GANGNEUNG, South Korea, March 29, 2009 (CCA) — Canada’s Jennifer Jones lost 7-6 to Denmark’s Angelina Jensen in the bronze-medal game at the Mount Titlis world women’s curling championship Sunday morning at the Gangneung International Ice Rink.
It marked just the fifth time in 31 years at the world women’s championship that Canada finished without a medal.
Denmark scored three in the fifth end, and was up 6-3 through seven ends. But Canada came back to tie it going into the 10th end. Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont, who throws last rock, made a perfect freeze on her first throw of the 10th, and Jones couldn’t remove it, giving the winning point to Denmark.
“They played very well today, and they can get a lot more movement out of their rocks,” said Jones, who’s backed up by third Cathy Overton-Clapham, second Jill Officer and lead Dawn Askin (Jennifer Clark-Rouire is the alternate, while Janet Arnott is the coach). “We just couldn’t follow them down on the last one. Perfect weight and it just didn’t curl enough. It’s disappointing, hugely disappointing, but hopefully we’ll be back.”