Team USA wins gold and silver medals at Beijing Winter Olympics

 

By Rebecca Falconer

Kaillie Humphries won a Winter Olympics gold medal and Elana Meyers Taylor silver in the monobob at the Beijing Games on Monday morning local time.

The big picture: Humphries finished with a time of 4:19.27 and Meyers Taylor 4:20.81. Canada's Christine de Bruin (4:21.03) won the bronze medal.

American Kaillie Humphries competes in the women's monobob bobsleigh event at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Yanqing, China on Monday morning local time. Photo: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images

 

By the numbers: This is Humphries' third Olympic gold medal and her first as a U.S. citizen. She previously won Gold for Canada in the two-person at the 2014 and 2010 Olympics.