23 January 2026

Milano Cortina 2026: Team Sweden

In the lead up to the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, we will be featuring one National Olympic Committee (NOC) a day who will compete. Next up is Team Sweden.

Sweden will be represented by three team at the Games: Team Hasselborg (women), Team Edin (men’s) and Team Wranaa/Wranaa (mixed doubles).

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Niklas Edin achieved a lifelong dream at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games when Sweden defeated Bruce Mouat’s Great Britain to claim gold.

After finishing fourth, third and second from 2010 to 2018, Edin finally reached the summit, cementing both himself and his rink firmly in the ‘Greatest of All Time’ conversation. The question now stands: where did he go from here?

In the months following the Beijing Games, there were whispers over whether Team Edin would continue, having achieved everything in the sport — particularly after Scottish great Eve Muirhead, who led Great Britain to gold in the women’s event, hung up her broom after their victory.

A new Olympic cycle, new questions

Edin, however, kept going and made it through Swedish qualification to reach Milano Cortina 2026. While he no longer appeared as the dominant skip that he was at the end of the last cycle, he would go onto win his fourth consecutive world title shortly after Beijing and would add another in 2024.

The road has not been smooth. Sweden were heavily defeated games by Canada in the qualification games at the 2023 World Men’s Championship and were knocked out at the same stage in 2025 by Team Mouat — arguably the strongest rink on paper heading into 2026.

Never write off Team Edin

If there was a reminder that Edin always remains a threat, it came at the 2025 Le Gruyère AOP Europeans. After finishing fourth in the round-robin, they defeated Team Mouat 8-5 in the semi-finals, before beating Yannick Schwaller’s Switzerland 5-4 in an extra end to claim gold.

Speculation about Edin’s impending retirement will always exist, however, Edin always surprises. Instead, enjoy it while it lasts — you never know when one of the greatest curlers in history may call it a day.

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Meet the teams

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Olympic excellence year after year for Team Hasselborg

On the women’s side, Sweden’s Olympic record is just as formidable, only missing out on the podium once in 2002. In recent years, that is thanks to the work of skip Anna Hasselborg.

At the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Team Hasselborg rebounded from a narrow round-robin loss to defeat the home favourites Korea, skipped by Kim Eun-jung. It was Sweden’s third Olympic gold medal in the last four Games.

Bronze resolve after Beijing heartbreak

A bronze followed at Beijing 2022, though that result did not tell the whole story. Team Hasselborg was on the losing end of one of the greatest Olympic curling matches, an extra end 12-11 defeat to the eventual Olympic champions, Great Britain. Hasselborg’s rink recovered to defeat Silvana Tirinzoni’s Switzerland in the bronze medal game.

Now 36 — the same age as Edin was in Beijing — Hasselborg has given no indication that this is the end of the line. Despite her Olympic success, she is yet to win a world title, collecting only two world silver medals.

But again, it does not tell the whole story. The last two World Championships were the first where Sweden failed to qualify for the semi-finals, but they still made the qualification games. They have also finished fourth, four times, highlighting just how fine to margins have been.

European form at the right time

The 2025 European Curling Championships showed form at the right time, where they finished top in the round-robin, before winning the gold medal against Scotland, her third continental title.

The Wranaas and mixed doubles promise

Siblings Isabella and Rasmus Wrana will carry Sweden’s hopes in mixed doubles after winning the 2024 World Championship title.

Competing on home ice, they went 8-1 in the round-robin to top their group before defeating Estonia’s Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill in the final — becoming the first sibling world champions in mixed doubles.

They had previously hoped to make the podium in 2022, when they debuted, but were eliminated in the qualification games.

It’s important to remember Sweden have reached the Olympic curing podium at every Games except 2022. With three strong contenders across the three events, we may see the Swedish flag fly again.

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Team Sweden stats

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