Canada in battle for playoff spot at 2025 World Wheelchair Curling Championships

STEVENSTON, Scotland (Curling Canada) Wednesday was a great day of curling at the 2025 World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Stevenston, Scotland, that started strong for Team Canada. The Canadians had the ice figured out Wednesday morning with a 6-3 win against Slovakia; however, they came up short 5-4 in a tight game against Team Sweden in the evening.

“I think today it was much better than we’ve seen on that sheet,” said lead Collinda Joseph (Stittsville, Ont.) after their win. “It was good to play on it knowing that we understood what would happen later in the game because of the experience that we had already, so I think it worked in our favour today. I was really happy we walked away with the win.”

Past games against Slovakia have also witnessed some of Canada’s best curling, with the last time the two teams faced off being at the 2024 World Wheelchair Curling Championship in South Korea, when Canada closely survived a 6-4 win that ended with a missed opportunity for Slovakia. At the 2022 Paralympics, Canada and Slovakia played a great game for the bronze medal that was won for a Canadian team with credit to fourth Jon Thurston (Dunsford, Ont.).

The evening’s match between Canada and Sweden went back and forth with some great curling from both sides on improved ice conditions, but it ended with Sweden scoring the winning point in an extra end.

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