Women’s bobsled competition returns to Cortina Sliding Centre with the two-woman event, set to begin Friday, Feb. 20 at Noon ET. Run 2 will follow at 1:50 p.m. 

It will mark the seventh edition of the event since its debut at Salt Lake City 2002, which was won by Americans Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers. 

The U.S. hasn’t won gold in the event since, but it has medaled six times - four of those being Elana Meyers Taylor’s. 

Fresh off her dramatic gold medal in women’s monobob on Monday, Meyers Taylor will have a chance to add a seventh Olympic medal to her incredible career when she pilots the No. 6-seeded sled in the event. Her push athlete, Jadin O’Brien, is a former collegiate National Champion heptathlete who only just started bobsled in September 2025.

Meyers Taylor is the defending bronze medalist in the event and has never missed the Olympic podium. 

Monobob bronze medalist Kaillie Humphries missed out on the podium at Beijing 2022, but she is by far the most accomplished woman in the field at the event. 

Humphries will be in search of her first two-woman gold medal as a member of Team USA after she won Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 with her native Canada. Her push athlete, Jasmine Jones, will be making her Olympic debut. The two most recently won the World Cup race at St. Moritz on Jan. 10 and have the No. 2-seeded sled. 

Kaysha Love will debut as a pilot after she competed in the two-woman event at Beijing 2022 as a push athlete. She and Azaria Hill are seeded 8th of the 25 sleds.

Germany's Laura Nolte led the monobob event after three runs on Monday, but a few errors on her final run cost her the gold medal that went to Meyers Taylor.

The good thing for Nolte is that she gets another chance at gold, this time as the defending gold medalist, 2025 World Champion, and No. 1-ranked sled in the World Cup season.

Also primed to be in the dogfight for the podium are German pilots Kim Kalicki and Lisa Buckwitz.