Team Peterman/Gallant rally to defeat Sweden and remain unbeaten at World Mixed Doubles

It was a less-than ideal start to the game, but the finish more than made up for it for Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant Sunday afternoon at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

The Canadian tandem from Chestermere, Alta., surrendered three points in the first end to Sweden’s former world champions Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson.

But the Canadians buckled down and methodically took back control of the game over the ensuing seven ends and were full value for an 8-6 win that improved Canada’s record to 3-0, tied for top spot in its 10-team round-robin pool with Scotland’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat and Italy’s Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner.

The Swedes, who defeated Peterman and Gallant in the 2019 world championship gold-medal game in Norway, dropped to 2-1.

“I think it just shows that no matter what the score is or what the scenario is we’re just, ‘on to the next end,’ ” said Peterman. “We’re going to give it our all until they tell us we’re done.”

That philosophy was evident Sunday afternoon at Willie O’Ree Place in Fredericton, N.B. In the first end, Peterman’s first shot of the game, a freeze attempt, was heavy and bumped into the open, and, as such misses tend to do in mixed doubles curling, it led to Hasselborg making a double takeout to score three.

But the response from Canada (team coach Laine Peters and national coach Scott Pfeifer round out the squad) was textbook — deuces in the second and fourth ends, combined with forcing Sweden to singles in the third and fifth ends.

“I mean, it’s tough starting down three,” said Peterman. “But then we’re trying to focus on what we did well that end and we made our last four shots (in the first end) perfect and that just shows you how tough mixed doubles are.”

In the sixth, Canada used its power play, and a couple of misses from the Swedes to score three and take its first lead of the game.

An end later, Sweden had something brewing with its own power play, but Gallant made a terrific double takeout that led to the Swedes settling for one. 

And Gallant’s freeze in the eighth couldn’t be removed by Hasselborg, and Peterman, who was scored at a stellar 97 per cent, didn’t need to throw her last stone.

“It was a great last seven (ends),” said Gallant. “We just had a really good feel for our speed and the way the ice was. Yes, we got a couple breaks here and there but then we were able to kind of capitalize when we got them and get the points on the board. To tie it up after four was really huge and we had a really good power play in six; the power plays were kind of the difference in the score.”

Peterman and Gallant have a pair of games on Monday — at 9 a.m. (all times Eastern) against Lisenka Bomas and Wouter Goesgens of the Netherlands (0-3), and at 5 p.m. against the reigning Olympic champions Constantini and Mosaner of Italy.

World Curling’s live-streaming platform The Curling Channel will be the only way to watch games from the World Mixed Doubles Championship.

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