Skip Thomas Ulsrud drew his last stone of the Page 1v2 play-off's extra end into the house to score one point, and claim a 7-6 win that guarantees a silver medal for Norway at the very least.

Canada will now face either Sweden, third-place finishers in the round-robin stage, or Finland, 6-5 tie-breaker winners against the United States, in the sole semi-final tomorrow.

The winner will have the opportunity to deny Norway a second successive title after they won the event in Beijing last year.

The holders opened the scoring against Canada with one point in the first end, before opposition skip Pat Simmons hit out a stone to score two points and take a 2-1 lead.

Simmons was facing three Norwegian counters in the fifth end, when he drew his final stone into the house to score one point and establish a 3-2 lead.

Canada then stole a single point in the sixth end, before Ulsrud played an angle raise double take-out in the seventh to secure two points and level the scores at 4-4.

Canada's skip Pat Simmons took solace from the fact his team "live to fight another day" ©WCF




After Canada had scored one point in the eighth end for a 5-4 lead, Ulsrud hit out a Canadian stone to score two points in the ninth and make it 6-5 to the Norwegians. 

Tight all the way, Canada levelled the game at 6-6 with one point in the tenth end, before Ulsrud settled the encounter in the extra end.

"It feels really good because that was a really tight game," said Ulsrud.