{"id":583014,"date":"2026-04-05T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:26:09","slug":"canada-falls-to-sweden-9-6-in-final-of-mens-curling-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583014\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada falls to Sweden 9-6 in final of men\u2019s curling worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sweden’s Niklas Edin claimed yet another men’s world curling championship with a 9-6 win over Canada’s Matt Dunstone on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Edin extended the record for world titles to eight in his career. He’s also skipped Sweden to an Olympic medal of every colour.<\/p>\n

But his team arrived in Ogden, Utah, coming off an uncharacteristic 2-7 record at the Olympic Games in February.<\/p>\n

Edin, vice Oskar Eriksson, second Rasmus Wranaa and lead Christoffer Sundgren recovered their form for the world championship.<\/p>\n

They were ruthlessly efficient Saturday in converting hammer into two points four times in the game, while holding Dunstone to a pair of deuces.<\/p>\n

\"ACanada’s Matt Dunstone delivers the rock during the gold medal match against Sweden at the men’s curling world championship on Saturday, April 4. (Tyler Tate\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Dunstone and vice Colton Lott, who made their world championship debut in Utah, and second E.J. Harnden and lead Ryan Harnden settled for the silver medal.<\/p>\n

The foursome out of Winnipeg’s Granite Curling Club replicated Canada’s result at the women’s world championship in Calgary, where Kerri Einarson skipped the host country to a silver medal.<\/p>\n

Sweden, Canada and Scotland capped pool play with identical 10-2 records, but Sweden and Scotland ranked higher than Canada in a tiebreaker of last-stone-draw rankings.<\/p>\n

Dunstone came from behind to beat Italy 9-7 in a playoff game before beating Scotland 9-7 in a semifinal Friday.<\/p>\n

Sweden had a bye to the semifinals and beat the United States 8-6 in an extra end to advance.<\/p>\n

Edin’s draw to the four-foot rings in the eighth end Saturday rubbed on a Swedish stone, but spun inward just enough to score two for an 8-5 lead.<\/p>\n

Dunstone needed to draw for a piece of the button to score one in the ninth. Canada trailed by two coming home without hammer.<\/p>\n

The Canadian skip missed an attempted angle raise to lie two in the 10th end. Edin didn’t have to throw his final stone of the game.<\/p>\n

The Swedes curled 90 per cent to Canada’s 87, while Edin posted 95 per cent accuracy to Dunstone’s 78.<\/p>\n

“They showed today why they’re eight-time world champions,” Dunstone told World Curling.<\/p>\n

“It’s unfortunate for sure. Wish (we) could have put a little bit more pressure on them throughout the game, but I mean again they were just making everything under the sun and we were chasing the whole game.” <\/p>\n

Scotland’s Ross Whyte was an 11-6 winner over John Shuster of the U.S. for the bronze medal earlier Saturday.<\/p>\n

Brad Gushue skipped the last Canadian team to win a men’s world title in 2017 in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

E.J. Harnden, who played his last competitive curling game, tearfully embraced his younger brother Ryan after the game.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old won Olympic gold with Brad Jacobs in 2013 and a combined four Canadian championships as a teammate of Dunstone, Jacobs and Gushue.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s silver medal at the world championship was Harnden’s fifth, including one when he was an alternate for Gushue in 2022.<\/p>\n

TSN’s Vic Rauter called his final curling game after 40 years as the voice of the sport for the broadcaster. The 71-year-old joined TSN in 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-583014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583014","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=583014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}