TOURNAMENT NEWS
Jones wins women's world championship

Colleen Jones won her first world championship against Sweden's Anette Norberg. (CP Photo)

Colleen Jones's rink from Halifax's Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax have once and for all put their past disappointments behind them at the world championships.

Jones scored one with the hammer in the 10th end to clinch a 5-2 victory over Sweden's Anette Norberg in the women's final for her first world title in three trips to the world championships.

It was the second straight women's world championships for Canada and the 12th for Canada overall.

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WOMEN'S FINAL	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TOTAL
Canada	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	5
Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2

Sweden wins men's title; Ferbey loses bronze medal match

Randy Ferbey throws his rock down the ice. (CP Photo)

Curling fans who think that the men's world championship is Canada's to lose haven't had a good look at Sweden's Peter Lindholm. The Swedish skip won his second world title in five years by beating Andreas Schwaller of Switzerland 6-3 in the men's final on Sunday.

Lindholm was also the runner-up to Canadians Wayne Middaugh in 1998 and Greg McAulay in 2000, and stacks up as an early favourite for the gold medal for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Meanwhile, the Canadian rink skipped by Randy Ferbey just couldn't get themselves all the way back up for the bronze medal game after the terrible letdown they suffered Saturday with their controversial semifinal loss to Schwaller.

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OUR EXPERTS 1998 Olympic gold medallist Joan McCusker and 1998 Olympic silver medallist Mike Harris offer their curling insight for the Scott Tournament of Hearts. McCusker has curled for more than 20 years, is a former member of the Sandra Schmirler Saskatchewan rink that captured gold in Nagano and is considered one of the best ever by many. She won three World Championships (the only rink ever to accomplish the feat) and three Scott Tournament of Hearts (1993, 1994 and 1997), curling second on the Schmirler rink. Harris, a Toronto native, was the Skip of the Canadian team that took home the silver medal at the Nagano Winter Olympics. Team Harris qualified to represent Canada at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games by capturing the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in November 1997. Harris' full-time job is as a golf professional at the Waterside Golf Academy

• Sat., Apr. 7
2-5:30 p.m. (ET)
Women's Final

• Sun., Apr. 8
9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.(ET)
Men's Final