Olympic Curling 

1924 - Men’s curling was included in the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix. It was then dropped, and later re-introduced as a demonstration sport in 1932 in Lake Placid.

Curling was a demonstration sport in various Winter Olympic Games between 1936 to 1992, eventually  including Men’s and Women’s events.

 In 1998, Nagano, Japan,  Curling officially joined the Olympic programme, with both men’s and women’s competitions https://www.olympic.org/curling-equipment-and-history/

 AAA and Para Olympic Curling History http://worldcurling.org/about/history

Wheelchair curling was introduced during the 2000 World Handi Ski Championship in Crans Montana Switzerland. Switzerland and Sweden were the only countries competing. 

2001, the first International Wheelchair Curling Bonspiel took place in Sursee Switzerland. This proved to be a test event for the first World Wheelchair Curling Championship held in January 2002.

Other international events introduced in 2002 included World Senior Curling Championships for women and men.

 In March 2002 the International Paralympic Committee granted official medal status to wheelchair curling for mixed gender teams.

The organising committee of the Torino Paralympic Winter Games in 2006 agreed to include wheelchair curling in their programme.

In 2005, the European Youth Olympic Festival introduced a curling competition for junior women and men between 15 and 18 years of age. 

Curling became part of the inaugural Youth Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria in 2012.

Like many sports, Curling is a growing sport in Asia. Thus, the first World Women’s Curling Championship was held in Aomori, Japan, in 2007.

 The first World Men’s Curling Championship held in Asia was in Beijing, China, in 2014.

 In 2008, the first World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was staged in Vierumaaki, Finland. 

 In 2015, the mixed doubles discipline was accepted as an additional event for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang; eight teams competed for medals.

 In 2015, the International Paralympic Committee confirmed that the wheelchair curling event in PyeongChang in 2018 would be expanded from 10 to 12 teams.