Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics

The curling competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held between 8 and 25 February 2018 at the Gangneung Curling Centre.^[1] 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. A third competition was added for the 2018 Olympics, mixed doubles, in which teams consist of one woman and one man. There were eight participating countries in the doubles competition.^[2]

Curling at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Curling pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue	Gangneung Gymnasium
Dates	8–25 February 2018
No. of events	3 (1 men, 1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	116 from 13 nations
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Men's curling at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
United States  Sweden  Switzerland

Women's curling at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
Sweden  South Korea  Japan

Mixed doubles's curling at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
Canada  Switzerland  Norway

Gangneung Curling Centre during the 2018 Winter Olympics

Inside view of Gangneung Curling Centre

Qualification

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Qualification to the curling tournaments at the Winter Olympics was determined through two methods. Nations could qualify teams by earning qualification points from performances at the 2016 and 2017 World Curling Championships. Teams could also qualify 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. 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.^[3]

Competition schedule

Curling competitions started the day before the Opening Ceremony and finish on the last day of the games, meaning the sport was the only one to have a competition every day of the games.^[4] The following was the competition schedule for the curling competitions:

RR

Round robin

SF

Semifinals

B

3rd place play-off

F

Final

Date Event	Thu 8	Fri 9	Sat 10	Sun 11	Mon 12	Tue 13		Wed 14	Thu 15	Fri 16	Sat 17	Sun 18	Mon 19	Tue 20	Wed 21	Thu 22	Fri 23	Sat 24	Sun 25
Men's tournament								RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	SF	B	F
Women's tournament								RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR		SF	B	F
Mixed doubles	RR	RR	RR	RR	SF	B	F

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	1	1	0	2
2	Canada	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
4	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
5	South Korea*	0	1	0	1
6	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		3	3	3	9

Medal events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	United States John Shuster Tyler George Matt Hamilton John Landsteiner Joe Polo	Sweden Niklas Edin Oskar Eriksson Rasmus Wranå Christoffer Sundgren Henrik Leek	Switzerland Benoît Schwarz Claudio Pätz Peter de Cruz Valentin Tanner Dominik Märki
Women details	Sweden Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs Jennie Wåhlin	South Korea Kim Eun-jung Kim Kyeong-ae Kim Seon-yeong Kim Yeong-mi Kim Cho-hi	Japan Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Mari Motohashi
Mixed doubles details	Canada Kaitlyn Lawes John Morris	Switzerland Jenny Perret Martin Rios	Norway1 Kristin Skaslien Magnus Nedregotten

Notes

1. ^ The Olympic Athletes from Russia team originally won the mixed doubles bronze medal, but were disqualified after Alexander Krushelnitskiy tested positive for meldonium.^[5]

Results summary

Men's tournament

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament

Round robin

Standings

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Sweden	Niklas Edin	9	7	2	62	43	34	28	13	8	87%	Playoffs
Canada	Kevin Koe	9	6	3	56	46	36	34	14	8	87%
United States	John Shuster	9	5	4	67	63	37	39	4	6	80%
Great Britain	Kyle Smith	9	5	4	55	60	40	37	8	7	82%	Tiebreaker
Switzerland	Peter de Cruz	9	5	4	60	55	39	37	10	6	83%
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	9	4	5	52	56	34	39	7	8	82%
South Korea	Kim Chang-min	9	4	5	65	63	39	39	8	8	82%
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	9	4	5	48	56	33	35	13	5	81%
Italy	Joël Retornaz	9	3	6	50	56	37	38	15	7	81%
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	9	2	7	53	70	36	39	12	5	83%

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Team											Record
Canada		8–3	6–4	5–3	8–4	7–4	7–6	2–5	6–8	7–9	6–3
Denmark	3–8		6–7	6–4	4–6	8–10	9–8	5–9	7–9	5–9	2–7
Great Britain	4–6	7–6		7–6	6–5	10–3	5–11	6–8	6–5	4–10	5–4
Italy	3–5	4–6	6–7		5–6	6–4	6–8	3–7	7–4	10–9	3–6
Japan	4–8	6–4	5–6	6–5		6–4	4-10	4–11	5–6	8–2	4–5
Norway	4–7	10–8	3–10	4–6	4–6		7–5	7–2	5–7	8–5	4–5
South Korea	6–7	8–9	11–5	8–6	10-4	5–7		2–7	8–7	7–11	4–5
Sweden	5–2	9–5	8–6	7–3	11–4	2–7	7–2		3–10	10–4	7–2
Switzerland	8–6	9–7	5–6	4–7	6–5	7–5	7–8	10–3		4–8	5–4
United States	9–7	9–5	10–4	9–10	2–8	5–8	11–7	4–10	8–4		5–4

Playoffs

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	1	Sweden	9
	4	Switzerland	3
						1	Sweden	7
						3	United States	10
	2	Canada	3
	3	United States	5			Bronze medal game
						2	Canada	5
						4	Switzerland	7

