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By rdnewsNOW staff

One step closer

Peterman, Gallant clinch playoff spot at 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship

May 1, 2025 | 11:36 AM

Red Deer’s Jocelyn Peterman and her husband, Brett Gallant have secured a playoff spot at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

The duo, who calls Chestermere, Alta. home, is in second place in the Group A standings with a 7-1 record with one more game remaining in the round robin at 11 a.m. on Thursday against Scotland’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Moaut.

They clinched the playoff spot on Wednesday night in Fredericton, B.C. at Willie O’Ree Place with a 9-4 win over China’s Yu Han and Zhiyu Wang.

Peterman and Gallant are competing for their third world championship, winning silver in 2019. This time around they’re gunning for the gold medal.

“Any time you’re at a world championship, the goal is to win,” said Gallant in a media release. “When you’re not standing on the top, there’s always a desire to be higher up, so, you know, it motivates us. We train as hard as we do to try to get to the top.

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“We know it’s difficult, and it’s not easy — it never is. But that’s always the goal, so, for sure, that’s the goal again this week, and it’s going to be a challenge.”

The pair is also battling for a spot in the mixed doubles competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, Italy.

The Canadians have yet to clinch the spot but they’re inching closer. Peterman believes they’re in a good spot heading into the weekend.

“I think so,” she said. “I think we’re making a lot of shots, we’re communicating well and trying to figure out the ice together, and we’re picking up on it. We’re working well as a team, so that’s all you can ask.”

Each team played a nine-game round robin with the top three teams from each group advancing to the playoffs.

The first-place teams in each group receive a bye to the semifinals, which are scheduled for Friday at 6 p.m.

The second- and third-place teams cross over for qualification games Friday at 9 a.m, from which the winners advance to the semifinals.

The winners of those games go to the gold-medal game Saturday at 1 p.m., and the losing teams compete in the bronze-medal game Saturday at 8:30 a.m.