Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson have won gold in the new team combined event at the Alpine skiing world championships.

Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin's win in the team combined is second gold and third medal for US at world championships

Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson won the gold medal in the new team combined event at the Alpine skiing world championships, rising from fourth place after the downhill leg when the leaders faltered in the slalom.

The Jackson Hole, Wyoming, native was on the verge of victory when she recorded three second-place World Cup results over a one-year period ending in December 2021. Then a crash a month later ruled her out of the 2022 Beijing Olympics with a knee injury.

Breezy Johnson is the fourth American woman to win the downhill at the World Alpine Skiing Championships, marking the first major victory of her career. Johnson, the first racer, put down a time and then waited in the finish area for more than an hour to see if anybody would beat it. No one did.

Breezy Johnson won women's downhill gold for the United States, after going first out of the start hut and setting an unbeatable pace, at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Saturday.

US skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson win gold in the team combined event at the Alpine world championships.

American Breezy Johnson wins the women's downhill title at the World Ski Championships after returning from a 14-month ban.

Breezy Johnson had never won a major race before Saturday's breakthrough, one year to the day until the 2026 Olympic downhill race.