Canada’s Brad Gushue clinched a playoff spot with a 7-4 win over Magnus Ramsfjell of Norway on the world males’s curling championship on Thursday.
Canada led 4-2 after 4 ends, because of deuces in each the second and fourth, after which added singles within the sixth, seventh and ninth ends.
Gushue and his St. John’s, N.L.-team of Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden and Geoff Walker improved to 8-1 to stay in second place within the 13-team round-robin standings.
Six-time champion Nik Edin of Sweden sits in first with an ideal 9-0 report following a 6-4 win over america (5-5) in Thursday’s morning draw.
Canada was set to face Sweden afterward Thursday.
Canada’s skip Brad Gushue delivers a stone towards the Czech Republic on the males’s Curling World Championships in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Saturday, March 30, 2024.
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Gushue’s squad had a 93 per cent shooting-accuracy recreation towards Norway (4-6), one of many higher efforts of the week, however the skip believes there’s nonetheless the next gear to realize.
“It was higher than final evening however not as sharp as we could be,” Gushue mentioned. “We nonetheless had a few sloppy misses and sloppy photographs that towards a group like Niklas tonight or one other prime group, we could not get away with it.”
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In different Draw 15 video games on Thursday, Scotland (7-2) scored a 5-3 win over the Netherlands (2-7) and Italy (7-3) earned a 10-4 victory over New Zealand (0-9).
Spherical-robin play continues via Friday evening.
The highest six groups qualify for the playoffs, with the highest two seeds advancing on to the semifinal. The medal video games might be held on Sunday.
“We wish to get into these semifinals,” Nichols mentioned. “You wish to keep away from that qualification recreation. We needed to undergo it final 12 months, and it’s a ton of stress as a result of you understand when you’re in it, you’re going to be enjoying a very robust group. It could be good to maneuver ourselves one step ahead, so we nonetheless have work to do.”
Gushue gained world gold in 2017 at Edmonton however has settled for silver on three events since, together with final 12 months in Ottawa.
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