Brett Gallant sweeps a stone delivered by Jocelyn Peterman during playoff action on Friday. (Photo, Capital Winter Club/Rob Blanchard)

By Ian Gustafson

Bittersweet moment

Peterman, Gallant secure Olympic berth despite falling short at World Mixed Doubles Championship

May 3, 2025 | 1:19 PM

Red Deer’s Jocelyn Peterman and her husband, Brett Gallant are headed to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, Italy.

The duo, who now call Chestermere, Alta. home, clinched a berth into the Olympics despite a sixth place finish at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Fredericton, NB.

The pair experienced a pair of heartbreaking losses on Friday at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship including one in the quarterfinal to Estonia’s Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill. They dropped their second match against the United States in their final game for fifth place.

Peterman and Gallant’s goal heading into the tournament was to make sure they earned a spot in the Olympics but they were also hoping to walk away with the gold medal.

They’re disappointed with the result.

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“Accomplishing that Olympic berth, it was definitely a big goal for us,” said Peterman in a media release. “But at the end of the day, it was a world championship. We wanted to be on the podium. So it’s a little bittersweet right now.”

The husband-and-wife team will be nominated to the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), and the official announcement of Peterman and Gallant as the first members of the Canadian Olympic team will be made Monday in Toronto by the COC.

“Our first mission was to qualify for the Olympics; we accomplished that,” said Gallant. “I’m proud of us for getting that done. And we battled today; we tried our hardest right till the very end. The results didn’t come today, but there’s lots we can learn and that we can take to Italy next year.”

They finished the round robin portion of the tournament with a 7-2 record finishing second in their pool. This was their third time competing for a world championship. In 2019, they brought home the silver medal.

“I’m super happy that Brett and Jocelyn have fulfilled that mission and are going to be great reps for us in Cortina,” said national mixed doubles coach Scott Pfeifer. “There’s honestly 10 or 12 teams here that could have easily been one of those eight teams going to the Olympics. So we’re just happy we’re one of them. I know Jocelyn and Brett are going do everything they absolutely can to prepare for representing Canada in Cortina.”