Peterman and Gallant officially named Canada's mixed doubles curling pair for Milano Cortina 2026
They are the first athletes named to Team Canada ahead of next year's Olympics.
Curling Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee officially named Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant their mixed doubles pair for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Monday — the first athletes named to Team Canada for next year’s Games.
Peterman and Gallant were provisionally nominated to Team Canada in January when they went undefeated to win the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials. They were confirmed to be heading to Italy after securing Canada’s Olympic qualification with a sixth-place finish at last week’s World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
It is the third consecutive Winter Olympics in which Canada has qualified a team in mixed doubles curling since the two-player discipline debuted at Pyeongchang 2018. Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris won gold in the sport’s Olympic debut that year, and Morris finished fifth alongside Rachel Homan at the Beijing 2022 Games.
Peterman and Gallant, who have been married since 2022, debuted as a mixed doubles team in 2016. They won the national mixed doubles championship that year, won again in 2019, and finished second and third in 2023 and 2024, respectively. They also finished second at the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, fifth in 2022, and sixth this year.
It is the second Olympic appearance for both of them, after they competed at Beijing 2022 in the four-person variant of the sport. Gallant and the Canadian men won the bronze medal in their event, while Peterman and the Canadian women finished one spot shy of the playoffs in theirs.
“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 in a press release. “We’re excited about the road in front of us, and we will be doing everything we can to prepare ourselves for the Olympics.”
“Since Jocelyn and I started playing mixed doubles, it’s been our dream to represent Canada at the Winter Olympics as teammates, and we’re going to embrace this opportunity,” added Gallant. “We appreciate that Curling Canada adjusted its qualifying process for mixed doubles in order to provide more time to get ourselves ready for the Games, and we’ll be using that time to the best of our ability to be in peak form in Italy.”
Both are also incredibly accomplished in the four-person game. Gallant spent years with Brad Gushue’s Newfoundland rink before moving to Alberta with Brendan Bottcher and now Brad Jacobs, while Peterman skipped her own team in Alberta for years before joining up with Chelsea Carey, then switching to Manitoba in 2018 with Jennifer Jones and now Lawes.
Gallant, in addition to his Olympic bronze medal, has a men’s world championship gold medal from 2017 to go along with two silvers and a bronze, as well as five Brier titles, winning his most recent one in March with Brad Jacobs and Alberta before they finished third at worlds. Peterman has a gold and two bronze medals at the Scotties during her career, and finished fourth in her lone appearance at the women’s world championships in 2016.
Mixed doubles curling will take place from February 4 to 10 at Stadio Olimpico del Ghiaccio in Cortina d’Ampezzo, which hosted events at the Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956 Olympic Winter Games as well.
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Canada has also punched their ticket to Cortina d’Ampezzo in both the women’s and men’s events based on its combined ranking at the 2024 and 2025 World Championships for each gender. The teams who wear the maple leaf in those events will be determined at the 2025 Canadian Curling Trials, which will take place in Halifax in November.
Peterman and Gallant could represent Canada in both the mixed doubles and team events, with no restrictions on athletes competing in multiple curling disciplines.
“It’s a proud moment to welcome Jocelyn & Brett as the first athletes who have been named to the Canadian Olympic Team for Milano Cortina 2026,” said Jennifer Heil, Team Canada’s Milano Cortina 2026 Chef de Mission, in a press release. “With total trust in each other, they’ve shown what it means to stay ice cold under pressure and seize every opportunity.
“Milano Cortina is their house now, and we can’t wait to cheer them on and show the world what Canadians are made of.”
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