TORONTO—As first reported by The Curling News, Curling Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee made it official today: Jocelyn Peterman (Red Deer, Alta.) and Brett Gallant (Charlottetown, P.E.I) are the first athletes nominated to Team Canada for the upcoming Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
The pair reside in Chestermere, Alta. with their young son Luke.
Six-time Canadian women’s champion Laine Peters has coached the pair since 2023, and was a teammate of Peterman from 2014 through 2018.
L to R: Peters, Peterman and Gallant • Jared Ostroff-The Curling News
Canada’s mixed doubles curlers provisionally earned their nomination to the Canadian Olympic Team by winning the Olympic Trials on Jan. 4. They then competed at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Championship in Fredericton, where their sixth-place performance secured Canada’s Olympic spot in the discipline.
In addition to host nation Italy, seven countries qualified for the Olympic mixed doubles tournament based on the Mixed Doubles Olympic Qualification Points ranking, which was determined by combined placements at the 2024 and 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships.
This will mark the third consecutive Olympic Winter Games in which Canada has qualified a team in mixed doubles curling since the discipline debuted at PyeongChang 2018.
Curling invasion at COC HQ • Jared Ostroff-The Curling News
“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,” said Peterman.
“We’re excited about the road in front of us, and we will be doing everything we can to prepare ourselves for the Olympics.”
The married couple both competed at Beijing 2022 with their respective four-person teams; Gallant won the bronze medal in the men’s event with Team Gushue while Peterman and Team Jones finished one spot shy of the playoffs with a 5–4 record in the women’s team event.
Milano Cortina 2026 will mark their first Olympic appearance as mixed doubles partners.
Mixed doubles curling will take place from Feb. 4 to 10 in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Seventy years after the 1956 Olympic Winter Games, Milano Cortina 2026 will be spread across eight clusters, with Cortina hosting five sports—making it the venue with the most competitions of different sports during the Games.
