{"id":36825,"date":"2026-03-23T02:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/36825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:15:26","slug":"switzerlands-schwaller-beats-canadas-einarson-for-womens-world-curling-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/36825\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland\u2019s Schwaller beats Canada\u2019s Einarson for women\u2019s world curling gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Team Canada skip Kerri Einarson, centre, delivers a stone against Switzerland as lead Karlee Burgess, left, and second Shannon Birchard sweep during the gold-medal draw at the world women\u2019s curling championship in Calgary on Sunday.Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Kerri Einarson\u2019s bid for a first women\u2019s world curling championship fell short in a 7-5 loss in Sunday\u2019s final to Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Einarson\u2019s team from Manitoba\u2019s Gimli Curling Club took the silver medal at Calgary\u2019s Winsport Event Centre.<\/p>\n

Einarson\u2019s teams were bronze medallists in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n

The podium upgrade felt bittersweet for the 38-year-old skip, whose twin daughters were among family members in the stands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely tough, but at the end of the day it\u2019s not the end of the world,\u201d Einarson said. \u201cI look up and see my girls standing there and I don\u2019t want them to think that losing is the end of the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still pretty special to be able to bring home a medal. We wanted gold, but silver is pretty special, too. The girls told me when I give them a hug \u2018it\u2019s an upgrade mum.\u201c\u2019<\/p>\n

Einarson, third Val Sweeting, second Shannon Birchard and lead Karlee Burgess ran up against a formidable young Swiss side again Sunday after an extra-end loss to them in pool play.<\/p>\n

Switzerland\u2019s Xenia Schwaller, Selina Gafner, Fabienne Rieder and Selina Rychiger, with an average age of 22.5, gave the Canadians little margin for error Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 2024 world junior champions had beaten four-time world champion Silvana Tirinzoni twice in a best-of-three final to represent Switzerland in Calgary.<\/p>\n

Einarson ranked fifth and Schwaller sixth in World Curling women\u2019s rankings. The Swiss made fewer mistakes Sunday.<\/p>\n

Einarson was short on draws in the fifth and the 10th ends. With the exception of 96 per cent shooting accuracy by Burgess, the Canadians were outplayed.<\/p>\n

Swiss second Rieder was 99 per cent on her 17 takeouts thrown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t really miss,\u201d Einarson said. \u201dThey didn\u2019t give us many opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy draw was just an inch too short. The game\u2019s a game of inches and I just felt like that we couldn\u2019t get things going either, just trying to like get rocks in play, and yeah, nothing was really working.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Swiss skip said few in her home country had confidence in her team\u2019s chances in Calgary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always nice to prove the haters wrong, but we didn\u2019t really try to give them too much attention because we knew that we can play well and we knew we have a good chance for a medal here if we perform as well as we can,\u201d Schwaller stated. \u201cNow we did and that feels really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada converted hammer into two points just once in the game in the fourth end.<\/p>\n

Schwaller rolling out on a hit in the seventh gave up a steal of one and tied the game 4-4, but the Swiss rebounded with a deuce in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Einarson\u2019s difficult raise to try for two in the ninth produced just a single. The Canadians trailed 6-5 coming home without hammer.<\/p>\n

Schwaller didn\u2019t have to throw her final stone of the 10th when Einarson was light on a draw.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us wanted a couple shots here and there,\u201d Einarson said. \u201cI made some really great ones too, some key hits and rolls to even keep us in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada and Switzerland met in the final a third straight year after Canada\u2019s Rachel Homan beat Tirinzoni for gold in both 2025 and 2024.<\/p>\n

Sweden\u2019s Isabella Wranaa defeated Japan\u2019s Satsuki Fujisawa 8-5 for the bronze medal earlier Sunday.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s world championship opens Friday in Ogden, Utah.<\/p>\n

Matt Dunstone will wear the Maple Leaf for the first time after winning his first Brier earlier this month in St. John\u2019s, N.L.<\/p>\n

Canada opens Friday afternoon against South Korea.<\/p>\n

After finishing third in November\u2019s Olympic trials, Einarson claimed her fifth Canadian title Feb. 1 in Mississauga, Ont.<\/p>\n

Her team earned the right to return to the 2027 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Charlottetown as Team Canada.<\/p>\n

Einarson was noncommittal on the team\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know yet. I\u2019m not sure,\u201d the skip said. \u201cI\u2019m not getting any younger either. I\u2019m definitely not retiring, so we\u2019ll see what happens going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Team Canada skip Kerri Einarson, centre, delivers a stone against Switzerland as lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1064,1051,1065,1042,1040,1066,563,1039,1057,1058,1054,1041,1038,39,1062,457,1056,1049,1077,1043,1044,70,1052,1053,899,1067,1047,1072,1073,1075,1070,1074,1068,1071,1045,1060,1061,69,1059,1069,1050,17,789,1063,1055,1048,1046,1076],"class_list":["post-36825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-switzerland","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36825","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=36825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}