Canada’s Brad Gushue improved to 4-1 following a 7-4 nine-end victory over New Zealand’s Anton Hood on the world males’s curling championship on Tuesday in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
The 2 groups traded singles by the opening 4 ends earlier than Gushue took management of issues within the fifth with a steal of 1, adopted by a deuce within the sixth finish to seize a 5-2 lead.
Gushue and his St. John’s-based crew of Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden and Geoff Walker improved to 4-1 after 9 attracts at IWC Area.
“Anton made some actually good pictures within the second and fourth ends to remove multiple-point ends for us,” Gushue stated. “Each have been actually good pictures. I nonetheless had an opportunity within the fourth finish and did not execute it properly, however he made two nice pictures to maintain it shut.”
Canada was scheduled to play American John Shuster (3-2) later Tuesday.
In different early video games, Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller defeated Japan’s Shinya Abe 10-4 and Czechia’s Lukas Klima beat South Korea’s Jongduk Park 10-6.
Sweden’s Niklas Edin is the lone undefeated crew within the 13-team discipline at 5-0. Canada, Italy’s Joel Retornaz and defending champion Bruce Mouat of Scotland have been tied at 4-1.
Gushue received gold in his first world championship look in 2017 at Edmonton. It was the final time Canada reached the highest of the rostrum at this competitors.
The 2006 Olympic champion has received world silver on three events since, together with final yr in Ottawa. His win Tuesday morning improved his all-time world mark to 50-11.
“Whenever you hear it is 50, it means you’ve got been right here so much and it means you’ve got received so much,” Gushue stated. “Fifty is lots of video games, so we have finished one thing proper. On the finish of the day, we need to win on Sunday as an alternative of specializing in 50 at the moment.”
After the early draw, Germany’s Marc Muskatewitz, Switzerland and the U.S. have been tied in fifth place at 3-2. The Czech Republic was alone in eighth place at 3-3.
The highest six groups within the 13-team discipline will make the playoffs.
Spherical-robin play continues by Friday night time. Medal video games are scheduled for Sunday.
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Workforce Canada suffers their first loss and goes to 3-1 on the males’s world curling championships dropping to Italy 7-6 in an additional finish. That is the primary time Italy has overwhelmed Canada on the earth championships since 1986.
