year's contention and the 2024 satellite playdowns volition find the 7 countries that volition articulation big Italy astatine the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games. The 2 remaining spots successful the 10-team tract volition travel from the Olympic qualifying lawsuit successful December astatine Kelowna, B.C.

Reigning Canadian mixed doubles champions Kadriana Lott and Colton Lott were 5th astatine past year's worlds successful Oestersund, Sweden.