The Gangneung Curling Centre is to hold the 2024 World Wheelchair Curling Championship and World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship ©Getty Images

The Gangneung Curling Centre, a competition venue for the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games, is set to hold wheelchair curling’s biggest events in the months after.

The venue in Gangneung has been awarded the rights for the World Wheelchair Curling Championship and World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

March 2 to 9 is the window allocated for the former and March 10 to 16 the dates for the latter.

Gangwon 2024 is due to be held between January 19 and February 1 - fewer than two months before the marquee wheelchair curling events come to the Gangneung Curling Centre.

The Gangneung Curling Centre was a venue for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics and is due to host the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship next year.

"We are thrilled to take our two major wheelchair championships in the 2023–2024 season to Gangnueng in Korea," World Curling Federation head of competitions Eeva Roethlisberger said.

The world's best wheelchair curlers are to return to the Gangneung Curling Centre in 2024 ©Getty Images
The world's best wheelchair curlers are to return to the Gangneung Curling Centre in 2024 ©Getty Images

"We have held a number of events in Gangneung in recent years and each championship has been hugely successful.

"We are returning to a venue and city we know very well and we are certain that the organisers will once again provide a fantastic platform for our wheelchair athletes."

Richmond in Canada is due to host the 2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championship and World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

Lohja in Finland was the destination for this year’s maiden World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship - there was no World Wheelchair Curling Championship in this a Paralympic year.