Canada’s Rachel Homan on a roll as she looks to defend world women’s curling title [Video]

Rachel Homan and her juggernaut Canadian championship team know their No. 1 world ranking doesn’t guarantee success at the 2025 world women’s curling championship.

But that doesn’t mean Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew and lead Sarah Wilkes won’t be full of confidence when they begin their title defence when the 13-country championship begins Saturday in Uijeongbu, South Korea.

The Homan team has been together for three years and has been dominant over the past 18 months, winning back-to-back Scotties Tournament of Hearts titles and the 2024 world championship in Sydney, N.S.

“We find the more experience we get playing together, the stronger we get,” Fleury said. “We’re all really comfortable with one another now.”

Since Homan returned to competition three weeks after giving birth to her third child in September 2023, the defending world champions reeled off six titles last season and six more in this campaign.

They …