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It'll come as no surprise that Canada beat Sweden 4-2 in the Gold/Silver Medal game. Very low-scoring and very tense until the last end. With the game tied at 2-2 after 5 ends and Canada having last stone advantage, there was no further scoring until the 9th end when Canada took 2 shots. Sweden had narrowly failed to lie shot after a double take-out with their last stone, leaving Canada an open draw for the end. In the last end Canada kept taking Swedish stones out until they could not be beaten.

Amazingly Canada are now the current holders of the Men's and Women's World titles, both with 100% records - the first ever team to do so.


FINAL RESULTS
GOLD - CANADA - skip Brad Gushue, third Mark Nichols, second Brett Gallant, lead Geoff Walker, Tom Sallows and coach Jules Owchar
SILVER - SWEDEN - skip Niklas Edin, third Oskar Eriksson, second Rasmus Wranaa, lead Christoffer Sundgren, alternate Henrik Leek and coach Fredrik Lindberg
BRONZE - SWITZERLAND - fourth player Benoit Schwarz, third Claudio Paetz, second player and skip Peter De Cruz, lead Valentin Tanner, alternate Romano Meier and coach Claudio Pescia


All photographs come from the World Curling Federation website.