Get to know the teams competing at this year’s men’s world curling championships [Video]

Brad Jacobs and his Alberta-based team will represent Canada at the BKT Tires World Men’s Curling Championship starting Saturday at the Moose Jaw Events Centre.

Here’s a capsule look at the 13 teams in the field (countries in alphabetical order, athletes from skip to lead):

AUSTRIA

Mathias Genner, Jonas Backofen, Martin Reichel, Florian Mavec

Austria is making its first world championship appearance since 2002. Genner competed at the Youth Olympic Games in 2012.

CANADA

Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert

The host team earned the right to wear the Maple Leaf by winning the recent Montana’s Brier in Kelowna, B.C. Canada hasn’t won gold at this event since Brad Gushue was victorious in 2017 at Edmonton.

WATCH | Jacobs wins Brier against Team Dunstone:

Trailing with the last rock in the final end, Brad Jacobs squeezed in a great shot to score three and down Matt Dunstone’s Team Manitoba. 

CHINA

Xiaoming Xu, Xueqing Fei, Zhiyu Wang, Zhichao Li

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