Olympics 2018: Bronze: Japanese women curler wins first Olympic medal

The Japanese women curlers won their first Olympic medal ever at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

The team around Skip Satsuki Fujisawa won the match for third place in front of 2000 spectators against European champion Great Britain with 5:3.

The Scottish women around Skip Eve Muirhead missed their second bronze medal after Sochi in 2014. At a score of 3:4, the 27-year-old Muirhead had it in her own hands with the last stone of the game to win the game with two stones won. However, she managed to get her own well-positioned stone out of the house, so the last game was 1:0 for the Asians.

Earlier on Saturday, the men’s gold medal went to the USA for the first time at the Olympic Games. Skip John Shuster led his team to a surprising 10:7 victory over Sweden in the final with Skip Niklas Edin, who had won bronze in Sochi in 2014. The third place went to Switzerland.

For the first time since the resumption of curling in the 1998 Olympic program (Nagano) Germany was not represented in any competition.