16 February 2026
Sweden remain on top form at Olympic Winter Games
Sweden took another big step towards semi-final qualification with a 6-4 win over Switzerland in Monday morning’s seventh women’s round-robin session.
Sweden opened with last stone advantage and, after blanking the first end, were forced to score one in the second end when their skip Anna Hasselborg played a tap-back into a busy house.
Switzerland responded with a raise take-out by their fourth player Alina Paetz in the third, scoring two points for a 2-1 lead.
Sweden scored two in the fourth end with a draw by Hasselborg, then Switzerland had to settle for just one point in the fifth when the final raise attempt by Paetz came up short. This put the teams into the break level at 3-3.
Hasselborg then cleared out a Swiss stone in the sixth end to score one, for 4-3.
Switzerland blanked the seventh before Sweden had a single point steal in the eighth, for a 5-3 lead, when Paetz came up short again with her final stone. The Swiss could only muster a single point in the ninth, through a take-out by Paetz.
This meant that Sweden went into the tenth end holding a 5-4 advantage and with last stone. Eventually, Hasselborg cleared out some Swiss stones, leaving her own to score the one point that gave her team their 6-4 win.
Switzerland now sit on six wins and no losses at the top of the table, while Switzerland share third place with Republic of Korea on three wins and two losses, just behind second-placed United States of America.
After this win, Hasselborg said, “That was a good performance. We started the game with hammer, so that was huge against this very well-drilled team. Before the game, all we wanted was to have hammer in the last, and we did. We were playing well and we went pretty hard offensively. We made a lot of good draws today, but I never felt in control until the last end when we had hammer.”
She added, “It feels amazing coming out on top today. The thing here is to be present and in the moment. If anything, that adds a little more pressure because we’re not thinking about our previous wins.”
Great Britain were 7-2 winners over Denmark in this session, a second win so far that keeps their semi-final hopes alive.
Great Britain started well when their fourth player Rebecca Morrison opened the scoring with two points with a take-out in the first end. Denmark could only score one in the second end and then, after blanking the third, Morrison played a draw in the fourth to score one more and improve her team’s lead to 3-1.
Denmark scored one in the fifth but Morrison played another draw in the sixth, scoring two points this time to move onto a 5-2 lead.
After this, two single-point steals in the seventh and eighth ends for Great Britain were enough to persuade Denmark to concede, with a final score of 7-2 to the Brits.
Speaking later British skip Sophie Jackson said, “That was a very important win. We know we’ve had a couple of losses now and we can’t afford to have too many more. It was really important to win that game against Denmark. They’ve been playing well and they’ve got some wins on the board.”
Speaking about the game itself, she added, “Our fourth player (Rebecca Morrison) was playing at 100% according to our coach’s stats — it’s unbelievable to see that sort of game from her.
She then added, “We’ve been at this kind of won-loss record at Championships before. We’re feeling good, we know we just need to keep believing in how we can perform.”
The third game of this session saw People’s Republic of China face Canada.
The Canadians put their stamp on this game in the fourth end when, with the Chinese leading by 2-0, Canada skip Rachel Homan scored four points with a double take-out, to take a 4-2 lead. Later, in the sixth end, another take-out by Homan gave Canada three more points for a 7-3 scoreline on the way to a 10-5 victory.
This second win for Canada keeps them in the hunt for semi-final places, in joint sixth place alongside People’s Republic of China and Great Britain.
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