{"id":15939,"date":"2026-02-22T23:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/15939\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:47:11","slug":"sweden-beats-switzerland-for-gold-in-womens-curling-at-the-milan-cortina-olympics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/15939\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden beats Switzerland for gold in women’s curling at the Milan Cortina Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Sweden curling<\/a> skip Anna Hasselborg related how her daughter told her before the Olympics that \u201cit\u2019s so boring when you don\u2019t have a medal.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when Hasselborg marched over to her two kids with a glistening gold around her neck on the final day of the Milan Cortina Games<\/a>, there was nothing to complain about \u2014 just a new toy to play with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they will also remember this week,\u201d Hasselborg said. \u201cThey understood there was something big happening. … I\u2019m so proud to be able to show them that anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

After upsetting top-ranked Canada in the semifinals, Hasselborg\u2019s team defeated Silvana Tirinzoni\u2019s Switzerland 6-5 to win the women\u2019s competition Sunday.<\/p>\n

Hasselborg\u2019s 12th-ranked team celebrated by jumping up and down on the ice, with a Swedish flag draped over their shoulders.<\/p>\n

Three members of Sweden\u2019s team became pregnant after taking bronze at the 2022 Beijing Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecoming a mother, it\u2019s not always easy to find that balance in motivation and that you want to have the fighting spirit because becoming a mom is so much more important than everything else,\u201d Hasselborg said. \u201cBut we found it at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweden has now won a women\u2019s curling medal at six straight Olympics \u2014 stretching back to the last time the Games were held in Italy: Turin in 2006 \u2014 and four women\u2019s golds.<\/p>\n

Overall, it was Sweden\u2019s sixth Olympic gold and 13th medal overall in Olympic curling \u2014 trailing only Canada (seven golds and 14 medals) in both categories.<\/p>\n

Canada beat the United States for bronze on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Sweden also won the mixed doubles<\/a> in Cortina, with Isabella and Rasmus Wran\u00e5, the country\u2019s first-ever team of siblings at the Winter Olympics, taking gold.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s competition, Canada\u2019s controversial team swept aside cheating allegations to beat Britain<\/a> for gold.<\/p>\n

The other members of Sweden\u2019s team were Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer and Sofia Scharback.<\/p>\n

Knochenhauer knocked out four Swiss red stones in the 10th end to set up Hasselborg\u2019s decisive hammer shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a game-winning shot, for sure, and it\u2019s a team shot,\u201d Knochenhauer said. \u201cI feel like a revenge from the last Olympics when I had a similar shot but I didn\u2019t make it. … I really wanted to like really go for it. So I\u2019m very proud of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a big tradition of great Swedish curlers,\u201d Knochenhauer said after earning her fourth Olympic medal. \u201cWhen we were younger we could believe that it\u2019s possible even from a smaller country like Sweden.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 46, Tirinzoni was the oldest woman in the competition. She added Olympic silver to her four world championship golds.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP Olympics: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Sweden curling skip Anna Hasselborg related how her daughter told her before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1817,937,11001,10368,563,10436,5477,1821,11002,10370,11003,307,5685,17],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-agnes-knochenhauer","tag-anna-hasselborg","tag-canada","tag-canada-olympic-team","tag-curling","tag-olympic-games","tag-sara-mcmanus","tag-silvana-tirinzoni","tag-sofia-scharback","tag-sports","tag-sweden","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}