American Elana Meyers Taylor finally captures gold medal at Winter Olympics, makes Team USA history

Elana Meyers Taylor being an Olympic golden medalist is nary longer a dream. It’s a reality.

One of the apical American Winter Olympic athletes successful Team USA past yet achieved a golden medal connected Monday. It came successful the women’s monobob contention astatine the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, arsenic she was conscionable capable to bent connected to the apical spot successful the event.

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United States' golden medalist Elana Meyers Taylor, left, and United States' bronze medalist Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, right, observe astatine the decorativeness aft the women's monobob contention astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.  (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Meyers Taylor enactment unneurotic a clip of 59.51 to motorboat herself up of teammate Kailie Humphries for archetypal place. The 2 inactive needed to await Germany’s Laura Nolte. They held their enactment arsenic Nolte mislaid conscionable a fewer hundredths of a 2nd connected her tally and finished successful 2nd place.

Meyers Taylor had a full clip of 3:57.93. Nolte finished astatine 3:57.97. Humphries picked up a bronze medal with a clip of 3:58.05.

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United States' golden medalist Elana Meyers Taylor celebrates astatine the decorativeness aft the women's monobob contention astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

It’s the archetypal golden medal for Meyers Taylor. She tied Bonnie Blair arsenic the astir decorated pistillate Winter Olympian successful Team USA history. Both women person six full medals.

Meyers Taylor had been truthful adjacent to getting golden aggregate times. She won a metallic medal successful the monobob successful 2022 successful Beijing and had metallic medals successful the two-woman bobsled contention successful 2018 and 2014. Now, she tin telephone herself an Olympic golden medalist.

Humphries earned her 2nd Olympic medal. She won golden successful 2022 successful Beijing.

United States' Elana Meyers Taylor slides down the way during a women's monobob grooming league astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026.  (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

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Team USA hasn’t recovered itself connected the podium successful excessively galore wintertime events, but 2 much medals added to their full is thing they volition decidedly instrumentality heading into the mediate of the last week.

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