Canada’s Team Jacobs wins gold and Team Homan wins bronze at 2026 Olympic Winter Games

CORTINA d’AMPEZZO, Italy — Canada’s curling teams added two medals to the country’s tally at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Team Brad Jacobs captured gold, while Team Rachel Homan secured bronze at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium on Saturday.

Canada claimed gold with a 9-6 victory over Great Britain’s Team Bruce Mouat in the final.

Trailing by two heading into the 10th end, Team Mouat tried a double on near-frozen stones to tie the score, but managed to remove only one. The result sparked celebrations for skip Jacobs, third/vice-skip Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant, lead Ben Hebert, alternate Tyler Tardi, coach Paul Webster, and national coach Jeff Stoughton.

The pivotal ninth end saw Great Britain miss four doubles, forcing Mouat to attempt a perfect freeze. Team Jacobs capitalized,, scoring three to take a two-point lead into the final frame.

With this win, Jacobs becomes the only male curler to win two Olympic golds as skip.

“I’m really just proud. Proud to be Canadian. Proud to step back on the top of that podium once again,” said Jacobs, who won his first Olympic gold medal in 2014. “It’s been 12 years. It’s been a long time. Curling is Canada’s sport, and I think we just proved that again here today.”

For Kennedy and Hebert, it marks a second Olympic gold after winning in 2010, while Gallant and Tardi celebrate their first.

“It’s amazing. We assembled this team with this one goal in mind, and every time we hit the ice, our main focus is on that team dynamic and supporting one another and doing the little things that, if you do all those things right, it usually ends up in these wins and just these huge moments,” Gallant said. “I’m just proud that we did all that today because that was the hardest game I think I’ve ever curled, just one of the hardest opponents in curling, the number one team in the world. But it was that team dynamic, it was that team unity and that support that led to the gold medal.”

Jacobs’ victory capped off a memorable day for Canadian curling at the Olympics.

Earlier, Team Rachel Homan earned bronze, defeating Team Tabitha Peterson of the United States 10-7.

Team Homan delivered two three-enders to claim Canada’s first women’s curling medal at the Olympics since 2014.

“I’m just so proud to be Canadian. To have the fight that we did this week, and our story of how we got here and how we got an Olympic medal. I’ll forever be proud of that,” Homan said.

The bronze is a significant achievement for skip Homan, third/vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachelle Brown, team coach Heather Nedohin, and national coaches Viktor Kjell and Renée Sonnenberg. After starting the round robin 1-3, they battled back with five consecutive wins to reach the playoffs.

A hit for three in the sixth end gave Canada a two-point cushion. The United States responded with a deuce, but Canada answered with another three in the eighth. The U.S. attempted a triple to limit the damage but could only remove one, allowing Team Homan to draw for three.

On their final shot in the 10th, the United States ticked a guard, leaving Canada’s with the win for bronze.

“It’s such an incredible feeling, and yeah, of course, you don’t want to focus on the outcome and earning medals and all of that,” Wilkes said. “You want to focus on the process on your way there, but for that process to be rewarded with an Olympic medal with this incredible group that we have here is just fantastic. It’s incredible and it just feels so rewarding.”

The women will receive their medals after the women’s gold-medal game on Sunday between Sweden’s Team Anna Hasselborg and Switzerland’s Team Silvana Tirinzoni.

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