Sporting Digest: Curling

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Geneva): Men: Fifth round: Switzerland (skip D Wueest) bt Denmark (G Larsen) 10-6; Germany (W Burba) bt Australia (H Millikin) 12-3; Scotland (D Smith) bt United States (S Baird) 11-0; Norway (T Andreassen) bt France (C Feige) 14-4; Canada (R Howard) bt Sweden (P Lindholm) 9-8 in an extra end. Sixth round: Australia bt Scotland 7-3; Denmark bt Norway 8-5; Canada bt Switzerland 9-5; United States bt Sweden 8-4; France bt Germany 5-4. Women: Sixth round: Canada (S Peterson) bt Japan (M Seguchi) 12-3; Sweden (E Johansson) bt Scotland (C Cannon) 7-4; Norway (D Nordby) bt England (S Gray) 8-6; Switzerland (J Hurlimann) bt United States (S O'Brien) 9-5; Germany (J Strayer) bt Finland (J Jokela) 10-7.