A quest for a third straight gold medal by a Canadian team will get underway Saturday when the 2026 BKT World Women’s Curling Championship, presented by Pharmasave, gets underway at the WinSport Event Centre in Calgary,
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Kerri Einarson’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts championship team from Gimli, Man., will open its quest for a world championship with a pair of opening-day games.
Einarson, backed up by vice-skip Val Sweeting, second Shannon Birchard, lead Karlee Burgess, alternate Krysten Karwacki, team coach Reid Carruthers and national coach Viktor Kjell, will take on Sweden, skipped by Olympic mixed doubles gold-medallist Isabella Wranaa, Saturday at 2 p.m. (all times Mountain).
Later Saturday, Team Canada is on the ice against newly crowned U.S. champs Team Delaney Strouse, who will be making its World Women’s Championship debut.
Team Canada will close out its opening weekend Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. against China’s Team Rui Wang.
Team Einarson will be looking to follow up on the back-to-back gold medals claimed by Team Rachel Homan at the 2024 (Sydney, N.S.) and 2025 (Uijeongbu, South Korea) World Women’s Championships.
It will be the fourth time that Einarson has skipped Team Canada at the BKT World Women’s Curling Championship. Her teams won bronze in 2022 in Prince George, B.C., and in 2023 at Sandviken, Sweden. She was also supposed to skip Canada at the 2020 World Championship but that event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It will be the final year of the 13-team single round-robin format for World Women’s and Men’s Curling Championships. Beginning with the 2027 events, World Curling has announced the fields will be expanded to 18 teams competing in two pools of nine.
The 13-team field in Calgary is rounded out by Australia’s Team Helen Williams, Denmark’s Team Madeleine Dupont, Italy’s Team Stefania Constantini, Japan’s Team Satsuki Fujisawa (coached by Calgary’s J.D. Lind), Norway’s Team Torlid Bjoernstad, Scotland’s Team Fay Henderson, South Korea’s Team Eunji Gim, Switzerland’s Team Xenia Schwaller and Turkey’s Team Dilsat Yildiz.
Round-robin play will run through to Friday, March 20, with the top six teams making the playoffs; no tiebreakers will be played, so ties for playoff spots will be broken based on head-to-head results, and if that doesn’t resolve the tie, then the pre-game Last-Shot Draw distances will be used to break ties.
The top two teams from round-robin play will be seeded directly into the semifinals on March 21 at 4 p.m., while third will play sixth and fourth will play fifth in the qualifying-round games on March 21 at 10 a.m.
The winners of the qualifying-round games will advance to the semifinals. The semifinal winners will play for gold on March 22 at 3 p.m., with the semifinal losers battling for bronze on March 22 at 9 a.m.
All times are local (UTC-6)
Session 1 - 14:00
People's Republic of China vs Scotland
Sweden vs Canada
Norway vs Türkiye
Japan vs Switzerland
Session 2 - 19:00
Italy vs Republic of Korea
People's Republic of China vs Switzerland
Australia vs Denmark
United States vs Canada
Session 3 - 09:00
Denmark vs Sweden
Republic of Korea vs Japan
Scotland vs United States
Australia vs Norway
Session 4 - 14:00
Japan vs Norway
Türkiye vs Scotland
Canada vs People's Republic of China
Sweden vs Italy
Session 5 - 19:00
United States vs Türkiye
Italy vs Australia
Switzerland vs Republic of Korea
Denmark vs People's Republic of China
Session 6 - 09:00
Scotland vs Switzerland
Norway vs Sweden
United States vs Australia
Session 7 - 14:00
Norway vs Republic of Korea
Canada vs Denmark
People's Republic of China vs Italy
Türkiye vs Japan
Session 8 - 19:00
Australia vs Sweden
Switzerland vs Türkiye
Denmark vs Scotland
Republic of Korea vs United States
Session 9 - 09:00
Sweden vs Scotland
Japan vs Australia
Italy vs Canada
Session 10 - 14:00
Republic of Korea vs Türkiye
United States vs People's Republic of China
Italy vs Norway
Switzerland vs Denmark
Session 11 - 19:00
Canada vs Switzerland
Australia vs Republic of Korea
Sweden vs United States
Scotland vs Japan
Session 12 - 09:00
Denmark vs Norway
Japan vs Italy
Türkiye vs Canada
People's Republic of China vs Sweden
Session 13 - 14:00
United States vs Italy
Denmark vs Türkiye
Republic of Korea vs Scotland
Switzerland vs Australia
Session 14 - 19:00
Sweden vs Japan
Scotland vs Canada
Australia vs People's Republic of China
Norway vs United States
Session 15 - 09:00
Türkiye vs People's Republic of China
Switzerland vs Norway
Italy vs Denmark
Canada vs Republic of Korea
Session 16 - 14:00
Scotland vs Australia
Republic of Korea vs Sweden
United States vs Switzerland
Japan vs Denmark
Session 17 - 19:00
Norway vs Canada
People's Republic of China vs Japan
Türkiye vs Sweden
Italy vs Scotland
Session 18 - 09:00
Switzerland vs Italy
Denmark vs United States
People's Republic of China vs Republic of Korea
Australia vs Türkiye
Session 19 - 14:00
Japan vs United States
Canada vs Australia
Scotland vs Norway
Sweden vs Switzerland
Session 20 - 19:00
Republic of Korea vs Denmark
Türkiye vs Italy
Canada vs Japan
Norway vs People's Republic of China
Qualification Games - 10:00
TBC v TBC
TBC v TBC
Semi-finals - 16:00
TBC v TBC
TBC v TBC
Bronze medal game - 09:00
TBC v TBC
Gold medal game - 15:00
TBC v TBC
Ticket information, the list of teams, schedule information and live scoring can be found on the event website,
It’s the 20th time that Canada has hosted the World Women’s Championship since it began in 1979 in Perth, Scotland, and the second time it’s happened in Calgary.
Canada has won a leading 19 gold medals at the World Women’s since 1979, followed by Switzerland with 10 and Sweden with eight.
TSN/RDS2, the official broadcast partners of Curling Canada’s Season of Champions, will provide live coverage of Canada’s round-robin games, in addition to all playoff games. for their complete broadcast schedule.