Early in the morning Britain's women’s curlers beat Denmark 7-6 to make it through to the final against Switzerland with the men beating Norway 9-7 to also book their final spot against Switzerland.

 

In the final, the women always looked in control and dominated the match winning 8-4. 

 

The game swung to the British women after aggressive tactics, resulting in three on the fifth end. 

 

Leading 8-4 playing the final end, the team ran the Swiss team out of stones clinch the gold medal.

 

Skip Anna Sloan, who had carried Britain's flag in the opening ceremony, said: “I am so pleased with this result. 

 

"We knew this was our only chance to get this medal here and now. 

 

"We wouldn’t have been happy with anything else apart from the gold, so we went all out and played fantastically as a team”.

 

The team were coached by Debbie Knox, who herself won an Olympic gold medal in curling at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games seven years ago.

 

She said: “I am really proud of the girls, the whole team pulled together to win this gold medal today.

 

"We have a really strong set of curlers here to watch out for in the future.

 

"I enjoyed this more than winning my own Olympic gold medal, it has been such an amazing and enjoyable experience for me to coach these players”.

 

Britain's male curlers fought a closely contested match that went down to the last stone with the Swiss team scoring two in the final end to win the match 6-5.

 

Skip Colin Dick said: “We played well and it was a close match but we were unlucky and didn’t take our chances."