CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Armbruster Humphries are Olympic medalists once again.
The queens of bobsled finished first and third in the women's monobob event Monday, Feb. 16 at the Cortina Sliding Center.
It was the first gold medal in Meyers Taylor's legendary career, and her sixth overall, tying Bonnie Blair for most medals by an American woman in Winter Olympics history. Meyers Taylor also became just the second Black woman to win an individual gold medal in a Winter Olympics. She won her first Olympic medal (a bronze) back in 2010 in Vancover.
Armbruster Humphries has now collected five medals from five Olympics, including the gold medal in monobob for Team USA at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. She also won gold medals in two-woman bobsled in Vancouver and the 2014 Sochi Games.
Laura Nolte of Germany earned the silver medal. Fellow Team USA bobsledder Kaysha Love finished seventh. Meyers Taylor posted a total time of 3:57.93 across four runs, edging Nolte (3:57.97) by 0.04 seconds; Armbruster Humphries (3:58.05) finished 0.12 back.
