Canada’s Team Rachel Homan recovers with win over Sweden at 2025 LGT World Women’s Championship

UIJEONGBU, SOUTH KOREA — There’s a difference between a stumble and a fall. Canada’s Team Rachel Homan proved it knows how to stand back up – and push forward – with a bounce-back win on Sunday at the 2025 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship. 

Ottawa’s Team Homan (2-1) earned a 9-7 win against Sweden’s Team Anna Hasselborg (2-1) on Sunday afternoon at Uijeongbu Arena. It was a welcome result after a surprise loss to Scotland last night. Canada gave up three in the 10th end and lost the game by one.

“I’m not going to forget about yesterday. I’m going to take it and learn from it and not make those mistakes again. We talked about it and tried to tweak a few things today,” Homan said. “It was a slow start, but with the rain today, there’s more frost and the lines were a bit worse for longer today.”

Visions of yesterday’s loss lingered in the opening end. Sweden’s Team Hasselborg, riding a two-game win streak, didn’t start the first end with hammer but finished with points on the board. Hasselborg played a board-weight hit around a guard to nose Canada’s rock and sit three. That forced Team Homan into a draw on the fresh side of the sheet. The shot stalled in the top eight-foot and Canada gave up two.

The first end did not deter Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachelle Brown and national coaches Viktor Kjell and Renée Sonnenberg. Even though Sweden tried to ramp up the pressure in the second, Homan made a runback to readjust the house, leading to a Canadian single. 

By the third end, Canada looked more comfortable and created a steal opportunity. Sweden could draw to the button to score, but it came with the risk of giving up as many as three. Instead, Team Hasselborg played a thin double to give up one and tie the game two apiece.

Neither team could craft a multiple-point end with hammer, but that changed in the fifth. Sweden missed some crucial back-end shots that forced Hasselborg into playing a double to limit the damage. Sweden’s shot went over the top, leaving Canada’s Team Homan with a draw for four and a three-point lead at the fifth-end break.

“It took a lot of resilience, for sure. The ice conditions are tricky and the paths fooled us in the first end. We made one but then misread the next one, so it’s definitely treacherous in the first couple ends and you have to be careful. We’ve got to try and make a few more early, but we learned from them, made a pile of shots in the middle, and got some big points and big steals,” Homan said.

Sweden’s Team Hasselborg has been in the midst of an outstanding season. Last year, the Swedes were ranked fifth in the world. This year, Team Hasselborg has jumped two spots to third and is finding form similar to its run for a gold medal at the 2018 Olympics.

Canada tacked on single steals in the sixth and seventh ends, but Sweden replied in the eighth with a score of three. Canada had to guard a couple of options to limit Sweden, but Hasselborg made a short yellow-yellow tap, dragging the second stone into Canada’s shot stone to score three.

Team Hasselborg found itself back in striking distance with a ninth-end steal. A runback by Fleury went awry, taking out a Canadian stone and leading to a steal of one. However, with hammer in the 10th end, Team Homan made a draw for one and the win.

This game against Sweden was the first of back-to-back one-game days for Canada. Next, Team Homan takes on Denmark’s Team Madeleine Dupont (2-0) at 1 a.m. ET on Monday.

In other Draw 4 action, China’s Team Rui Wang (2-1) held off a late-game surge from Japan’s Team Sayaka Yoshimura (1-2) to earn a 10-9 win; South Korea’s Team Eunji Gim (2-0) stayed perfect with a 6-4 victory over Norway’s Team Marianne Roervik (1-2); and Team Tabitha Peterson of the United States (1-1) topped Lithuania’s Team Virginija Paulauskaite (0-3) with an 8-1 win.

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