Three years ago, the converted track sprinter Kaysha Love became an Olympian as a brake woman at the back of a bobsled. Now she is a world champion.
LOVE has won the monobob at the World Placid World Championships, New York, becoming the fourth American pilot to win a world title in the past 65 years.
Love prevailed by 44 hundredths of a second on the German winner Nolte combining time from four points per Saturday and Sunday.
“I have no words,” said Love shortly after getting out of his sleigh and the track.
Elana Meyers Taylor won bronze, five hundredths behind Nolte. Meyers Taylor, a mother of two 40 -year -olds, won an eighth world career medal between monobob events and two women to accompany her five Olympic medals.
“Today took me a lot, and I am simply super excited,” said Meyers Taylor, who took the money from the world last year in his first season after having his second son, Noah. “I am super excited for Kaysha, excited to leave with a medal.”
After a high season of the World Cup, LOVE confirmed that she was leading an in -depth United States team – notably Meyers Taylor and the Olympic Monobob champion in 2022, KAILLIE HUMPHRIES (eighth place on Sunday of childbirth) – until the Olympic season 2025-26.
In 2020, Love was a senior in the UNLV track team.
“I was at housing nationals. There was a bobsled coach who approached me and told me that he thought I was in bad sport, “said Love last fall. “And I remember thinking like,” guy, you’re crazy. How could I be in bad sport? Like, I devoted eight years to athletics. And he told me that he thought I could be an Olympian at Bobsled if I was trying him. »»
Love participated in a virtual combination. She did the national team. Then, two months after her debut in competition, she was appointed to the 2022 Olympic team as a thrust ashlete, beating three world championship medalists.
LOVE finished seventh at the Beijing Games as a brake woman in the Humphries sled, then took a common step in driving.
“I think that if Beijing may have gone a little more in our favor or that I have become a little different, I do not know if I can honestly say that I would have continued to Bobser and especially by also continuing in the pilot role,” said Love in 2023, According to the Associated Press. “So, I am very grateful for the way that rocked.”
It rolled up the North American level of lower level in 2022-2023 and was the last or the next finish in the six races.
“At that time a year ago, I was put back my (ass) by, like everyone else,” said Love before the start of the 2023-24 World Cup season, according to AP. “My goal is to return to the Olympic Games. And I understand that it just takes more time to develop as a driver than as braking. »»
Love turned out to be a quick learner. In 2023-24, she won her first World Cup race as a pilot.
This season, she was the best American combination combination in Monobob and the two -women’s event, including the creation of the podium of her last four times that Monobob of the World Cup is starting to go to the worlds.
And on Sunday, she became the fourth American driver to win a world title since 1960 after Steven Holcomb, Meyers Taylor and Humphries.
Next weekend, she will have another chance in the two-women event in Worlds.
“I would never have thought that I would be in this position so early in my career”, ” Love said Sunday. “Obviously, it’s a massive dream for, I think, each bobsled.”
Earlier on Sunday, the quadruple Olympic gold medalist Francesco Friedrich went to a title of two men with a two -year record extent and led a scan of German medals for a second consecutive year.
Friedrich’s sled prevailed three hundredths on the Johannes Lochner rival, despite the late Lochner at the intermediate division time during his fourth and last round.
He marked the second smallest of Friedrich’s Record 15 World Titles between the events of two and four men. Friedrich and Lochner equalized for four men in 2017.
Frank Del Duca piloted a sleigh in the fourth place of the man for two. This is the best finish for a bobsleu for men in the United States in Worlds since 2013, when hints focused on Holcomb were third (four men) and fourth (two men).
Dan Meyer of NBC Sports contributed to this Lake Placid report.
Manteo Mitchell bouncing to make the Winter Olympic Games, 14 years old after having run at the Olympic Games in the Summer.