The curling competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics will feature a total of 30 teams. There will be 10 teams participating in each of the three disciplines: Men's, Women's, and Mixed Doubles. In the Men's and Women's events, each team will consist of 5 athletes, while the Mixed Doubles teams will have 2 athletes each. This means that up to 120 athletes will be competing across all disciplines.

Summary Final summary As the host country of the 2026 Winter Olympics, Italy will have teams participating in all three disciplines of curling. This marks Italy's second participation in the Women's event, with their previous appearance dating back to the last time Italy hosted the Winter Olympics in 2006. It will also mark Estonia's debut in curling at the Olympics.

Nations Men Women Mixed doubles Athletes 12 10 7 5 2 5 12 12 5 7 7 12 12 12 Total: 14 NOCs 10 10 10 120

Men Means of qualificationDates Location Quotas QualifiedHost nationcolspan=2 1 Qualification points at the 2024 & 2025 World Championships 30 March–7 April 2024 Schaffhausen, Switzerland7 29 March–6 April 2025 Moose Jaw, CanadaOlympic Qualification Event6–13 December 2025 Kelowna, Canada 2 Total 10

Women Means of qualificationDates Location Quotas QualifiedHost nationcolspan=2 1 Qualification points at the 2024 & 2025 World Championships 16–24 March 2024 Sydney, Canada7 15–23 March 2025 Uijeongbu, South KoreaOlympic Qualification Event6–13 December 2025 Kelowna, Canada 2 Total 10

Mixed doubles Means of qualificationDates Location Quotas QualifiedHost nationcolspan=2 1 Qualification points at the 2024 & 2025 World Championships 20–27 April 2024 Östersund, Sweden7 26 April–3 May 2025 Fredericton, CanadaOlympic Qualification Event13–18 December 2025 Kelowna, Canada 2 Total 10

Qualification timeline Source:

Event Date Venue2024 World Women's Curling Championship 16–24 March 2024 Sydney, Canada2024 World Men's Curling Championship 30 March–7 April 2024 Schaffhausen, Switzerland2024 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 20–27 April 2024 Östersund, Sweden2025 World Women's Curling Championship 15–23 March 2025 Uijeongbu, South Korea2025 World Men's Curling Championship 29 March–6 April 2025 Moose Jaw, Canada2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 26 April–3 May 2025 Fredericton, Canada2025 Pre-Olympic Qualification Event 7–11 October 2025 Aberdeen, Great Britain2025 Olympic Qualification Event 6–19 December 2025 Kelowna, Canada

Qualification system Qualification to the curling tournaments at the Winter Olympics will be determined through two methods. Nations will qualify teams by earning qualification points from performances at the 2024 and 2025 World Curling Championships. Teams will also qualify through an Olympic qualification event which will be held in December 2025. Seven nations will qualify teams via World Championship qualification points, while two nations will qualify through a qualification event to be held in December 2025. As host nation, Italy qualified teams automatically, thus making a total of ten teams per discipline in the curling tournaments.

In case of a tie in qualification points, the following criteria will be employed to resolve such ties: firstly, preference will be given to the nation that most recently appeared at the World Championship; secondly, if necessary, preference will be given to the nation that performed better at the 2025 World Championship, if that is a tie then whichever nation performed better at the 2024 World Championship will win the tie; and finally, if neither of the first two criteria suffice, a playoff will be arranged between the tied teams at a time and venue determined by World Curling.

Qualification points

The qualification points are allotted based on the nations' final rankings at the Men's and Women's World Championships. The points are distributed as follows: Final rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Points 15 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

The qualification points are allotted based on the nations' final rankings at the Mixed Doubles World Championships. The points are distributed as follows: Final rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Points 27 23 20 18 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Note: Scotland, England and Wales all compete separately in international curling. By an agreement between the curling federations of those three home nations, only Scotland can score Olympic qualification points on behalf of Great Britain.

Qualification events

In order to qualify for the Olympic Qualification Event in the Men's and Women's disciplines, a nation must be ranked between 9th and 13th (or between 8th and 12th if Italy is not ranked in the top 8 teams of the discipline) based on the combined results of the 2024 and 2025 World Curling Championships. Alternatively, they can qualify by finishing in the top 3 at the Pre-Olympic Qualification Event. To be eligible for the Pre-Olympic Qualification Event, a nation must not have already qualified for the Olympics or the Olympic Qualification Event. They must have also qualified for either the 2024 or 2025 World Men's or Women's Championships, or have qualified in the A division of the 2024 or 2025 European Curling Championship or Pan Continental Curling Championships.

In the Mixed Doubles event, a nation can qualify for the Olympic Qualification Event by participating in either the 2024 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship or the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. There will be no Pre-Olympic Qualification Event for this discipline. However, if the Olympic Qualification Event has less than 16 teams participating, the World Curling Federation Mixed Doubles Rankings as of May 1, 2025 will be used to determine the remaining berths until there are at least 16 teams participating in the Olympic Qualification Event.

Qualification results KeyNation Qualified for the Olympic Games as hostNation Qualified for the Olympic Games via Qualification Points from the 2024 & 2025 World ChampionshipsNation Qualified for the Olympic Games via the Olympic Qualification EventNation Qualified for the Olympic Qualification EventNation Qualified for the 2026 Winter Olympics

Men

Country20242025Total PointsPre-OQEOQE2026 WOGPlacePointsPlacePoints41011525→21331124→1155924→7721320→598615→31110415→1046812→957712→6811311→1X41010→2113958→3X1221313→4X86X6→5XXX016X131X137XXX028XXX04XXX12225XXXX06XXXX07XX

Women

Country20242025Total PointsPre-OQEOQE2026 WOGPlacePointsPlacePoints11511530→21321326→31141021→595918→687715→866814→41010414→X31111→113958→1771229→2958611→3XXX024X1041137→5X122X2→6XXX037XXX018XXX04XXXX05XXX13116XXXX07XX131X1XX

Mixed doubles

Country20242025Total PointsOQE2026 WOGPlacePointsPlacePoints22341841→12771441→81312740→61522338→32081333→51661531→ 418111028→101151627→16516510→171412923→215632026→3X12917413→4X91213820→5X13819210→6X14715613→7X1741837→8X111014717→9X19291214→10XXX01611XXX02612XX101111→13X183X3→14X2012012→15XXX024X

Note: Scotland, England and Wales compete separately at international level in curling. By an agreement between the curling federations of those three nations, only Scotland can score Olympic qualification points on behalf of Great Britain.

National qualifying events Some countries selected their teams through trial qualification tournaments.

2025 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials 2025 Czech Olympic mixed doubles curling trials 2025 Japanese Olympic curling trials 2025 Japanese Olympic mixed doubles curling trials 2025 Korean Curling Championships 2025 Korean Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2025 United States Olympic Curling Trials 2025 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials

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