U.S. bobsledder Kaillie Humphries wins sixth Olympic medal, 2-woman bronze with Jasmine Jones

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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Kaillie Humphries and Jasmine Jones won bronze in the 2-woman bobsled competition Saturday, giving Humphries, the 40-year-old pilot, her second medal of these Games and preventing a German sweep.

Laura Nolte, who led the monobob competition going into the second, third and fourth runs before making a mistake that cost her the gold, finally got her first-place podium finish. It is her second consecutive gold medal in the 2-woman event. She and her brakewoman, Deborah Levi won Saturday in 3 minutes, 48.46 seconds, while teammates Lisa Buckwitz and Neele Schuten took silver in 3:48.99. Humphries and Jones were third at 3:49.21.

Humphries, who has more Olympic gold medals than any other female bobsledder in history, won bronze in monobob earlier this week, her fifth Olympic medal. Saturday was her sixth.

Humphries rallied after a rough second run early Friday. Her first run was beautiful — not perfect, she said, but solid — and a track record 56.92 seconds put her in the lead, with a .05 edge, going into the second heat. But after Humphries and Jones, appearing in her first Olympics, hopped in the sled for their second run, they banged around the track a bit, slowing down the sled. Humphries crossed the line third, suddenly 0.23 seconds behind Nolte.

Nolte hung on to win gold just days after losing the monobob title after a bad fourth run.

Humphries is competing in her fifth Olympics, though this is the first Games in which she’s won multiple medals, a remarkable feat for the 40-year-old mother of one.

Humphries now has six Olympic medals, matching teammate Elana Meyers Taylor for the most in Olympic women’s bobsled history. (She won two medals, both golds, in 2-woman in 2010 and 2014, when she competed for Team Canada.)

Kaysha Love, competing in her second Olympics but first as a pilot, was fifth with a total time of 3:49.71 with teammate Azaria Hill.

Meyers Taylor, who won bronze in 2-woman four years ago in Beijing, finished in a tie for seventh at 3:50.49. She had a chaotic 2-woman event. In sixth place after the first run, she had a brutal second run, when her sled came out of the grooves and slammed into the wall shortly after the start, dropping her to 12th. She rebounded with her third run, climbing back to sixth. Her total time was the same as Debora Annen and Salome Kora of Switzerland.

But Saturday was Humphries’ night, and once again, she got to celebrate in the snow with Aulden, her 20-month-old son who arrived via IVF in June 2024. Humphries’ return to competition just five months after giving birth was lauded across her sport, and she’s become a passionate advocate for other current and aspiring athlete-moms, telling them having a child does not mean the end of their athletic career.

Saturday night, she proved that again.

This article originally appeared in The Athletic.

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