The men’s discipline features 10 teams, with each squad consisting of five athletes.
Olympic berths were allocated through qualification, with the host nation Italy receiving an automatic place in the competition.
The format of the competition starts out with a round-robin, where all teams will play each other once.
The top four teams after the round-robin stage will then advance to the semi-finals, where the winner will meet the fourth-placed team, and the runner-up will take on the third-placed team.
The successful teams in those games will be seeded into the gold medal game, while the losers will fight it out for third, and the bronze medal.
The 10 Men’s teams are:
GREAT BRITAIN: Team Mouat were silver medallists in Beijing and are widely regarded as the best team in world curling after winning the World Championships in both 2023 and 2025. Great Britain head into the men’s tournament as the clear betting favourites.
CANADA: The Canadians are the most decorated nation in Olympic Curling with three gold medals. Brad Jacobs, the Olympic champion from Sochi, has returned to the squad. The team have already out down a marker of intent by winning the 2025 Pan Continental Curling Championship.
SWITZERLAND: Ranked second in the world, the Swiss are considered one of the most consistent teams in the world. Team Schwaller pushed Great Britain all the way at the 2025 World Championships and will be medal contenders.
SWEDEN: Niklas Edin (Team Edin) makes his fifth consecutive Olympic appearance, having claimed a medal of every colour in the men’s tournament. He took bronze in Sochi, silver in Pyeongchang and gold in Beijing.
GERMANY: Team Muskatewitz qualified for Milan-Cortina 2026 through their points earned at the 2024 and 2025 World Men’s Curling Championships. They sit sixth in the official Olympic rankings.
CHINA: China’s Xu Xiaoming will be appearing at his third Olympic Games, having been a member of the Chinese team that finished fourth in 2014.
NORWAY: Team Ramsfjell are seventh on the Olympic rankings list. They were also the 2024 European Bronze medallists.
ITALY: Team Retornaz secured their spot at Milan-Cortina 2026 as the hosts. Their curling honours include being 2022 and 2024 World Bronze medallists and 3 x European Bronze medallists (2018, 2021, 2022).
USA: Led by skip Danny Casper, the Olympic neophytes will face their toughest test to date at these Games, however they have the ability to cause an upset or two.
CZECHIA: After recording their best-ever world championship result, Lukas Klima and his team make history as the first Czech men’s team to qualify for the Olympic Winter Games.
Men’s Curling Outright Winner Odds:
- Great Britain - 11/10
- Canada - 13/8
- Switzerland - 9/2
- Sweden - 14/1
- Germany - 25/1
- China - 25/1
- Norway - 28/1
- Italy - 33/1
- USA - 100/1
- Czechia - 200/1
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