Three U.S. sleds in medal competition after ladies’s monobob Runs 1-2

Women’s monobob was the primary of the bobsled competitions to start at Milan Cortina 2026, and halfway by way of there’s a multi-athlete battle for gold. 

Leading the pack after two runs is Germany’s Laura Nolte, who began first because the No. 1-ranked sled getting into the Games. Nolte took that first run as an invite to set a observe report, laying down a 59.44 that not one of the different 24 athletes may finest.

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Starting tenth on Run 1, Elana Meyers Taylor laid down a 59.49 to enter 2nd place, 0.05 seconds off the lead. The defending silver medalist is the lead U.S. sled after two runs and sits simply over two tenths of a second out of gold medal place.

Defending Olympic gold medalist Kaillie Humphries began fourth and was the primary athlete to problem Nolte when she set a time 0.34 seconds behind the German. On her second run, she improved by over a tenth of a second and sits in bronze medal place halfway by way of.

Meyers Taylor and Humphries are separated by simply 0.09 seconds within the remaining two medal positions.

Nobody may come near Nolte and Humphries on Run 1 till Kaysha Love and Meyers Taylor dug their sleds into the beginning grooves. 

Competing in her second Games however first within the monobob, Love had a monster first run to settle into third however clattered the wall on Run 2 and misplaced nearly a second. The 2025 monobob World Champion sits in fifth however will know what to appropriate to make the time again up on Monday.

Nolte, the three Americans and Switzerland’s Melanie Hasler have been the one 5 to set a sub-one-minute time on the opening run. Hasler is in 4th on the midway level.

Athletes appeared to battle for grip on their sleds early on, as world No. 2 Bree Walker of Australia and No. 5 Katrin Beierl of Austria every skidded and tagged the wall a number of instances throughout their first run. Walker sits in sixth and Beierl is down in thirteenth halfway by way of the competitors.