Rachel Homan's Canadian curling team has won the women's world championship with a 7-3 victory over Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni in Uijeongbu, South Korea.
Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes from the Ottawa Curling Club became the first Canadian team to repeat as women's world champions since Sandra Schmirler's team did it in 1993 and 1994.
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Homan defeated Tirinzoni in the world championship final a second straight year after a 7-5 victory over the Swiss side in Sydney, N.S., in 2024.
Homan and Miskew claimed their third career world titles after also winning it in 2017 in Beijing.
It was the second world gold for Fleury and Wilkes.
Homan has a berth in November's Olympic trials in Halifax where her team will attempt to win the right to represent Canada at next year's Winter Olympic Games in Italy.
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