The women’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 Women’s teams are:
CANADA: The return of Rachel Homan to the Canadian team has been a decisive factor in bookmakers making Canada betting favourites for the gold medal. The team are also 3 x World Champions (2017, 2024, 2025), plus 2014 World Silver medallists and 2013 World Bronze medallists.
SWITZERLAND: After years of global prominence and four straight world titles, Team Tirinzoni enter this Olympic Winter Games with their eyes firmly set on gold. As well as being 4 x World Champions, they are also 2 x European Champions.
SWEDEN: Sweden arrive in top form, having won the European Championship in November 2025, a result that lifted them to third in the world rankings. Anna Hasselborg was the Olympic champion in 2018 and bronze medallist at the 2022 Games.
SOUTH KOREA: A new national team nicknamed “5G” says it is ready to carry the momentum they gained in last Olympic Games forward. The new squad competes officially as "Team Gim," using the surname of their skipper - Gim Eun-ji.
JAPAN: Japan’s women have appeared in every single edition of the Winter Olympics thus far. They edged out Norway to reach their 8th straight Olympics and will be hopeful of a medal this year.
GREAT BRITAIN: Winners in 2022, GB Ladies are now without their taliswoman Eve Muirhead, so aren’t quite the force of old. Jennifer Dodds is the only returnee from that 2022 squad and alongside her in Cortina will be skip Sophie Jackson, fourth Rebecca Morrison and third Sophie Sinclair.
CHINA: Four years after Beijing 2022, Team Wang blends experience and youth into China’s 2026 Winter Olympic squad. The Chinese were 2025 World Bronze medallists and 2025 Pan Continental Champions.
ITALY: The hosts will be hoping they can go deep into the competition under Stefania Constantini – the current Mixed Doubles gold holder. The Italian women have been 2023 European Silver medallists and 2017 European Bronze medallists in the past.
DENMARK: Sitting sixth on the Olympic rankings, Team Dupont will be hoping they can draw upon their previous successes down the years, those being the 2022 European Champions and 2 x World Championship Medallists (Silver: 2007, Bronze: 2009).
USA: United States’ Tabitha Peterson grabbed the last available slot at the Olympic Games with a win over Norway. The American women’s win means that the US is represented in all three Olympic Curling disciplines for only the third time ever.
Women’s Curling Outright Winner Odds:
- Canada - 8/15
- Switzerland - 5/2
- Sweden - 7/1
- South Korea - 14/1
- Japan - 25/1
- Great Britain - 40/1
- China - 40/1
- Italy - 66/1
- Denmark - 80/1
- USA - 100/1
You can check out all out latest Women's Olympic Curling odds here.