Women's tournament

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

Round robin

Standings

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
South Korea	Kim Eun-jung	9	8	1	75	44	41	34	5	15	79%	Playoffs
Sweden	Anna Hasselborg	9	7	2	64	48	42	34	14	13	83%
Great Britain	Eve Muirhead	9	6	3	61	56	39	38	12	6	79%
Japan	Satsuki Fujisawa	9	5	4	59	55	38	36	10	13	75%
China	Wang Bingyu	9	4	5	57	65	35	38	12	5	78%
Canada	Rachel Homan	9	4	5	68	59	40	36	10	12	81%
Switzerland	Silvana Tirinzoni	9	4	5	60	55	34	37	12	7	78%
United States	Nina Roth	9	4	5	56	65	38	39	7	6	78%
Olympic Athletes from Russia	Victoria Moiseeva	9	2	7	45	76	34	40	8	6	76%
Denmark	Madeleine Dupont	9	1	8	50	72	32	41	10	6	73%

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Team											Record
Canada		5–7	8–9	5–6	8–3	9–8	6–8	6–7	10–8	11–3	4–5
China	7–5		10–7	7–8	7–6	6–7	5–12	4–8	7–2	4–10	4–5
Denmark	9–8	7–10		6–7	5–8	7–8	3–9	3–9	4–6	6–7	1–8
Great Britain	6–5	8–7	7–6		8–6	10–3	4–7	6–8	8–7	4–7	6–3
Japan	3–8	6–7	8–5	6–8		10–5	7–5	5–4	4–8	10–5	5–4
Olympic Athletes from Russia	8–9	7–6	8–7	3–10	5–10		2–11	4–5	2–11	6–7	2–7
South Korea	8–6	12–5	9–3	7–4	5–7	11–2		7–6	7–5	9–6	8–1
Sweden	7–6	8–4	9–3	8–6	4–5	5–4	6–7		8–7	9–6	7–2
Switzerland	8–10	2–7	6–4	7–8	8–4	11–2	5–7	7–8		6–5	4–5
United States	3–11	10–4	7–6	7–4	5–10	7–6	6–9	6–9	5–6		4–5

Playoffs

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	1	South Korea	8
	4	Japan	7
						1	South Korea	3
						2	Sweden	8
	2	Sweden	10
	3	Great Britain	5			Bronze medal game
						3	Great Britain	3
						4	Japan	5

Mixed doubles

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Mixed doubles tournament

Round robin

Standings

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Athletes	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Canada	Kaitlyn Lawes / John Morris	7	6	1	52	26	28	20	0	9	80%	Playoffs
Switzerland	Jenny Perret / Martin Rios	7	5	2	45	40	29	26	0	10	71%
Olympic Athletes from Russia	Anastasia Bryzgalova / Alexander Krushelnitskiy	7	4	3	36	44	26	27	1	7	67%
Norway	Kristin Skaslien / Magnus Nedregotten	7	4	3	39	43	26	25	1	8	74%	Tiebreaker
China	Wang Rui / Ba Dexin	7	4	3	47	42	27	27	1	6	72%
South Korea	Jang Hye-ji / Lee Ki-jeong	7	2	5	40	40	23	29	1	7	67%
United States	Rebecca Hamilton / Matt Hamilton	7	2	5	37	43	26	25	0	9	74%
Finland	Oona Kauste / Tomi Rantamäki	7	1	6	35	53	23	29	0	6	67%

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Team									Record
Canada		10–4	8–2	6–9	8–2	7–3	7–2	6–4	6–1
China	4–10		10–5	9–3	5–6	8–7	5–7	6–4	4–3
Finland	2–8	5–10		6–7	5–7	4–9	6–7	7–5	1–6
Norway	9–6	3–9	7–6		3–4	8–3	6–5	3–10	4–3
Olympic Athletes from Russia	2–8	6–5	7–5	4–3		6–5	8–9	3–9	4–3
South Korea	3–7	7–8	9–4	3–8	5–6		4–6	9–1	2–5
Switzerland	2–7	7–5	7–6	5–6	9–8	6–4		9–4	5–2
United States	4–6	4–6	5–7	10–3	9–3	1–9	4–9		2–5

Playoffs

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	1	Canada	8
	4	Norway	4
						1	Canada	10
						2	Switzerland	3
	2	Switzerland	7
	3	Olympic Athletes from Russia	5			Bronze medal game
						3	Olympic Athletes from Russia (DSQ)	L
						4	Norway	W

Participating nations

A total of 113 athletes from 13 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses). Some curlers competed in both the 4-person and mixed doubles tournament, therefore the numbers included on this list are the total athletes sent by each NOC to the Olympics, not how many athletes they qualified.

•  Canada (12)
•  China (7)
•  Denmark (10)
•  Finland (2)
•  Great Britain (10)
•  Italy (5)
•  Japan (10)
•  Norway (7)
•  Olympic Athletes from Russia (7)
•  South Korea (12)
•  Sweden (10)
•  Switzerland (11)
•  United States (10)