Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario will represent Canada in women’s curling at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo. Canadian Olympic gold medalist Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario will represent Canada in men’s curling. On Saturday, Homan won the women’s tournament at the 2025 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, while Jacobs won the men’s tournament. Both Homan and Jacobs won the best of three finals two games to none. Homan clobbered Nova Scotian champions Christina Black 12-3 on Saturday, while Jacobs defeated Matt Dunstone of Winnipeg, Manitoba 6-5 on Saturday.
The 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo will be significant for Jacobs’s second Brett Gallant of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. That is because he will not just play in the men’s tournament, but mixed doubles as well. Gallant is teaming up with his wife, Jocelyn Peterman of Red Deer, Alberta.
The fact that Homan won the women’s tournament is zero surprise. What was a surprise is the fact she went through the tournament with a loss. Homan lost 8-7 to Calgary’s Kayla Skrlik on Sunday.
Jacobs’s first game at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games will be on February 11 against Germany at 11 am MT. Homan’s first game at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games will be on February 12 against Denmark at 1 am MT.
