MOOSE JAW – Canada’s Brad Jacobs defeated China’s Xiaoming Xu 11-2 on Sunday to win the bronze medal at the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship.
Jacobs, vice Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert scored three points in the first end and pulled away by scoring five points in the fourth.
“We wanted to come out of this thing strong,” Jacobs said.
Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller will play Scotland’s Bruce Mouat for gold later Sunday at the Temple Gardens Centre.
The host team earned the top seed with an 11-1 round-robin record but lost to the top-ranked Mouat in the semifinals on Saturday.
Jacobs was aggressive from the start in the third-place game, using his first throw to make a nifty split that put the…