Canada’s Brad Gushue kicked off the primary of 4 straight two-game days Tuesday morning with a 7-4 victory over New Zealand’s Anton Hood on the world males’s curling championship.
The 2 groups traded singles by way of the opening 4 ends. Gushue took management with a steal of 1 within the fifth and two extra stolen factors within the sixth finish en path to the victory.
Gushue and his St. John’s, N.L.-based workforce of Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden and Geoff Walker improved to 4-1 after 9 attracts at IWC Enviornment.
“Anton made some actually good pictures within the second and fourth ends to remove multiple-point ends for us,” Gushue mentioned. “Each had been actually good pictures. I nonetheless had an opportunity within the fourth finish and didn’t execute it properly, however he made two nice pictures to maintain it shut.”
Canada was scheduled to play American John Shuster later Tuesday.
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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 workforce within the 13-team discipline at 5-0. Canada, Italy’s Joel Retornaz and defending champion Bruce Mouat of Scotland had been tied at 4-1.
Spherical-robin play continues by way of Friday evening. Medal video games are scheduled for Sunday.
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 12 months in Ottawa. His win Tuesday morning improved his all-time world mark to 50-11.
“Once you hear it’s 50, it means you’ve been right here so much and it means you’ve received so much,” Gushue mentioned. “Fifty is numerous video games, so we’ve completed one thing proper. On the finish of the day, we wish to win on Sunday as an alternative of specializing in 50 right now.”
The highest six groups within the 13-team discipline will make the playoffs.
After the early draw, Germany’s Marc Muskatewitz, Switzerland and the U.S. had been tied in fifth place at 3-2. Czechia was alone in eighth place at 3-3.
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