Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ...
was included in the program of the inaugural
Winter Olympic Games
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in
1924 in
Chamonix although the results of that competition were not considered official by the
International Olympic Committee
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until 2006. Curling was a
demonstration sport
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Demonstration sport ...
at the
1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence in
1988 and
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
. The sport was finally added to the official program for the
1998 Games in Nagano.
Until 2018, only men's and women's events were contested. An additional event,
mixed doubles, was rejected for
2010
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because the Olympic Programme Commission felt it had not developed enough, but was approved for the
2018 Winter Olympics
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at an IOC Executive Board meeting in June 2015.
Since the 1998 Olympics, Canada has generally dominated the sport with their men's teams winning gold in 2006, 2010, and 2014, and silver in 1998 and 2002, and a bronze in 2022. The women's team won gold in 1998 and 2014, a silver in 2010, and a bronze in 2002 and 2006. Their mixed doubles team won gold in 2018.
The related
ice stock sport (''Eisstockschießen'' in German) was a demonstration event in
1936
Events January–February
* January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House.
* January 28 – Death and state funer ...
and
1964. These events are not considered additional demonstrations of curling.
Summary
Events
• = ''official event'', (d) = ''
demonstration event''
Participating nations
The final placement for each team in each tournament is shown in the following tables.
;Men's tournament
Note: The three medal winners in
1924 were the only teams entered that year.
;Women's tournament
;Mixed doubles tournament
Medal table
Sources (after the
2022 Winter Olympics
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):
''Accurate as of
2022 Winter Olympics
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.''
Medal summary
Men
Women
Mixed doubles
See also
*
List of Olympic venues in curling
*
Wheelchair curling at the Winter Paralympics
Wheelchair curling tournaments have been staged at the Paralympic Games since the Winter Paralympic Games in 2006 in Turin.
The tournaments are staged for mixed gender teams.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinc ...
*
Ice stock sport at the Winter Olympics, a similar sport
*
Curling at the Youth Olympic Games
References
External links
Olympic information at the World Curling Federation's site
{{Sports at the Olympics
Sports at the Winter Olympics
Olympics
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