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Curling was included in the program of the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in
1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
in Chamonix although the results of that competition were not considered official by the International Olympic Committee until 2006. Curling was a
demonstration sport A demonstration sport, or exhibition sport, is a sport which is played to promote it, rather than as part of standard medal competition. This occurs commonly during the Olympic Games, but may also occur at other sporting events. Demonstration spor ...
at the 1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence in
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and
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. The sport was finally added to the official program for the
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. Until 2018, only men's and women's events were contested. An additional event,
mixed doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known as ...
, was rejected for
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because the Olympic Programme Commission felt it had not developed enough, but was approved for the
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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
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and
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. 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
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were the only teams entered that year. ;Women's tournament ;Mixed doubles tournament


Medal table

Sources (after the
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Medal summary


Men


Women


Mixed doubles


See also

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List of Olympic venues in curling For the Winter Olympics, there are eleven venues that have been or will be used for curling. References {{Olympic venues Venues Curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which ...
* Wheelchair curling at the Winter Paralympics *
Ice stock sport at the Winter Olympics Ice stock sport, also known as Bavarian Curling, was featured in the Winter Olympic Games demonstration programme in 1936 and 1964. See also * Ice stock sport * 1936 Winter Olympics * 1964 Winter Olympics * Curling at the Winter Olympics Cur ...
, a similar sport *
Curling at the Youth Olympic Games Curling was inducted at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2012. A total of 16 mixed teams (consisting of two boys and two girls) contested the mixed team tournaments in 2012 and 2016, with this being expanded to 24 teams in 20 ...


References


External links


Olympic information at the World Curling Federation's site
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