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At the conclusion of a busy week, Switzerland ran out winners with a last stone victory by 6-5 over Canada. Canada had led 5-2 coming into the last end and with Switzerland lying 3 shots, they tried to promote one of their stones in amongst the Swiss stones, but only succeeded in cutting it out between two of the Swiss stones. The final Swiss stone was a perfect draw for the win. In a much more straightforward game, China won the Bronze Medal with a 6-2 win over Czech Republic.

Medallists
GOLD- Switzerland
SILVER - Canada
BRONZE - China

Back Row - Jeff Stoughton (Canadian coach), Reid Carruthers (Canada), Martin Rios (Switzerland), Zhipeng Zhang (Chinese coach), Dexin Ba (China)
Front Row - Joanne Courtney (Canada), Laurence Bidaud (Swiss coach), Jenny Perrett (Switzerland), Rui Wang (China)


Olympic Ranking Results
Korea 2 Norway 9, Latvia 1 Finland 7, USA 5 Russia 7,  Scotland 7 Italy 5.
4th - Czech Republic, 5th Norway, 6th Korea, 7th Latvia, 8th Finland, 9th Russia, 10th USA, 11th Scotland, 12th Italy.

These positions, allied to the 2016 Championship results, mean that the 8 qualifiers for the 2018 Winter Olympics are China, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, USA, Norway, Finland and hosts Korea.