South Korea join Canada and Sweden in curling worlds play-offs

BySportsbeat

Published 23/03/2018 at 09:14 GMT

South Korea joined Canada and Sweden in the play-offs of the World Women's Curling Championship on Tuesday night.

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Table toppers Canada remain unbeaten in front of their home crowd in North Bay, Ontario – downing Italy on Tuesday evening to make it ten from ten under skip Jennifer Jones.

Olympic champions Sweden have also won ten but have played a game more and lost to Canada so slide below them in the standings.

And Korea, with skip Kim Eun-jung in fine form, have also bagged one of the six play-off spots with a 9-5 win over Japan on Tuesday evening.

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Elsewhere, USA beat Germany 7-5 to put themselves in a strong position to make the play-offs as well.

Scotland's rink, with Hannah Fleming in charge, have only won three of their ten games and finish off their campaign on Friday with clashes against South Korea and Sweden.

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