1st place tie at world men’s curling championship between Canada, Sweden, Japan

Defending champion Niklas Edin of Sweden remained unbeaten at the world men’s curling championship on Monday after an 8-2 victory over Germany’s Marc Muskatewitz.

The teams shook hands after Edin scored four points in the sixth end.

Edin moved into a first-place tie with Canada’s Kevin Koe, who did not play in the morning draw at the Enmax Centre. Japan’s Yuta Matsumura joined them at 4-0 after posting an 8-7 extra-end win over Jaap Van Dorp of the Netherlands.

Switzerland’s Peter De Cruz was the only other undefeated rink at 3-0 after six draws of round-robin play.

Russia’s Sergey Glukhov topped South Korea’s SooHyuk Kim 6-4 in the other morning game. Glukhov scored a pair to tie it in the 10th and stole two points in the extra end.

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Koe, from Calgary, and teammates B.J. Neufeld, Colton Flasch and Ben Hebert were scheduled to play Norway’s Magnus Ramsfjell in the afternoon.

American John Shuster was in fifth place at 2-1 and the Dutch side was sixth at 2-2. Italy’s Joel Retornaz and Scotland’s Bruce Mouat were next at 1-2 and Germany and Russia were 1-3.

China’s Qiang Zou (0-3), Norway (0-3) and South Korea (0-4) remained winless.

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Round-robin play continues through Friday night. The six-team playoffs begin Saturday and the medal games will be played Sunday.

Edin beat Canada’s Brad Gushue to win gold at last year’s playdowns in Las Vegas.