US skier Breezy Johnson wins shock downhill gold at world championships Her top speed of 86mph (138.51kph) was among the fastest ever recorded by a woman in an Alpine skiing race.
After her victory Saturday, Johnson said the first missed test “was my fault.” For the second one she said she texted her whereabouts to the wrong number.
The race was held exactly one year before the Milan-Cortina Olympics women’s downhill, which will be on the track in Cortina d’Ampezzo where Vonn holds the record of 12 World Cup wins and where Jacqueline Wiles, another active American, has finished on the podium twice.
Johnson finished 0.15 seconds ahead of silver medalist Mirjam Puchner of Austria and 0.21 ahead of bronze medalist Ester Ledecká, the Czech athlete who has won Olympic golds in both skiing and snowboarding.
“When I’m feeling confident, I feel like I do a good job of stacking the ski at the top of the turn and really driving in and creating power,” said Cochran-Siegle, the Olympic silver medalist in super-G. “I feel like that the tempo is familiar to me.
