Canada earns fourth-straight win at 2025 LGT World Women’s Championship

UIJEONGBU, SOUTH KOREA — One year ago, Canada was under serious pressure in its game against Turkey at worlds. This year, at the 2025 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship, Team Rachel Homan called the shots in its re-match against Team Dilsat Yildiz.

On Tuesday night, the Canadians cruised to an 8-3 victory over Turkey (0-7) at Uijeongbu Arena. The team from Ottawa improved to 5-1 and halfway through the 13-team round robin.

Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachelle Brown and national coaches Viktor Kjell and Renée Sonnenberg put the game away in the eighth end. Homan played a hit-and-roll off a Canadian stone and into a Turkish one to score three.

“That game was the first time on that sheet and I think every team here throws it a little bit different, too. So there’s that challenge as well. In Canada, we throw it a little bit more similar and every country has their theory on how to throw it,” Homan said. “So, sometimes you’re learning your own lines, and that’s all you’ve got to go off of, and that makes it a little bit more challenging. We’re just trying to communicate and stick with each other because it’s a long week and a lot of games.”

Last year, Turkey took Canada to the limit. The relatively new curling nation, now competing at its fourth world women’s championship, battled back and forth with Team Homan. Canada won, but Homan had to make two brilliantly difficult runbacks to come out on top.

This year, Turkey showed flashes of its cold-blooded execution but couldn’t go punch-for-punch with the reigning champions. 

Turkey started the game with hammer but couldn’t score in the opening frame. The Canadians stole a single in the first and tacked on another two points after the opposition missed a double on its last in the second.

When Canada looked to be running away with the game, skip Yildiz halted it and showcased some of her big-shot ability in the third end. Canada looked poised to steal, but Yildiz made a wide in-off, ricocheting off a stone inches away from the sideboard and into the house to score two.

“We had a couple of mistakes when we ended up with the pile of guards, but that wasn’t on purpose. She made the in-off for two, that was a great shot. But we just stuck to our game plan and executed a little bit more precise. They had a couple of unfortunate misses, but I thought it was a really good battle,” Homan said.

Canada was forced to a single point in the fourth and Turkey blanked the fifth to trail two with hammer at the fifth-end break.

However, Team Dilsat could not keep its momentum tuned up in the sixth. On her last, Homan made a freeze – dragged by dynamo sweeper Wilkes – and forced Turkey into a runback. Dilsat failed to capture the magic of her in-off and gave up a Canadian steal.

Homan’s draw weight has been rock solid this week. The skip clocked a 92 per cent draw efficiency and was 88 per cent accurate on all draws heading into the game.

“I have huge confidence in (Emma and Sarah) being able to put it on the right spot and have really good communication. It’s been great. They’re amazing sweepers and I’m lucky to play with them,” Homan said.

Canada forced Turkey to a single in the seventh end and set up the score of three for the win in the eighth.

Canada is now tied for second in the standings alongside South Korea’s Team Eunji Gim (5-1). The two teams will clash in Canada’s next game in South Korea, with the match taking place Tuesday at 8 p.m. (all times E.T.). It is the first of a two-game day, with the Canadians also facing Norway’s Team Marianne Roervik (3-3) at 6 a.m. Wednesday.

In other Draw 11 action, Switzerland’s Team Silvana Tirinzoni (7-0) stayed undefeated with an 8-5 win against Italy’s Team Stefania Constantini (2-5); Scotland’s Team Sophie Jackson (3-4) upended Lithuania’s Team Virginija Paulauskaite (0-7) with a 9-2 win; and Norway’s Team Roervik overcame China’s Team Rui Wang with a 9-8 victory.

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