Kaillie Humphries Armbruster of U.S. wins record-tying sixth Olympic bobsled medal

American Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, successful possibly her Olympic bobsled finale, recovered her mode to the medal basal for a record-tying sixth clip Saturday successful the two-woman bobsled, portion Germany's Laura Nolte won golden again. 

Nolte is present the back-to-back two-woman Olympic bobsled champion, holding disconnected teammate Lisa Buckwitz to drawback golden at the Milan Cortina Games connected Saturday night.

Nolte — the victor of the past 4 World Cup two-woman titles — cemented her presumption arsenic the sport's existent queen, teaming with Deborah Levi to triumph her 2nd consecutive two-woman golden medal by finishing 4 runs successful 3 minutes, 48.46 seconds.

Buckwitz, with Neele Schuten successful her sled, was 2nd successful 3:48.99. Humphries Armbruster and Jasmine Jones — 2 mothers successful the aforesaid sled for the U.S. — finished 3rd successful 3:49.21. It was the sixth Olympic medal for Humphries Armbruster, tying chap American Elana Meyers Taylor for the astir by immoderate pistillate successful the sport's history.

Bronze medalist Kaillie Armbruster Humphries of Team USA celebrates with her lad aft the medal ceremonial for the two-woman bobsled successful the Winter Olympics astatine Cortina Sliding Centre connected Feb. 21, 2026, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Ezra Shaw / Getty Images

Also for the U.S., Kaysha Love — who has been dealing with a hamstring contented for overmuch of the play and had it flare up again successful Italy — and Azaria Hill finished 5th successful 3:49.71. Meyers Taylor and Jadin O'Brien, who were doomed by a second-heat skid astatine the apical of the way Friday night, got a fewer spots backmost successful the standings Saturday and finished tied for seventh successful 3:50.49.

Germany present has six bobsled medals successful these Olympics, portion the U.S. has 3 and the remainder of the satellite has zero. The disagreement mightiness get bigger connected Sunday successful the last sliding lawsuit of the Milan Cortina Games; Germany, which already swept the two-man race, is successful presumption to bash the aforesaid happening successful four-man aft Saturday's opening 2 heats of that competition.

Germany's Laura Nolte, left, and propulsion jock Deborah Levi, observe their golden medals successful the two-woman bobsled successful the Winter Olympics connected Feb. 21, 2026, astatine the  Cortina Sliding Center successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.  Michael Kappeler/picture confederation via Getty Images

And Germany is present up to 17 sliding medals, counting bobsled, skeleton and luge, astatine Milan Cortina — 1 much than the remainder of the world. Austria has five, the U.S. present has 4 on with Italy, Britain has 2 and Latvia has one.

The two-woman contention was fundamentally for the bronze going into the last run.

Nolte — who had the lead, albeit a overmuch smaller one, going into the last vigor of the monobob contention that Meyers Taylor ended up winning — led Buckwitz by 0.35 seconds going into the past heat. Buckwitz's pb implicit Humphries Armbruster was 0.19 seconds, and Humphries Armbruster was lone 0.09 seconds up connected Germany's Kim Kalicki successful the contention for the bronze.

Kalicki's last time: 3:49.36. It wasn't capable to drawback Humphries Armbruster, who hopped retired of the sled and wrapped herself and Jones successful the American flag, knowing the medal was theirs.

Humphries Armbruster's updated Olympic medal count: 3 golds, 3 bronzes.

Meyers Taylor is 41, Humphries Armbruster is 40. Meyers Taylor is simply a parent of two, Humphries Armbruster has 1 son, and some women are talking astir however they would similar to adhd different babe to their families.

That means Saturday nighttime mightiness person been the past connected the Olympic signifier for them — and possibly connected immoderate sliding stage.

It was the 177th contention — counting World Cups, satellite championships, the short-lived monobob World Series and the Olympics — for Meyers Taylor astatine the large planetary level. She has 78 medals from those races, six of them coming successful the Olympics, and was a victor either arsenic a operator oregon pusher successful 3 antithetic decades.

And for Humphries Armbruster, who won 3 Olympic medals for Canada and present has 3 much for the U.S., the numbers are adjacent much gaudy: 105 medals successful 218 large planetary races, with 49 of them victories.

If this is the end, for either oregon for some of them, what a thrust it was.

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