Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Elana Meyers Taylor edged Laura Nolte by four-hundredths of a second in Monday's women's monobob, earning an elusive maiden Olympic gold medal.
Meyers Taylor, who won three silver medals and two bronze medals through her first four Olympics, also tied speed skater Bonnie Blair as the most decorated American female in Winter Olympics history.
Fellow American Kaillie Armbruster Humphries -- the 2022 monobob gold medalist -- clocked a total time of 3:58.05, 0.12 behind Meyers Taylor's 3:57.93, to earn a bronze medal. Nolte -- a gold medalist from the two-woman bobsleigh in 2022 -- finished in 3:57.97 to give Germany another silver medal.
At 41, Meyers Taylor also set a record as the oldest women's bobsled medalist.
ELANA MEYERS TAYLOR'S QUEST FOR GOLD IS COMPLETE! pic.twitter.com/0AN1LlmPfs— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 16, 2026
