Canada Score Three in the Ninth End to Beat Great Britain 9-6 for Men's Curling Gold
On the evening of February 21, 2026, at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the province of Belluno in Italy's Veneto region, Canada beat Great Britain 9-6 to win the men's curling gold medal at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. World Curling reported the final.
The lead changed hands throughout the first eight ends. Canada opened with one point, Great Britain moved ahead 2-1, and the score ran 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-4 and 5-5 before Great Britain led 6-5 after eight ends. In the ninth, Canada built up three counting stones; British skip Bruce Mouat's attempted freeze with his last stone left just too much room between the stones, and Canadian skip Brad Jacobs picked out the British stone to score three and take an 8-6 lead. In the tenth, Mouat's last strike, needing to remove two Canadian stones to force an extra end, was too straight, and Canada stole one point for the 9-6 win.
Canada's team was Brad Jacobs (skip), Marc Kennedy (third), Brett Gallant (second), Ben Hebert (lead) and Tyler Tardi (alternate), supported by coaches Paul Webster and Jeff Stoughton. Great Britain fielded Bruce Mouat (skip), Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan and alternate Kyle Waddell.
"I'm glad it's over and we won. Very relieved — it's been a hard couple of weeks and we went through a lot and to persevere and get through that after everything that happened," Jacobs said, adding that his team had not come out with its best but had learned to keep big games close, avoid stupid mistakes and take the breaks when they came in the ninth and tenth ends. A dejected Mouat said: "Two time Olympic medallist sounds cool, but… just wish it was the other colour. We have no regrets. We put out everything we had, just a bit disappointed that it didn't come up for us."
The gold is Canada's first in men's curling since the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, where Jacobs also skipped the winning team; Jacobs, Kennedy and Hebert each now have two Olympic gold medals. The men's bronze had been decided on February 20, when Switzerland beat Norway 9-1.
Related: Team USA Beats Canada 2-1 in Overtime for First Men's Hockey Olympic Gold Since 1980
Source: World Curling
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