9 March 2026
BKT World Women’s Curling Championship 2026 to start in Calgary
World Curling competitive action now turns to Canada as the BKT World Women’s Curling Championship 2026 gets underway on 14 March at the WinSport Event Centre in Calgary, the largest city in Alberta.
WinSport is familiar territory for curling events — it was the venue for both the women’s and men’s championships in 2021 under controlled circumstances as the world recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, it also hosted the Pan Continental Curling Championships in 2022.
This is the 47th edition of the women’s world championship, and will be staged from 14–22 March.
Teams
13 teams will participate and have qualified their Member Associations through one of three routes — as hosts, or through performances at the U.S. Steel Pan Continental Curling Championships 2025 or the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships 2025.
Qualified as hosts: Canada
Qualified from the Pan Continental Curling Championships (in qualification order): China, United States, Korea, Japan, Australia
Qualified from the European Curling Championships (in qualification order): Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Turkiye, Italy.
Australia: skipped by Helen Williams, this is a first-ever world championship appearance by an Australian women’s team
Canada: skipped by Kerri Einarson, this is a first appearance for this team since 2023, when they took bronze medals
China: skipped by Wang Rui, who is making a seventh worlds appearance, including a bronze medal performance last year
Denmark: skipped by the highly experienced Madeleine Dupont, who is making a 17th appearance, having won silver in 2007
Italy: skipped by Stefania Constantini — the 2022 Olympic mixed doubles gold medallist and 2026 bronze medallist
Japan: skipped by Fujisawa Satsuki, who is making her fourth appearance, this team won silver in 2016, and Olympic silver in 2022
Korea: skipped by Gin Eunji, who is making a seventh appearance, including bronze in 2024. This team finished fifth at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games
Norway: skipped by Torild Bjoernstad, a former world junior bronze medallist, this is the first appearance by this team
Scotland: skipped by former world junior champion Fay Henderson, and including 2022 Olympic gold medallist Hailey Duff, this is the first appearance by this team
Sweden: skipped by current Olympic mixed doubles champion Isabella Wranaa, this is the first appearance by this team
Switzerland: skipped by 2024 World Junior champion Xenia Schwaller, this is a first appearance by this team
Turkiye: skipped by Dilsat Yildiz, who is a making a fifth appearance, this team is hoping to improve on last year’s 11th place finish
United States: skipped by Delaney Strouse, a former world junior bronze medallist, this is the first appearance by this team.
Playing FORMAT
The first of 20 round-robin sessions will begin at 14.00 on Saturday 14March, with the final round-robin session starting at 19.00 on Friday 20 March.
After this, the top two ranked teams will progress to the semi-finals, while the next four teams will play qualification games. The two winners of these qualification games will move to the semi-finals.
The two qualification games will take place at 10.00 on Saturday 21 March, with the semi-finals staged at 16.00.
The Bronze Medal game will take place at 09.00 on Sunday 22 March, and the Gold Medal final will follow at 15.00.
Find the full playing schedule here.
HOW TO WATCH
All games will be available to watch live on the Curling Channel, with select feature games. Please note, there may be restrictions due to broadcast partner agreements.
Find all information about the available Curling Channel passes and how to purchase here.
Follow live scores and results here.
All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) which is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) -6.
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