The Scottish pair of Hugh Nibloe and Charlotte McKenna have reached Sunday’s ultimate on the World Wheelchair Curling Combined Doubles Championships on house soil, with a dramatic win over South Korea.
The 6-5 victory in Stevenston additionally secures Nice Britain’s place within the occasion at subsequent 12 months’s Winter Paralympics in Milan-Cortina, the place it’s going to make its debut.
Britain had already certified for the workforce occasion, due to Scotland’s performances over the past three years.
Nibloe, who represented GB on the 2022 Video games in Beijing, and McKenna went into the event understanding they wanted to succeed in the medal matches to assemble sufficient qualification factors to earn one of many seven qualifying locations.
They completed second of their pool earlier than dispatching Czechia 10-4 within the quarter-finals and coming from 4-1 down in opposition to the Koreans, who had been unbeaten within the group phases, to attain two within the ultimate finish.
GB will face Japan in Sunday’s gold medal match.
“I assume it has been in the back of our minds all week that Paralympic qualification was primarily what we had been right here to do, however we did not suppose at any level that we’d have needed to make the ultimate to ensure that qualification, so the burden that is come off our shoulders now’s enormous,” stated Nibloe.
“We’re completely delighted that there will probably be seven wheelchair curlers going to the Paralympics subsequent 12 months.
“It is opened up a complete lot extra competitors inside our squad and hopefully this can drive everyone else on.”
