The Swedish team booked their place in tomorrow's final with a 6-3 defeat of Canada in the semi-final.

The winners opened the scoring in the first end with a single-point steal before Canada levelled at 1-1 in the second end.

However, Sweden dominated from there on, scoring two points in the third end and again in the fifth end for a 5-2 lead.

There was another point steal for Sweden in the sixth end, with Canada taking a consolation point in the eighth, to reduce Sweden's lead to 6-3.

Sweden skip Niklas Edin blanked in the ninth end before he ran Canada out of stones in the tenth end to secure the win.

"It's been quite a day today," Edin said.

"We've had a great second half of this event and it only feels like we're getting stronger.

"Now we're looking forward to the final tomorrow.

Sweden beat Finland in 3v4 play-off to qualify for semi-final against Canada ©WCF/CC/Michael Burns



"The way our team played we were never going to lose this game.

"I think that was the strongest performance from our team so far and I'm really proud of how we played today."

Canada, meanwhile, will play Finland, who fell to Sweden 7-4 in today's early session, for the bronze medal tomorrow.

"We have one more game and we surely want to win a medal," Finland's skip Aku Kauste said.

"It would mean a lot for us.

"I don't know about the other play-off teams, they are all world champions, so they probably don't care about any other medals than the gold, but bronze would be really big for us."

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