Canada’s Peterman and Gallant return to winning ways at 2025 World Mixed Doubles

It was the perfect response to ease any lingering disappointment from Canada’s first loss at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

The Chestermere, Alta., duo of Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant rolled to an 11-6 win over South Korea’s Kyeongae Kim and Jihoon Seong Tuesday afternoon at Willie O’Ree Place in Fredericton, N.B.

The win left Canada with a 5-1 record, tied for second place in its 10-team round-robin pool with Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson, behind the unbeaten Italian team of Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner (6-0).

Just as important as the result was in the standings, it was equally important to get back on the win train after Canada lost its first game of the 2025 World Mixed Doubles in frustrating fashion Monday night to Italy.

The debrief session with team coach Renee Sonnenberg and national coach Scott Pfeifer was valuable, said Gallant.

“I think there were a few learning points from last night’s game,” he said. “Maybe overthrowing a few of my runbacks — honestly we just missed a few of them by hairs; we were really close. So it wasn’t like we wanted to change too much, but maybe throw them all softer just so we can manage them a little bit with our sweeping.

“Even though that was a frustrating loss, we still had a lot of confidence coming into this game because we did a lot of things right in that game and I think we picked up kind of where we left off today.”

That was on display against South Korea, which dropped to 1-5 with the loss.

The teams traded deuces in the first two ends, and then Peterman made a last-shot raise-tap to score three in the third and Canada never trailed again.

There was another exchange of deuces, and then in the seventh, Canada’s power play netted four points on Peterman’s last-rock takeout, which was enough to prompt handshakes.

Peterman and Gallant showed they could adapt, both on their sweeping and broom placement, as they were consistently sweeping to produce more curl in the first half of the game. They solved that issue as the game went on.

“We were communicating the whole time and checking in on how we’re sweeping,” said Peterman. “We noticed right away that we were doing a lot of carving early and just made the adjustment with the broom placement.”

Each 10-team group is playing a nine-game round robin, and the top three teams from each group will advance to the playoffs. The first-place teams in each group receive a bye to the semifinals. The second- and third-place teams cross over for qualification games from which the winners advance to the semifinals. The winners of those games go to the gold-medal game, and the losing teams compete in the bronze-medal game. 

“We’re right where we want to be,” said Peterman. “We never thought with the pool that we’re in that this would be an undefeated week. We know we have a battle every game and we have three more round-robin games to go.”

Two of them will be dealt with on Wednesday. First up at 9 a.m. (all times Eastern) is the Finnish tandem of Lotta Immonen and Markys Sipila (4-2), followed by a 5 p.m. matchup against China’s Yu Han and Zhiyu Wang (2-4)

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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The French version of this story will be posted as soon as possible at www.curling.ca/?lang=fr