Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials

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The Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials, known until 2025 as the Canad Inns Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials for sponsorship reasons, occur every four years, in the year preceding the Winter Olympic Games. These trials have been used to determine the Canadian representatives in the year's Winter Olympic Games since mixed doubles curling was added to the Olympic program for the 2018 Winter Olympic games. [1]

For the 2018 and 2022 Mixed Doubles Trials, members of Canada's Olympic four-player teams were are not eligible to compete or be named to both the four-player team and mixed doubles events because of the rigours of the Olympic curling schedule. If a player's teammate qualified for the Olympics as part of a four-player team, the player had to name a replacement to compete alongside them in the Trials. This however changed in 2025, where winners of the Mixed Doubles Trials will have the option of also competing for their four-player teams at the Olympics, should they qualify in both events. [2]

Champions

TrialsWinning TeamRunners UpLocationPlacing at Olympics
2018 Flag of Manitoba.svg Kaitlyn Lawes / Flag of Alberta.svg John Morris Flag of Alberta.svg Val Sweeting / Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador.svg Brad Gushue Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Gold medal icon.svg Gold
2022 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada [3]
Flag of Alberta.svg Rachel Homan and John Morris chosen for Olympics
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba 5th
2025 Flag of Alberta.svg Jocelyn Peterman / Brett Gallant Flag of Alberta.svg Rachel Homan / Brendan Bottcher Liverpool, Nova Scotia TBD

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References

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  2. "NEW DATES, UPDATED QUALIFYING PROCESS FOR CANADIAN MIXED DOUBLES OLYMPIC TRIALS". Curling Canada . Retrieved October 17, 2024.
  3. "Curling Canada cancels mixed doubles Olympic trials due to COVID-19 cases among athletes". CBC. December 26, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2021.