The international curling spotlight turns to Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada on Saturday 16 March, when the BKT Tires World Women’s Curling Championship 2024 gets underway.
The event will be staged in Centre 200, an arena which can hold 5,000 fans and is located in downtown Sydney on the island of Cape Breton.
While Canada is no stranger to hosting World Curling championships, this is a first world women’s championship to take place in Nova Scotia.
This will be the 45th world women’s championship, with the first held in Perth, Scotland in 1979. Altogether 13 of the top women’s teams will be representing their national Member Associations.
With Canada gaining participation as hosts, the other teams qualified through two different routes for this championship – by way of their performances in the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships, held in November 2023 in Aberdeen, Scotland, and at the Pan Continental Championships, staged in Kelowna, Canada earlier in November 2023.
There will be 20 sessions of round-robin play, commencing on Saturday 16 March and concluding on Friday 22 March. This will determine the top six-ranked teams. The teams ranked top and second will proceed directly to the semi-finals. For teams ranked third to sixth, qualification games will take place on Saturday 23 March (3rd v 6th and 4thv 5th). Semi-finals will follow on 23 March at 17:00.
The bronze medal game will take place on Sunday 24 March at 11:00 to be followed by the gold medal final at 17:00.
All times are Atlantic Standard Time (AST) which is UTC/GMT -3.
All games will be available to watch on The Curling Channel.
Find the full playing schedule here.