Get to know the teams competing at this year's men's world curling championships

Gregory Strong · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 9:38 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Brad Jacobs and his Alberta-based squad volition correspond Canada astatine the BKT Tires World Men's Curling Championship starting Saturday astatine the Moose Jaw Events Centre.

Here's a capsule look astatine the 13 teams successful the tract (countries successful alphabetical order, athletes from skip to lead):

AUSTRIA

Mathias Genner, Jonas Backofen, Martin Reichel, Florian Mavec

Austria is making its archetypal satellite title quality since 2002. Genner competed astatine the Youth Olympic Games successful 2012.

CANADA

Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert

The big squad earned the close to deterioration the Maple Leaf by winning the caller Montana's Brier successful Kelowna, B.C. Canada hasn't won golden astatine this lawsuit since Brad Gushue was victorious successful 2017 astatine Edmonton.

WATCH | Jacobs wins Brier against Team Dunstone:

CHINA

Xiaoming Xu, Xueqing Fei, Zhiyu Wang, Zhichao Li

Xu guided this squad to an upset triumph astatine the Pan Continental playdowns past autumn successful Lacombe, Alta. Gushue represented Canada but settled for a fourth-place finish.

CZECHIA

Lukas Klima, Marek Cernovsky, Martin Jurik, Lukas Klipa

This volition beryllium Klima's 5th quality astatine the men's worlds. His champion grounds was a 5-7 showing successful 2022 astatine Las Vegas.

GERMANY

Marc Muskatewitz, Benjamin Kapp, Felix Messenzehl, Johannes Scheuerl

It has been a breakout play for the reigning European champions, who are present regulars connected the top-flight Grand Slam of Curling circuit.

ITALY

Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella

This squad volition beryllium looking for a beardown effect arsenic portion of the buildup to the Winter Games successful Milan/Cortina, Italy, wherever it volition beryllium the big team. Retornaz guided the squad to a bronze medal past twelvemonth successful Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

JAPAN

Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi

It's the 2nd satellite title quality for this team, which finished seventh astatine the 2023 playdowns successful Ottawa.

SOUTH KOREA

Hyojun Kim, Eunbin Kim, Jeongim Pyo, Jinhun Kim

Just 2 years removed from the satellite inferior championship, each 4 players connected this squad are successful their aboriginal 20s.

NORWAY

Magnus Ramsfjell, Martin Sesaker, Bendik Ramsfjell, Gaute Nepstad

Currently ranked 14th successful the world, Ramsfjell won bronze astatine the European playdowns past year.

SCOTLAND

Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan

The 2023 satellite champions person a comfy pb connected No. 2 Matt Dunstone of Manitoba successful the satellite rankings. The Scots won metallic astatine the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

SWEDEN

Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wranaa, Christoffer Sundgren

The reigning Olympic and satellite champions person had a down play but are loaded with big-game experience. Edin is making his 14th vocation quality astatine this competition.

SWITZERLAND

Yannick Schwaller, Benoit Schwarz-Van Berkel, Sven Michel, Pablo Lachat-Couchepin

Schwaller plays 3rd for this fourth-ranked squad with Schwarz-Van Berkel throwing past rock. The Swiss broadside won bronze 2 years ago.

UNITED STATES

Korey Dropkin, Tom Howell, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner

This is Dropkin's 3rd vocation quality astatine the satellite championship. He finished 4th successful 2022.