Jasmine Jones will return from the Milan Cortina Games as an Olympic medalist.
Jones, a Greensburg native and former track star at Hempfield High School, competes in the two-women bobsled race with pilot and four-time Olympic medalist Kelly Humphries.
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After four rounds of competition on Saturday, the pair clocked a combined time of 3 minutes and 49.21 seconds to claim the bronze medal. The pair finished just three-quarters of a second behind the second-place German team. The German team also won a gold medal.
From left, German silver medalists Lisa Buckwitz and Neele Schuten, German gold medalists Deborah Levi and Laura Nolte, and U.S. bronze medalists Kaillie Armbruster Humphries and Jasmine Jones celebrate after two women’s bobsled events at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Saturday, February 21, 2026, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
While this is Humphries’ second medal at the 2026 Olympics, it’s her first for Jones, who made her Olympic debut the day before.
Team USA’s Kaysha Love and Azaria Hill were fifth with a time of 3:49.71, and Elana Meyers Taylor and Jadin O’Brien were seventh with a time of 3:50.49.
A six-time Olympian, Taylor earlier won a gold medal in the women’s single ski event.
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