Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

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A total of 10 teams in each tournament (5 athletes per team) qualified for a quota of 100 athletes in curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics. A further 8 mixed doubles pairs qualified for a total of 16 athletes. Therefore, a total of 116 athletes qualified in total to compete in the curling competitions.

The curling competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held between 8 and 25 February 2018 at the Gangneung Curling Centre. This was the seventh time that curling is on the Olympic program. In each of the men's and women's competitions, ten nations competed. As decided in 2015, a third competition, mixed doubles curling, has graduated from a spectator sport to a full medal competition. Teams consisted of one woman and one man. There were eight participating countries in the mixed competition.

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Summary

Final summary

Nations Men Women Mixed doubles Athletes
Flag of Canada.svg  Canada XXX12
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China XX7
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark XX10
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland X2
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain XX10
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy X5
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan XX10
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway XX7
Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia XX7
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea XXX12
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden XX10
Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland XXX12
Flag of the United States.svg  United States XXX12
Total: 13 NOCs10108116

Men

Means of qualificationBerthsQualified
Host nation1Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Qualification points via World Championships 7Flag of Canada.svg  Canada
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Olympic Qualification Event 2Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Total10

Women

Means of qualificationBerthsQualified
Host nation1Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Qualification points via World Championships 7Flag of Canada.svg  Canada
Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia
Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Olympic Qualification Event 2Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Total10

Mixed doubles

Means of qualificationBerthsQualified
Host nation1Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Qualification points via World Championships 7Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Flag of Canada.svg  Canada
Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
Total8

Qualification timeline

EventDateVenue
2016 Ford World Women's Curling Championship 19–27 March Swift Current, Canada
2016 World Men's Curling Championship 2–10 April Basel, Switzerland
2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 16–23 April Karlstad, Sweden
2017 World Women's Curling Championship 18–26 March Beijing, China
2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship 1–9 April Edmonton, Canada
2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 22–29 April Lethbridge, Canada
2017 Final qualification event 5–10 December Plzeň, Czech Republic

Qualification system

Qualification to the curling tournaments at the Winter Olympics was determined through two methods. Nations qualified teams by earning qualification points from performances at the 2016 and 2017 World Curling Championships. Teams also qualified through an Olympic qualification event which was held in December 2017. Seven nations qualified teams via World Championship qualification points, while two nations qualified through the qualification event (nations who competed at the 2014 and/or 2015 Worlds and did not score points were also eligible to compete at this tournament). As host nation, South Korea qualified teams automatically, thus making a total of ten teams per gender in the curling tournaments. For the mixed doubles competition, the top seven ranked teams earning qualification points from performances at the 2016 and 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship qualified along with hosts South Korea. [1]

World Curling Championships world championship

The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and mixed doubles championships, as well as junior and senior championships for each gender. There is also a world championship for wheelchair curling. The men's championship started in 1959, while the women's started in 1979. The mixed doubles championship was started in 2008. Since 2005, the men's and women's championships have been held in different venues, with Canada hosting one of the two championships every year: the men's championship in odd years, and the women's championship in even years. Canada has dominated both the men's and women's championships since their inception, although Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Scotland, the United States, Norway and China have all won at least one championship.

The World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments featuring the world's best teams of mixed doubles curlers.

Qualification points

The qualification points are allotted based on the nations' final rankings at the World Championships. The points are distributed as follows:

Final rank123456789101112
Points141210987654321

Note: Scotland, England and Wales all compete separately in international curling. By an agreement between the curling federations of those three home nations, only Scotland can score Olympic qualification points on behalf of Great Britain. [1]

Standings

Key
Nations that have qualified for the Olympic Games via points
Nations that have qualified for the Olympic Games via Olympic qualification event

Men

PositionCountry 2016 2017 Total
1Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 141428
2Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 71219
3Flag of the United States.svg  United States 10919
4Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 9615
5Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 41014
6Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 6713
7Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 8513
8Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 12012
9Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 088
10Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 505
11Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 044
12Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 134
13Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia 314
14Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 022
15Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea (host)202
16Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 000
  • Nations listed with 0 points were competitors at the 2014 or 2015 world championships, and were eligible for the final qualification event. [2]

Women

PositionCountry 2016 2017 Total
1Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 91423
2Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia 101222
3Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 14519
4Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 81018
5Flag of the United States.svg  United States 7815
6Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 4913
7Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea (host)6713
8Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 12012
9Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 347
10Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 066
11Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 516
12Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 134
13Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 022
14Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 202
15Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 000
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 000
  • Nations listed with 0 points were competitors at the 2014 or 2015 world championships, and were eligible for the final qualification event. [2]

Mixed doubles

PositionCountry 2016 2017 Total
1Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 121022
2Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 81220
3Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia 14418
4Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 01414
5Flag of the United States.svg  United States 10313
6Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 4812
7Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 6612
8Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 9211
9Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 099
10Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea (host)077
11Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 707
12Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 055
13Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 303
14Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 202
15Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 011
16Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 101
  • England earned 5 points in 2016 but only Scotland can score Olympic qualification points on behalf of Great Britain. [1]

Qualification event

At the Olympic qualifying event, which was held 5–10 December 2017 in Plzeň, Czech Republic, [3] the top two teams in the event qualified their nations to participate in the Olympics. The qualification event was open to any nations that earned qualification points at the 2016 or 2017 World Curling Championships (as listed above) or participated at the 2014 or 2015 World Curling Championships (the Czech men's team, the Norway and the Latvia women's team).

National qualifying events

Some countries select their teams through trial qualification tournaments.

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