Canada’s Team Rachel Homan picks up pace at 2025 LGT World Women’s Championship

UIJEONGBU, SOUTH KOREA — Another win, another step closer. Team Rachel Homan kept its championship ambitions intact on Tuesday morning in South Korea, securing a victory that helped pave the way to the playoffs – and important Olympic qualification points – at the 2025 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship.

The Canadian team from Ottawa earned an 8-4 win against Team Tabitha Peterson of the United States (2-3) at Uijeongbu Arena. Canada now sits at 4-1 and is firmly entrenched among the leaders in the 13-team field.

Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachelle Brown and national coaches Viktor Kjell and Renée Sonnenberg were about as textbook as possible in the victory against the Americans. Canada converted three times when scoring with the last stone. 

“We got our job done [with converting], especially later in the game when we want to make sure we score. Getting two in those ends feels really good for the momentum,” Wilkes said.

After a blanked first end, Canada flirted with scoring three in the second. Peterson bailed her team out with a freeze and Team Homan replied with perfect draw weight to score two. Canada also earned deuces in the fourth and eighth ends.

In stark contrast, the Americans could not score more than one with hammer in ends three, five, seven and nine. 

Canada, shooting an event-high 93 per cent as a unit, had a draw, runback or roll ready to answer any offence the Americans tried to develop.

“It felt like we put together everything we learned from all the previous games and came out there confident knowing what the sheet was going to do, what the rocks were doing,” Wilkes said.

Canada is third in the standings, behind South Korea’s Team Eunji Gim and Switzerland’s Team Silvana Tirinzoni, both 5-0. 

Team Homan’s next opportunity to close that gap comes tonight when it takes on Turkey’s Team Dilsat Yildiz (0-5), which is still searching for its first win of the week. The game starts at 6 a.m. ET on Tuesday.

Two other games were featured in Draw 9, both with 8-7 results. China’s Team Rui Wang (3-2) defeated Italy’s Team Stefania Constantini (2-4) and Norway’s Team Marianne Roervik (3-3) bested winless Team Virginija Paulauskaite of Lithuania (0-6).

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