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Brad Jacobs<\/a> and Team Canada soared to an historical victory in men\u2019s curling Saturday.<\/p>\n Pumping their fists, waving to the crowd, hugging their family, it was an emotional scene inside the Cortina Olympic Stadium after Jacobs, third Marc Kennedy<\/a>, second Brett Gallant<\/a> and lead Ben Hebert<\/a> defeated Bruce Mouat and Great Britain 9-6 to claim the gold medal at Milano Cortina 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s incredible,\u201d Gallant said of the victory. \u201cTo stand on the top of the podium with this team, it\u2019s amazing. We assembled this team with this one goal in mind. That was the hardest game I think I\u2019ve ever curled. One of the hardest opponents in curling, that team, No. 1 team in the world. It was the team dynamic, team unity and support that led to the gold medal.\u201d<\/p>\n The win was Canada\u2019s first curling gold medal since Jacobs won the men\u2019s event and Jennifer Jones<\/a> won the women\u2019s event back at Sochi 2014<\/a>. Jacobs is now the only men\u2019s skip to have won two Olympic gold medals.<\/p>\n \u201cSomeone had to do it and I was really hoping we could take advantage of the opportunity before us and we did, so I\u2019m just proud of my guys,\u201d said Jacobs, adding that the moment would not have happened without the unwavering support of everyone behind the scenes.<\/p>\n \u201cCan\u2019t thank them enough. Without them this wouldn\u2019t have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy, at 44 the oldest Canadian competitor in the Games, becomes Canada\u2019s most decorated curler, now with two golds and a bronze.<\/p>\n It is also the second gold for Hebert who was with Kennedy on the Kevin Martin<\/a> team that won in 2010. For Gallant, who won bronze in 2022 with Brad Gushue<\/a>, it is his first gold.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m proud to be Canadian,\u201d added Jacobs. \u201cProud to step back on top of that podium again. It\u2019s been 12 years. Curling is Canada\u2019s sport and I think we just proved that again today.\u201d<\/p>\n The championship game was a heavyweight match between two of the top men\u2019s teams in the world: Mount is ranked No. 1 and Jacobs No. 5. Both teams showed off their world-class talents with raised double take-outs, delicate draws, perfectly executed hit-and-rolls and excellently positioned stones that forced both skips into a rash of difficult shots they made look easy.<\/p>\n Neither team could shake the other enough to gain any noticeable difference on the scoreboard until Canada broke through to score a game-changing three in the ninth end. Knowing their chances of victory were slim if they went into the tenth end tied or trailing without hammer, Jacobs and his teammates filled the house with Canadian stones.<\/p>\n Four consecutive missed doubles by Great Britain set Canada up to score the critical three. Mouat was forced to try to freeze to Canada\u2019s shot rock but came up inches short. That gave Jacobs the chance to chip it out for four. His shooter rolled out and Canada settled for three and an 8-6 lead going into the tenth.<\/p>\n Canada put four stones into the top of the house and Great Britain couldn\u2019t find a solution to the problem facing them. Wanting to eliminate the chance of Great Britain getting a multiple score, Jacobs made a tight double to eliminate two of Mouat\u2019s stones in the house and followed with another double. That left only one British stone in the house and Canada sitting two, nearly frozen together. Mouat\u2019s attempt to get the two failed and Canada had its gold medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candice Ward\/COC February 21, 2026 Brad Jacobs and Team Canada soared to an historical victory in men\u2019s curling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[109036,109037,109038,109039,30126,43,109043,14471,44,13543,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-492049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-ben-hebert","9":"tag-brad-jacobs","10":"tag-brett-gallant","11":"tag-curling","12":"tag-gold-medal","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-marc-kennedy","15":"tag-milano-cortina-2026","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-team-canada","18":"tag-top-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topnews","21":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CAW_20260221_9737_1_480f75-e1771712535399.jpg\")
Team Canada\u2019s Brad Jacobs and Marc Kennedy celebrate after defeating team Great Britain to win a gold medal in men\u2019s curling at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Italy on Saturday, February 21, 2026. Photo by Candice Ward\/COC <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CAW_20260221_9728-e1771712567767.jpg\")
Team Canada\u2019s Ben Herbert celebrates after defeating team Great Britain to win a gold medal in mens curling at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Italy on Saturday, February 21, 2026. Photo by Candice Ward\/COC <\/p>\n