Las Vegas, United States
Sunday 8 April 2018
Sweden beat Canada by 7-3 to win the title and gold medals at the 361° World Men’s Curling Championship 2018 in the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, United Sates on Sun day (8 April) evening.
The Swedish gold medal winners were skip Niklas Edin, third Orskar Eriksson (who both win their third world titles), second player Rasmus Wranaa and lead Christoffer Sundgren, supported by alternate Henrik Leek and coach Fredrik Lindberg.
The Canadian silver medal team were skip Brad Gushue, third Mark Nichols, second player Brett Gallant and lead Geoff Walker, supported by alternate Tom Sallows and coach Jules Owchar.
After two blank ends, Sweden’s skip Niklas Edin opened the scoring in the third end with a hit on a Canadian stone for two points. In the fourth end, Canada’s skip Brad Gushue came up short with his final draw attempt to allow Sweden to steal two more points for a 4-0 lead.
Gushue then missed a double take out attempt in the fifth end, to give up another single point steal and push the score-line to 5-0 for Sweden at the break.
In the sixth end, Edin played a precision double take out with his first stone to empty the house of Canadian stones, but Canada finally got onto the score board in this end when their skip Gushue played a nose-hit, for one point that reduced Sweden’s lead to 5-1.
Sweden added to their score in the seventh end when Edin hit out a Canadian stone to increase his team’s lead to 7-1. Canada then conceded after scoring two more point in the eighth end for a final score of 7-3 to Sweden, who then started their celebrations.
During the closing ceremony, it was announced that Markus Hoeiberg, third player for Norway, was the winner of the Collie Campbell Award, voted for by all the players to recognise the player they think best exemplified curling's values and sportsmanship throughout the event.
Also, at the closing ceremony, it was announced that the total spectator attendance for the event was just under 75,000.