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The nice Canadian curling drought is over! Plus, the host nation added one other medal on the determine skating world championships in Montreal whereas Canadians scored a hat trick of World Cup titles on the slopes. Here is what to know from an distinctive weekend of Olympic and Paralympic sports activities:
Rachel Homan’s staff gained Canada’s first main curling title in six years.
Final night time in Sydney, N.S., Homan’s foursome defeated Switzerland 7-5 to capture the women’s world championship. It is Canada’s first world or Olympic title in girls’s, males’s or blended doubles curling since Jennifer Jones’ victory on the 2018 worlds in North Bay, Ont.
That is fairly the dry spell, contemplating Canada is dwelling to a lot of the world’s finest curlers. And Homan was one of many faces of her nation’s struggles in massive worldwide occasions. After profitable her first world title in three tries in 2017, she missed the playoffs twice on the Olympics: within the girls’s occasion in 2018 and in blended doubles with John Morris in 2022.Â
However, this yr, Homan raised her sport to a different degree. Lower than six months after giving start to her third little one, the 34-year-old Ottawa skip captured her fourth Canadian title, beating Jones within the closing to finish an ideal 11-0 run on the Scotties. Homan and her teammates Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes have been practically flawless on the world championship too, going 13-1 to up their document this season to an unbelievable 62-6.
The one blemish was a meaningless loss to South Korea within the closing draw of the round-robin on Friday night time, after Canada had clinched the highest seed for the playoffs. When the chips have been down, Homan won her rematch with the Koreans within the semifinals on Saturday earlier than dethroning Swiss skip Silvana Tirinzoni, who had gained the previous 4 world titles.
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier earned Canada’s second medal of the determine skating world championships in Montreal.
Earlier than Homan’s massive victory, an analogous Canadian drought ended on Thursday night time on the Bell Centre when the pairs staff of Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps captured the nation’s first figure skating world title since 2018. On Saturday, Gilles and Poirier added a silver within the ice dance occasion, giving Canada a number of medals on the determine skating worlds for the primary time since Kaetlyn Osmond gained the ladies’s gold and Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje took the dance bronze in ’18.
Gilles and Poirier moved up from third place after the opening stage with an excellent efficiency that dazzled the partisan Montreal crowd and the judges, who awarded them the highest rating within the free skate. The silver medal got here after Gilles and Poirier took bronze at two of the previous three worlds — together with final yr, when Gilles was simply two months faraway from surgical procedure for ovarian most cancers.
People Madison Chock and Evan Bates held on for his or her second straight gold. Canada’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha positioned fifth, whereas Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen have been ninth.
Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto won her third consecutive women’s title, turning into the primary skater to take action since American Peggy Fleming in 1968.
American teenager Ilia Malinin captured his first males’s world title, denying Shoma Uno of a three-peat. The Japanese star led after the quick program however fell to fourth after lacking two quadruple jumps to start out his free skate. Malinin, nicknamed the “Quad God,” nailed an astonishing six of them, together with his signature quad axel, to earn a world-record rating within the free and steal the gold. Watch Malinin’s free skate here.
Canadians captured three World Cup titles in freestyle snowboarding and snowboarding.
Eliot Grondin had already clinched his first snowboard cross Crystal Globe heading into the ultimate World Cup cease of the season at Quebec’s Mont-Sainte-Anne. However the 22-year-old nonetheless placed on a present about an hour from the place he grew up, winning both men’s races to place an exclamation level on his unbelievable season. Grondin gained 10 medals in 11 begins, together with a males’s-record seven golds.
Marielle Thompson grabbed her record-tying fourth girls’s ski cross globe on Saturday after winning the final race in Sweden. It was the sixth victory of the season for the previous Olympic and world champion. Canada’s Brittany Phelan gained Friday’s race and took bronze Saturday to shut the season with 4 consecutive podiums and end third within the World Cup chase. Hannah Schmidt positioned fourth within the standings, and India Sherret gave Canada 4 of the highest six. Reece Howden took silver in Saturday’s males’s season finale to complete second within the standings, simply lacking his third Globe. Canada gained its third straight ski cross Nations Cup, awarded to the nation that accumulates essentially the most factors in the course of the World Cup season.
Snowboarder Liam Brearley made it a hat trick of World Cup titles for Canada, profitable the boys’s slopestyle competitors in Switzerland on Saturday to turn into the primary Canadian to capture a Crystal Globe on this self-discipline. It was the fourth World Cup gold medal of the season for the 21-year-old, who additionally gained the boys’s snowboard knuckle huck occasion on the Winter X Video games in January.
Different medal wins:
* Canadians reached 4 podiums at a diving World Cup meet in Berlin. Rylan Wiens grabbed a pair of silvers, within the particular person males’s 10m platform occasion and the 10m synchronized with Nathan Zsombor-Murray. Caeli McKay earned a bronze within the girls’s solo 10m and a silver within the synchro with Kate Miller.
* 4 Canadians grabbed medals at a judo Grand Slam meet in Georgia. Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard gained gold in her weight division, Jessica Klimkait and Shady El Nahas every earned silver and Christa Deguchi bought bronze.
* Canadians gained three extra medals on the Para observe biking world championships in Brazil. After taking silver within the girls’s C3 500m time trial on Wednesday, Mel Pemble added a bronze within the omnium. Keely Shaw raced to bronze within the girls’s C4 particular person pursuit, and Alex Hayward earned silver within the males’s C3 scratch race.
* The seashore volleyball duo of Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec picked up a silver after shedding to a Latvian staff within the closing of a Professional Tour occasion in Brazil.
* Canada’s Kalle Ericsson and his information Sierra Smith took silver within the males’s big slalom visually impaired class on the Para alpine World Cup finals in Italy. They gained gold within the slalom on Friday.
* The Canadian wheelchair rugby staff took silver at a event in New Zealand and qualified for this summer’s Paralympic Games.
