Great Britain's men's curlers were denied a historic gold medal following a crushing defeat by Canada in Sochi.
Canada completed a hat-trick of victories dating back to the 2006 Turin Games with a dominant 9-3 triumph.
A win for skip David Murdoch's team would have given Britain more than one gold medal at a Winter Olympics for the first time.
Silver means Team GB have won four medals in Sochi, matching their best ever Winter Games haul in 1924.
It follows Lizzy Yarnold's skeleton gold and bronze medals for snowboard slopestyler Jenny Jones as well as the women's curling.
After winning five and losing four of their round robin fixtures Great Britain's men only made it through to the knock-out phase after coming through a tense play-off against Norway.
Three-time Olympian Murdoch then inspired them to an impressive win over reigning world champions Sweden in Wednesday's semi-finals.
However, the signs were ominous for Great Britain from the opening end where they found themselves 2-0 down, which became 5-1 after just three ends with Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews and Michael Goodfellow appearing to be suffering from nerves.
The interval break after five ends failed to revitalise Great Britain's fortunes as the slipped 8-2 behind before conceding defeat with two regulation ends remaining and the score at 9-3.
'We just never got off to a good start,' said Murdoch. ".