Kelowna to host curling Olympic qualification event in December

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Nations seeking to unafraid their spot successful the 2026 Winter Olympic curling events volition vie successful a last qualification tourney successful Kelowna, B.C.

Final 2 places successful each lawsuit astatine Milan-Cortina 2026 to beryllium determined Dec. 6 to 19

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 12, 2025 3:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Nations seeking to unafraid their spot successful the 2026 Winter Olympic curling events volition vie successful a last qualification tourney successful Kelowna, B.C.

The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot from Dec. 6-19.

The last 2 places successful each lawsuit astatine the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games volition beryllium decided astatine the Kelowna Curling Club.

For the men's and women's competition, the National Olympic Committees ranked 9-13 from the ranking database built disconnected the results astatine the 2024 and 2025 satellite championships, on with the apical 3 NOCs from the pre-qualification lawsuit — to beryllium held successful the autumn — volition compete.

Relegation Return? Competition format a talking constituent astatine Brier

The mixed doubles qualification follows a antithetic process. Any nations that qualified for the 2024 and 2025 satellite championships, but did not yet suffice for the Olympics done points astatine these championships oregon by hosting the Games, tin compete.

If determination are less than 16 mixed doubles teams, past the adjacent highest ranked federation from the authoritative satellite ranking list, arsenic of May 1, volition beryllium invited until each 16 spots are filled astatine the qualifying."

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