Curlers Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant are the very first professional athletes called to Canada’s group for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics
The husband-and-wife group based in Chestermere, Alta., will certainly stand for Canada in blended increases curling at the Games, Curling Canada and the Canadian Olympic Team introducedMonday Gallant was birthed and elevated inCharlottetown
Peterman and Gallant provisionally made their election to the Olympic group by winning the Canadian blended increases tests in January.
They protected Canada’s area in the Olympic competition with a sixth-place coating recently at the globe blended increases crinkling champion in Fredericton.
“To be an Olympian once is amazing, but to have the opportunity to do it twice, and also to do it with my husband as a teammate, will be a true privilege, and we just can’t wait to be in Italy next year. We’re excited about the road in front of us, and we will be doing everything we can to prepare ourselves for the Olympics,” claimed Peterman.
Seven nations signed up with host Italy in the 10-team area based upon credentials factors from incorporated positionings at the 2024 and 2025 blended increases champions.
The last 2 areas will certainly be filled up complying with a December credentials occasion in Kelowna, B.C.
Mixed increases curling will certainly occurFeb 4-10 n Cortina d’Ampezzo
“Since Jocelyn and I started playing mixed doubles, it’s been our dream to represent Canada at the Winter Olympics as teammates, and we’re going to embrace this opportunity. We appreciate that Curling Canada adjusted its qualifying process for mixed doubles in order to provide more time to get ourselves ready for the Games, and we’ll be using that time to the best of our ability to be in peak form in Italy,” claimed Gallant.
Canada has actually likewise protected areas in the females’s and males’s Olympic crinkling occasions based upon its consolidated position at the 2024 and 2025 globe champions for each and every sex.
The four-person groups will certainly be figured out at the 2025 Canadian crinkling tests that will certainly occur in Halifax fromNov 22-30.
