World Curling championship action returns to Canada on Saturday 26 April when the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2025 gets underway at the Willie O’Ree Place in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
At the same time, and in the same venue, the World Senior Curling Championships 2025 will also be taking place.
Fredericton is located on the East Coast of Canada, nestled between the provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and the American state of Maine. This city of 115, 000 people last hosted these two World Curling championships in 2013.
Mixed Doubles
As well as being the most prestigious annual mixed doubles competition, this year’s world championship represents the last chance for direct qualification to the MilanoCortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
Points gathered from results in both last season’s world championship and this event will determine the seven available direct slots in the Olympic line-up (with hosts Italy automatically qualified). All other Member Associations participating in this championship have a further chance to qualify through the Olympic Qualification Event 2025 that will be staged in December, in Kelowna, Canada, when two further Olympic spaces will be on offer.
Find out more information about Olympic Qualification here.
The first World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was staged in 2008, in Vierumäki, Finland. This year’s will be the 17th edition (the 2020 event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic) and will feature 20 Mixed Doubles pairings, representing Member Associations who have qualified from the previous world championship or from the World Mixed Doubles Qualification Event 2024, which was held in Dumfries, Scotland in December 2024.
