VIRGINIA – Canada’s Brad Jacobs won the men’s Pan Continental Curling Championship with a 7-3 win over John Schuster of the United States on Sunday.

The Pan Continental is a regional qualifier for countries for the 2026 men’s and women’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 berth for Canada next year in Ogden City, Utah.

Jacobs, third Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert out of Calgary’s Glencoe Club did more than that with a steal of two in the 10th end to secure the victory over Schuster, who skipped the U.S. to gold in the 2018 Olympic Games.

The Canadians went undefeated in Virginia, Minn., and earned their country’s third gold medal in four years

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