For the second time in their careers, Anna Hasselborg and her women's curling team are Olympic gold medalists.

With a 6-5 victory over Switzerland on Sunday, Hasselborg's squad brought Sweden it's fourth Olympic title, and second in the last three Games. Sweden has now had a women's curling team leave with a medal in six straight Olympics.

"I think it will probably take some time for this to sink in,” said Sweden’s Agnes Knochenhauer. “We’ve been working for this for a long time, and we’ve had many ups and downs along the way and sometimes a hard time believing it’s possible. Coming into this Olympics we felt like we had done all the work that we needed to do and I’m super proud. I think it’s going to take some time for this sink in, but I’m super proud of us.”

Knochenhauer has played in four Olympics, and won a medal in each one.

Switzerland, which won silver for the third time, didn't make it easy for the Swedes. After going into the half down, 3-1, Silvana Tirinzoni's team tied the game twice before Sweden won it on the last stone of the 10th end.

The Swiss were better on draw shots, shooting 90 percent compared to just 82 percent for Sweden. Sweden had a slight edge on takeouts — 36 to 35 for Tirinzoni's team, but Switzerland was slightly better on all shots, shooting 85 percent on the day.

Sweden jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first thanks to takeout shots by Hasselborg on each of her throws.

The two teams blanked each of the second and third ends, and traded singles in the fourth and fifth.

Switzerland evened the score in the sixth. Patz threw a draw that put two Swiss stones on the button ahead of the final throws. Hasselborg responded with a takeout attempt that came up light and only cleared one. Patz was able to play a second draw and make it 3-3 going into the seventh.

Sweden added a single in the seventh, and stole another in the eighth. Hasselborg's final throw was a seemingly big miss because it landed in the middle of nowhere at the top of the 12-foot. It was believed that Patz could easily throw a runback for a double takeout, but she was also unsuccessful. She got the one off the button, but the second Swedish stone didn't roll far enough, and sat inches in front of the Swiss' closest stone.

"It was a very well-played final. Sweden played great," Patz said. "They beat us today, but I think we had our chances. I think the eighth end was the decision... If I make my last shot there we are in a very good position, but that's how curling is. We were on the wrong side of the centimeter. But still a great game from our side. I'm just very, very proud of us, how we handled it."

The deficit didn't seem to faze the Swiss as they did a good job of keeping the house clean to set up a two-point end in the ninth. Both teams had just single rocks biting the back of the 12-foot ahead of Patz hammer throw. Patz took out one to even the score again, 5-5, going into the 10th.

The two teams also kept stones out of the eight-foot for the entire final end. On her last stone, Patz had the difficult job of needing to draw squarely to the button and force a takeout by Hasselborg on her hammer throw. Patz's throw was just a touch light and floated to the back of the four-foot, leaving the button open for Hasselborg. With the gold medal on the line, Hasselborg slid out of the hack and threw the stone on a line down the ice, taking out the last Swiss stone and stopping hers just inside for a score of one and ultimately the win.

The silver is the first Olympic medal for Tirinzoni, a 46-year-old playing in her third Olympics. It's also Switzerland's first women's curling medal since 2006. The country has won three medals in women's curling, all silver.

"It was amazing. You know, that's really a dream come true," Tirinzoni said. "It's maybe not quite the absolutely correct color, but it's pretty nice, so I love it... It's been a battle. I'm disappointed we didn't win gold, but it would be so bad if I was not happy about this silver medal.

"Curling is not an easy sport. Even if we have the potential and the abilities, we also have to prove it on the ice. And we did again."

Sweden's mixed doubles team of Isabella Wrana and Rasmus Wrana also won gold in Cortina. Sweden now has 12 Olympic curling medals, one behind Canada for the most of any country. Canada also left the Milan Cortina Games with two medals — gold in men's curling and silver in women's.

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