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Canada’s Tyler Tardi defends men’s world junior curling championship

Feb 23, 2019 | 11:15 AM

LIVERPOOL, N.S. — Tyler Tardi successfully completed the defence of his world title when he led his Canadian team to a 9-4 win over Switzerland in Saturday morning’s men’s gold medal game at the world junior curling championships.

The B.C.-based rink became the first junior men’s team to win back-to-back world titles since 2007.

Tardi was joined by third Sterling Middleton, second Matthew Hall, and lead Alex Horvath, alternate Rylan Kleiter and coach Paul Tardi.

Canadian skip Selena Sturmay wasn’t as successful in the women’s final, falling 8-7 against Russia in an extra end.