United States and Norway earn first win on day three at World Women's

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World Curling Media

17 March 2026

In Monday morning’s sixth session of round-robin play at the BKT World Women’s Curling Championship 2026 in Calgary, Norway beat Sweden by 9-7 while United States were 7-2 winners over Australia. These results mean all thirteen of the teams involved have now recorded at least one victory.

In the game between Sweden and Norway, the Swedes took an early 5-1 lead after three ends, but Norway fought back to level the game at 7-7 after nine ends. In the tenth end, their skip Torild Bjoernstad played a hit to remove two Swedish stones and leave two of her own counting, securing a 9-7 scoreline and their first victory so far.

Nora Oestgaard and Ingeborg Forbregd, Norway © World Curling / Anil Mungal

Afterwards, Bjoernstad said, “I’m really glad we finally made it. We’ve been struggling, so I’m really happy”.

And speaking about her winning shot, she added, “I was quite confident about that last stone.”

However, after this win, Norway then went down to Korea in the next session, by 8-7.

In their game against Australia, United States blanked the first two ends before opening the scoring with a three in the third end. As the teams played the sixth end United States led by 3-1, and then their skip Delaney Strouse drew her last stone to sit on the button and score three points for a 6-1 lead. United States then went on to claim their crucial first win by 7-2.

Anne O’Hara and Sydney Mullaney, United States © World Curling / Anil Mungal

Afterwards, American skip Delaney Strouse said, “It was nice to get a win, getting into this has been challenging. This will help to give us a little bit of confidence going forward.”

Speaking more generally about the event so far, 24-year-old Strouse added, “This has been amazing. There’s a lot to take in from your first women’s worlds — it’s not like anything else. We really jumped in at the deep end — playing Canada in our first game. The crowd has been amazing.”

Anne O’Hara, United States © World Curling / Anil Mungal

The Americans came back onto the ice to face Korea in the evening session and, after an extra end, went down by 5-7.

In their only game of the day, Canada beat a Danish team reduced to three players (due to illness) by 9-6 in the afternoon session. In the fourth end of this game, with Canada leading by 3-2, Danish skip Madeleine Dupont played a run-back double take-out to score two points and take a 4-3 lead. Despite this, Canada went on to win, preserving their unbeaten record to stay at the top of the table. Results elsewhere on Monday mean that Canada are now the only remaining unbeaten team.

Speaking after her team’s fourth win, Canadian skip Kerri Einarson said, “I knew it was going to be a great game. We’ve played them before; I know this is a new line-up, but they played phenomenal and Madeleine made some really great shots. It’s not like we played bad; we played really well, too. It’s good to have games like that that test you.”

Shannon Birchard and Karlee Burgess, Canada © World Curling / Stephen Fisher

At the start of Monday’s play, Japan and Turkiye shared the lead with Canada and they faced each other in a top-of-the-table clash in the afternoon session.

In this game, Turkiye had already built a 4-2 lead by the fifth end when their skip Dilsat Yildiz played a draw through a busy house to score three more points and improve her team’s lead to 7-2. Turkiye then went on to win by 9-4 to keep their unbeaten record and remain in joint top spot with Canada.

Oznur Polat, Turkiye © World Curling / Anil Mungal

Afterwards, Turkiye’s third player Oznur Polat said, “We are very happy about our situation right now. Our skip is very confident and a very strong player, and we always trust her!”

While this was Japan’s only game on Monday, Turkiye came back out in the evening to face a Switzerland team who had started their day with a morning 9-5 win over Scotland.

Switzerland won this game by 8-5, establishing an early advantage with a score of three in the fourth end for a 4-2 lead, when their skip Xenia Schwaller drew her final stone onto the button.

This result means that these two teams now share second place behind Canada.

Elsewhere, Scotland recovered from their morning loss to Switzerland with an evening 11-7 win over Denmark who were still playing with only three team members on the ice. The Scottish victory was helped when their skip Fay Henderson was able to draw for five points and a 5-2 lead in the third end.

At the end of Monday’s play, Canada remain unbeaten on four wins while behind them Switzerland and Turkiye share second place on four wins, and one loss. Japan, Korea and Sweden all now have three wins, while China, Denmark and Scotland have two wins each. All the others — Australia, Italy, Norway and United States — have one win so far.

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United States and Norway earn first win on day three at World Women’s

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