Curlers Peterman, Gallant 1st athletes named to Canada's 2026 Olympic team

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 05, 2025 11:46 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Curlers Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant are the archetypal athletes named to Canada's squad for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

The husband-and-wife squad from Chestermere, Alta., volition correspond Canada successful mixed doubles curling astatine the Games, Curling Canada and the Canadian Olympic Team announced Monday.

Peterman and Gallant provisionally earned their information to the Olympic squad by winning the Canadian mixed doubles trials successful January.

They secured Canada's spot successful the Olympic tourney with a sixth-place decorativeness past week astatine the satellite mixed doubles curling title successful Fredericton.

 "To beryllium an Olympian erstwhile is amazing, but to person the accidental to bash it twice, and besides to bash it with my hubby arsenic a teammate, volition beryllium a existent privilege, and we conscionable can't hold to beryllium successful Italy adjacent year. We're excited astir the roadworthy successful beforehand of us, and we volition beryllium doing everything we tin to hole ourselves for the Olympics," said Peterman.

Seven countries joined big Italy successful the 10-team tract based connected qualification points from combined placements astatine the 2024 and 2025 mixed doubles championships.

The last 2 spots volition beryllium filled pursuing a December qualification lawsuit successful Kelowna, B.C.

Mixed doubles curling volition instrumentality spot Feb. 4-10 n Cortina d'Ampezzo.

"Since Jocelyn and I started playing mixed doubles, it's been our imagination to correspond Canada astatine the Winter Olympics arsenic teammates, and we're going to clasp this opportunity. We admit that Curling Canada adjusted its qualifying process for mixed doubles successful bid to supply much clip to get ourselves acceptable for the Games, and we'll beryllium utilizing that clip to the champion of our quality to beryllium successful highest signifier successful Italy," said Gallant.

Canada has besides secured spots successful the women's and men's Olympic curling events based connected its combined ranking astatine the 2024 and 2025 satellite championships for each gender.

The four-person teams volition beryllium determined astatine the 2025 Canadian curling trials that volition instrumentality spot successful Halifax from Nov. 22-30.