Trio of Canadian teams ready for Olympic curling competitions

Canada’s Olympic curling teams are about to begin their quest for a spot on the medal podium when the 2026 Winter Olympics curling competition gets underway later this week in Cortina, Italy.

The Canadian pairing of Jocelyn Peterman and husband Brett Gallant of Chestermere, Alta., will take to the ice at the historic Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium on Wednesday to open mixed doubles competition.

Women’s and men’s team play, with Team Rachel Homan of Ottawa and Team Brad Jacobs of Calgary representing Canada, will get underway a week from Wednesday, on Feb. 11.

Peterman, Gallant, team coach Laine Peters and national coach Scott Pfeifer will make their Milano Cortina 2026 debut Wednesday at 1:05 p.m. (all times Eastern) against Czechia’s Julie Zelingrová and Vit Chabičovský, who didn’t qualify for the Games until December, when they earned a berth at the Olympic Qualifying Event in Kelowna, B.C.

Peterman and Gallant qualified for the Winter Olympics by winning the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials 12 months ago in Liverpool, N.S., and then clinching Canada’s Olympic berth by virtue of their performance at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Championship in Fredericton, N.B.

The mixed doubles, along with the men’s and women’s four-player competitions, will feature 10 countries in pursuit of four playoff berths, with the traditional Olympic semifinal system of first vs. fourth, second vs. third, being used. There will be no tiebreakers at the Olympics.

Canada missed out on the medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, where Canada’s Homan and John Morris placed fifth in the round-robin standings and missed the playoffs. Four years earlier, at the 2018 Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, Morris teamed with Kaitlyn Lawes to claim the first Olympic gold medal awarded in the mixed doubles discipline.

Here is Canada’s mixed doubles schedule in Cortina (all times Eastern):

Wednesday

1:05 p.m. — vs. Czechia (Julie Zelingrová/Vit Chabičovský)

Thursday

8:35 a.m. — vs. Norway (Kristin Skaslien/Magnus Nedregotten)
1:05 p.m. — vs. Italy (Stefania Constantini/Amos Mosaner)

Friday

4:05 a.m. — vs. U.S.A. (Cory Thiesse/Korey Dropkin)

Saturday

4:05 a.m. — vs. Great Britain (Jennifer Dodds/Bruce Mouat)
1:05 p.m. — vs. Estonia (Marie Kaldvee/Harri Lill)

Sunday

8:35 a.m. — vs. Sweden (Isabella Wranå/Rasmus Wranå)
1:05 p.m. — vs. South Korea (Seon-yeong Kim/Yeong-Seok Jeong)

Monday, Feb. 9

4:05 a.m. — vs. Switzerland (Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann/Yannick Schwaller)
12:05 p.m. — Semifinals*

Tuesday, Feb. 10

8:05 a.m. — Bronze-medal game*
12:05 p.m. — Gold-medal game*

*pending qualification

Once mixed doubles competition concludes on Feb. 10, four-player men’s and women’s round-robin games will start on Feb. 11.

Team Homan and Team Jacob claimed their Olympic berths at the 2025 Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials, presented by Connect Hearing, in November in Halifax.

Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachelle Brown, team coach Heather Nedohin and national coach Viktor Kjell are the two-time reigning Canadian and world champions. Homan and Miskew also were at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and missed the playoffs.

Team Jacobs, meanwhile, features a three Olympic gold-medallists. Jacobs skipped Canada to gold in 2014 at Sochi, Russia, while vice-skip Marc Kennedy and lead Ben Hebert were members of Kevin Martin’s 2010 gold-medal team in Vancouver.

Kennedy and Hebert also played at the 2018 Games with Team Kevin Koe and finished fourth, and Kennedy was the alternate for Brad Gushue’s bronze-medal team four years ago in Beijing.

Gallant, meanwhile, will make history as the first Canadian to play in both mixed doubles and team competition. He won bronze with Team Gushue in 2022.

Alternate Tyler Tardi, team coach Paul Webster and national coach Jeff Stoughton round out the team.

Here are the schedules for both teams (all times Eastern):

Women

Thursday, Feb. 12

3:05 a.m. — vs. Denmark (Team Madeleine Dupont)

Friday, Feb. 13

8:05 a.m. — vs. U.S.A. (Team Tabitha Peterson)

Saturday, Feb. 14

3:05 a.m. — vs. Great Britain (Team Rebecca Morrison)
1:05 p.m. — vs. Switzerland (Team Sylvana Tirinzoni)

Monday, Feb. 16

3:05 a.m. — vs. China (Team Rui Wang)
1:05 p.m. — vs. Japan (Team Sayaka Yoshimura)

Tuesday, Feb. 17

8:05 a.m. — vs. Sweden (Team Anna Hasselborg)

Wednesday, Feb. 18

1:05 p.m. — vs. Italy (Team Stefania Constantini)

Thursday, Feb. 19

8:05 a.m. — vs. South Korea (Team Eun-ji Gim)

Friday, Feb. 20

8:05 a.m. — Semifinals*

Saturday, Feb. 21

8:05 a.m. — Bronze-medal game*

Sunday, Feb. 22

5:05 a.m. — Gold-medal game*

*pending qualification

Men

Wednesday, Feb. 11

1:05 p.m. — vs. Germany (Team Marc Muskatewitz)

Friday, Feb. 13

3:05 a.m. — vs. U.S.A. (Team Daniel Casper)
1:05 p.m. — vs. Sweden (Team Niklas Edin)

Saturday, Feb. 14

8:05 a.m. — vs. Switzerland (Team Yannick Schwaller)

Sunday, Feb. 15

1:05 p.m. — vs. China (Team Xiaoming Xu)

Monday, Feb. 16

8:05 a.m. — vs. Czechia (Team Lukáš Klíma)

Tuesday, Feb. 17

1:05 p.m. — vs. Great Britain (Team Bruce Mouat)

Wednesday, Feb. 18

8:05 a.m. — vs. Italy (Team Joel Retornaz)

Thursday, Feb. 19

3:05 a.m. — vs. Norway (Team Magnus Ramsfjell)
1:05 p.m. — Semifinals*

Friday, Feb. 20

1:05 p.m. — Bronze-medal game*

Saturday, Feb. 21

1:05 a.m. — Gold-medal game*

*pending qualification

Curling is the only sport that will be featured on every day of the Olympic competition schedule.

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All of Canada’s games will be broadcast on a variety of platforms by CBC, the official Olympic rights-holder in Canada. CLICK HERE for the CBC broadcast schedule.