Canadian-turned-American Kaillie Humphries won Saturday in her first career race in monobob, a one-person bobsled discipline that debuts Winter Olympics in 2022 as a women’s event.
Humphries, who captured the 2010 and 2014 Olympic two-woman titles for Canada and the 2020 World two-woman title after switching to the U.S., won a World Series race in Igls, Austria, on Saturday.
She prevailed by two tenths of a second over German Laura Nolte, who won the monobob at the 2016 Youth Olympics.
In July 2018, the IOC announced that women’s monobob was one of seven new events added to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic program.