Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification event

Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics Qualification event
Host city	Plzeň, Czech Republic
Arena	Winter Arena Košutka
Dates	December 5–10, 2017
Men's winner	Italy
Skip	Joël Retornaz
Third	Amos Mosaner
Second	Simone Gonin
Lead	Daniele Ferrazza
Finalist	Denmark (Rasmus Stjerne)
Women's winner	China
Skip	Wang Bingyu
Third	Zhou Yan
Second	Liu Jinli
Lead	Ma Jingyi
Finalist	Denmark (Madeleine Dupont)

The Olympic qualifying event was held from 5-10 December 2017 in Plzeň, Czech Republic. The qualification event was open to any nations that earned qualification points at the 2016 or 2017 World Curling Championships or participated at the 2014 or 2015 World Curling Championships (the Czech men's team, the Norway & the Latvia women's team). The top two teams from the qualification event qualified their nations to participate in the Olympics.

In both the men's and the women's tournaments, the teams played a single round robin, and at its conclusion, the top three teams advanced to the playoffs. In the playoffs, the first and second seeds played a game to determine the first team to advance to the main Olympic tournament. The loser of this game, along with the third seed, played a game to determine the second team to advance to the main Olympic tournament.

Skip: Liu Rui
Third: Xu Xiaoming
Second: Jiang Dongxu
Lead: Zang Jialiang
Alternate: Ma Yanlong

Skip: Jiří Snítil
Third: Lukáš Klíma
Second: Martin Snítil
Lead: Jindřich Kitzberger
Alternate: Samuel Mokriš

Skip: Rasmus Stjerne
Third: Johnny Frederiksen
Second: Mikkel Poulsen
Lead: Oliver Dupont
Alternate: Morten Berg Thomsen

Skip: Aku Kauste
Third: Kasper Hakunti
Second: Pauli Jäämies
Lead: Janne Pitko
Alternate: Kalle Kiiskinen

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