The line-up of teams for the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games curling competition has been confirmed ©Getty Images

The teams for the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games curling competitions have been confirmed.

Curling competition at Gangwon 2024 is set to feature mixed team and mixed doubles championship events, with teams qualifying through points earned at World Championships, through a regional quota place or as the National Olympic Committee with the most points outside those criteria.

The mixed team championship features 16 teams, with South Korea qualifying as hosts.

Half of the contingent for the Championship is European teams - Denmark, Germany, Britain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.

There is one representative from the African region in Nigeria, and one for the Oceania region in the form of New Zealand.

Asia has two representatives in China and Japan, with the Americas having three representatives in Brazil, Canada and the United States.

Meanwhile the mixed doubles championship has a line-up of 24 teams, with South Korea again qualifying as hosts.

The Gangneung Curling Centre hosted curling competition during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics ©Getty Images
The Gangneung Curling Centre hosted curling competition during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics ©Getty Images

The European teams are the same eight as the mixed team event, plus Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

The representatives for the Africa, Americas and Oceania regions are the same as the mixed team championship.

For Asia, Kazakhstan join China and Japan in the line-up, while Qatar have also qualified as a representative of the West Asia region.

Curling competition at the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympics is due to be held at the Gangneung Curling Centre between January 21 and February 2 2024.

The Gangneung Curling Centre served as the venue for curling competition at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

During the curling competitions at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympics Norway claimed the mixed team title courtesy of their quartet of Lukas Hostmaelingen, Grunde Buraas, Nora Ostgard and Ingeborg Forbregd.

In the mixed doubles discipline the title went to the mixed National Olympic Committee (NOC) pairing of Laura Nagy of Hungary and Nathan Young from Canada, although mixed NOC events have been scrapped completely from Gangwon 2024.