Six years ago, Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant came close to becoming world champions together.
The married couple, who compete in mixed doubles together, finished second at the discipline’s world championship in 2019. They lost to Swedes Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson by just one point.
No Canadian team has ever won a world mixed doubles curling championship, but Peterman and Gallant would like to change that.
They’ll represent Canada at the world championship on home ice, beginning on Saturday at Willie O’Ree Place in Fredericton, N.B. The pair earned their spot at Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials in Liverpool, N.S. in January, defeating Rachel Homan and Brendan Bottcher 8-7 in the final.
“I haven’t won a world championship,” Peterman told CBC Sports. “I would love to be a world champion and kind of leave it all on the ice in that sense. We came up just short of that in 2019 and we …