7 April 2025
World Junior Curling Championships 2025 to begin in Cortina, Italy
Teams from across the world will join in Cortina, Italy for the World Junior Curling Championships 2025, from 12 – 21 April.
This will be the 50th edition of the championship on the men’s side and the 37th edition for the women. Ten men’s and ten women’s teams representing their national Member Associations will compete, having qualified through performance at last year’s championships in Lohja, Finland in February, or at the World Junior-B Curling Championships 2024, which were also held in Lohja last December.
This event doubles up as a key test of facilities and arrangements for the curling events at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
Women’s competition
The ten teams taking part are: Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland (of these, China, Korea and Latvia qualified from the Junior-B event).
In the women’s event, last year’s gold medallists Switzerland return in hopes of retaining their world title, along with silver medallists Japan and bronze medallists Norway.
Men’s competition
The ten teams taking part are: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, United States (of these, Japan, Korea and Switzerland qualified from the Junior-B event).
In the men’s event, last year’s gold medallists Norway return to defend their title, while last year’s silver medallists Italy and bronze medallists Denmark also return for another year.
Format
In both the women’s and men’s events, the ten teams will play each other in a round-robin format, starting on Saturday 12th April and concluding on Saturday 19th April. After this, the top four teams will go on to semi-finals on Sunday 20th April, and medal games will conclude the event on Monday 21st April.
How to Watch
Static coverage of all games will be available to watch live on the Curling Channel. Find out more information about what Curling Channel passes are available and how to purchase here.
The following games will be featured:
Thursday 17 April
09:00 – Italy v Norway (men)
14:00 – Switzerland v Sweden (women)
Friday 18 April
14:00 – Switzerland v Germany (men)
18:30 – Japan v Italy (women)
Saturday 19 April
14:00 – Canada v Norway (women)
18:30 – Canada v Japan (men)
Sunday 20 April
11:00 – Semi-final (women)
15:30 – Semi-final (men)
Monday 21 April
10:00 – Gold medal game (women)
15:00 – Gold medal game (men)
Follow the live scores and results here.
The full playing schedule can be found here.
All times are Central European Summer Time, which is UTC+2
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