Bruce Mouat's rink were facing the Swedes for a third consecutive major championship finalHosts: Beijing, China Dates: 4-20 FebruaryCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile appGreat Britain's men's curlers had to settle for Olympic silver as Sweden triumphed 5-4 in a nerve-shredding final to claim gold.
Bruce Mouat's team took a compelling match to an extra end, but Sweden were able to use their last-stone advantage to score one.
Mouat's final shot to try and force a steal did not come off and left Swedish skip Niklas Edin celebrating victory.
It means Britain's 98-year wait for a men's curling gold medal continues.
However, the women's side have the chance to win their competition when they face Japan at 01:05 GMT on Sunday.
"I'm gutted for the boys," British third Bobby Lammie told BBC Sport.
"We fought back well but couldn't get over the line. Looking back it will be a strong week. But right now it hurts."
Lead Hammy McMillan added: "It's not how we wanted to end it. We'll all look back on this and we will be proud, but right now it kind of sucks.
"They started strong - they didn't give us an inch. We probably weren't our best at the start but we fought back hard. We had a good second half to give ourselves a chance."
Swedish skip Edin had billed this as the "clash of the titans" in men's curling as the two sides met in their third consecutive major championship final.
Sweden had claimed the 2021 world title before Bruce Mouat's Scotland team took revenge in the European final in December, and the two sides could barely be separated once again in a match of very high quality.
Britain went behind early on when Sweden took two in the second end and then added a steal of one in the third for a 3-1 lead.
At that stage it looked ominous for Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan, but after clinging to one with the hammer in the next by millimetres, they built their way back into the game.
Trailing 4-3 in the ninth end, they needed a score of two or more to unsettle Sweden, who were set for last-stone advantage in the final end.
But when Edin shut off the chance of two with a magnificent shot, Mouat chose to blank and take the hammer into the last.
And although the British skip rolled in for one to force the extra end, the odds were stacked against them with Sweden having the buffer of the last stone in the decider.
In the end, after tense timeouts from both teams, Mouat was left with a difficult hit and roll shot to try to steal one and the match, but it fell short.
Instead Swedish skip Edin - considered one of the best players of all time - now has the gold medal that eluded him when taking silver and bronze at the past two Olympics.
