Canada’s Brad Jacobs won the men’s Pan Continental Curling Championship with a 7-3 win over John Shuster of the United States on Sunday in Virginia, Minn.
The Pan Continental is a regional qualifier for countries for next year’s world championships.
Jacobs, whose team took the bronze medal at the 2025 world championship in April, needed to place among the top four teams to secure a 2026 berth for Canada.
On Thursday, Jacobs, third Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert out of Calgary’s Glencoe Club clinched a spot at worlds for a Canadian team in Ogden City, Utah with an 8-2 rout of Australia’s Hugh Millikin.
Defending champion Rachel Homan was scheduled to face China’s Rui Wang in the women’s Pan Continental final on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. ET.
As the host country, Canada is already assured a berth in the women’s world championship March 14-22, 2026, in Calgary.
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