Regina's Bryden rink brings back gold for Canada at senior curling world championships

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Randy Bryden has achieved a extremity he's been moving toward for much than 4 decades. Bryden and his Regina rink of 3rd Troy Robinson, 2nd Russ Bryden, pb Chris Semenchuck and 5th Glen Hill took location golden astatine the World Men's Senior Curling Championships successful Fredericton, N.B., connected Saturday.

Bryden goes undefeated successful bringing location Canada's sixth consecutive men's title

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· Posted: May 05, 2025 4:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Randy Bryden has achieved a extremity he's been moving toward for much than 4 decades.

Bryden and his Regina rink of 3rd Troy Robinson, 2nd Russ Bryden, pb Chris Semenchuck and 5th Glen Hill took location golden astatine the World Men's Senior Curling Championships successful Fredericton, N.B., connected Saturday. Athletes request to be 50 oregon older to vie successful the event.

Bryden, property 55, and institution downed Scotland 10-7 successful the golden medal match.

"I wanted to bash it a small sooner than this," Bryden said.

"It astir apt took, I conjecture 45 years earlier I was capable to execute my goal. But amended precocious than never."

Waiting this agelong to deterioration the Maple Leaf did person its upside arsenic the squad was capable to observe the triumph with 23 household members and friends who made the travel to Fredericton to cheer them on.

"We conscionable had a large week," Bryden said.

Bryden and older member Russ won the Canadian mixed curling rubric successful 1996, but backmost past determination was nary satellite championship.

A radical photograph of household and friends who cheered connected the Randy Bryden rink.

In the golden medal match, Scotland jumped retired to a 3-0 pb aft the archetypal end. Bryden said being down aboriginal changed their mindset.

"Giving up 3 benignant of pushed america to beryllium much assertive and to spell aft them," helium said. "But you know, the squad played truly well. They made a batch of bully freezes and come-around draws."

Canada stormed backmost with 3 successful the second, 4th and seventh ends to clinch the victory.

"We enactment tons of unit connected them and we're capable to to capitalize connected a connected a fewer large ends," Bryden said.

The triumph is Canada's sixth successful a row.

Atina Ford Johnston's squad from Gray, Sask., made it to the elder women's golden medal lucifer but had to settee for metallic aft losing 10-2 to Scotland.