GANGNEUNG, South Korea, March 29, 2009 (CCA/WCF)— Bingyu Wang gave China its first world curling championship on Sunday at the Gangneung International Ice Rink.

Wang’s team from Harbin — third Yin Liu, second Qingshuang Yue and lead Yan Zhou — defeated Anette Norberg of Sweden 7-6 in the gold-medal game of the Mount Titlis world women’s championship.

Last year, the Chinese, whose coach Dan Rafael is from Montreal, lost the gold-medal game to Canada’s Jennifer Jones in the Ford worlds at Vernon, B.C.

“We lost the final last year, and we really wanted to get the gold,” said Wang, 24. “Everybody worked hard; it was a long week.”

China was in control the whole way, scoring deuces in the fourth, sixth and eighth ends. In the 10th, Sweden had two rocks in the rings but Wang removed both with her final delivery to clinch the gold.

“I was a little nervous and a little excited (before the final), but I just told myself, one more game,” said Wang. “Don’t think too much. Just play Sweden, and we played well.”

The game was shown at 3 a.m. Atlantic on TSN2, and will be repeated at 8 p.m. Atlantic on TSN.

Earlier on Sunday, Denmark’s Angelina Jensen captured the bronze medal, beating Jones’s Team Canada foursome 7-6.

The Ford women’s worlds return to Canada next year; the 2010 edition will be staged in Swift Current, Sask.

The Ford world men’s championship begins Saturday in Moncton, N.B.