The United States opened the final women’s two-woman bobsled race of the IBSF World Cup season with another podium performance, as Kaillie Humphries and Jasmine Jones finished 2nd in Altenberg, Germany.

Humphries and Jones delivered two consistently strong runs, sitting second through every split in both heats and posting a combined time of 1 minute 53.23 seconds. The result left them 0.90 seconds off the win and also secured Humphries 2nd place in the overall 2025-26 World Cup standings in the final race before the Milan Cortina Olympic Games.

Germany took the top step of the podium as Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi won both heats to take 1st in 1:52.33. Nolte and Levi set a new start record of 5.50 seconds and lowered the Altenberg track record to 55.96 seconds, capping a dominant weekend that also included the overall World Cup title in the discipline.

Another German sled joined them on the podium, with Kim Kalicki and Lauryn Siebert finishing 3rd in 1:53.39 after the second-fastest second heat of the competition.

Austria’s Katrin Beierl and Nicola Pichler placed 4th in 1:54.23, followed by Canada’s Cynthia Appiah and Skylar Sieben in 5th at 1:54.44, their best result of the Olympic season. Germany’s Lisa Buckwitz and Kira Lipperheide finished 6th in 1:54.65.

The United States placed a second sled inside the top seven, as Elana Meyers Taylor and Emily Renna finished 7th in 1:54.78, a solid two-run showing on a track where Meyers Taylor previously held the start record.

Switzerland’s Debora Annen and Salome Kora were 8th in 1:54.96, France’s Margot Boch and Luna Goureau took 9th in 1:55.03, and Canada’s Bianca Ribi and Dawn Richardson Wilson rounded out the top 10 in 1:55.08.

With the Altenberg finale complete, Nolte claimed the overall World Cup title in two-woman bobsled, while Humphries’ runner-up finish in the season standings underscored the Americans’ podium potential heading into the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

Results:

  1. Laura Nolte / Deborah Levi (GER) — 1:52.33
  2. Kaillie Armbruster Humphries / Jasmine Jones (USA) — 1:53.23
  3. Kim Kalicki / Lauryn Siebert (GER) — 1:53.39
  4. Katrin Beierl / Nicola Pichler (AUT) — 1:54.23
  5. Cynthia Appiah / Skylar Sieben (CAN) — 1:54.44
  6. Lisa Buckwitz / Kira Lipperheide (GER) — 1:54.65
  7. Elana Meyers Taylor / Emily Renna (USA) — 1:54.78
  8. Debora Annen / Salomé Kora (SUI) — 1:54.96
  9. Margot Boch / Luna Goureau (FRA) — 1:55.03
  10. Bianca Ribi / Dawn Richardson Wilson (CAN) — 1:55.08
  11. Viktoria Cernanska / Lucia Mokrasova (SVK) — 1:55.54
  12. Qing Ying / Yu Wang (CHN) — 1:55.70
  13. Georgeta Popescu / Teodora Andreea Vlad (ROU) — 1:56.10
  14. Kelly van Petegem / Dora de Haseleer (BEL) — 1:56.32
  15. Sarah Blizzard / Desi Johnson (AUS) — 1:56.55