Wiles, Moltzan Win Bronze in Team Combined

Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan, representing Team USA 2, won the bronze medal in the team combined at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Tuesday. Team USA 1 of Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin, finished fourth. 

It was the first time the women's team combined had been competed at the Olympics, a race that combines one athlete running a downhill and another athlete doing a slalom, and Team USA brought heavy hitters in each of the four teams. In the downhill, Olympic downhill champion from just two days prior Breezy Johnson led the way again, taking first place. Jackie Wiles sat in fourth place.

The slalom was a tricky set by the Austrians, which resulted in quite a few DNFs, but Wiles' partner Moltzan powered down the course with ease to stick the team into second place. She met up with Wiles in the finish, and they played the waiting game while the next three teams came down. Wiles/Moltzan were bumped to third by Austria 2, with just Shiffrin to go to for USA 1. She delivered a powerful performance, but it was just short of the podium, pushing the team into fourth place. 

"I didn't sleep well the last couple of nights, but I felt grateful that I had another opportunity with Paula," said Wiles, who had finished just off the downhill podium in fourth on Sunday. "I just tried to move forward quickly. Paula gave me some really nice words of encouragement. It’s really special that both of us had that same kind of feeling coming in, like we wanted it that badly, wanting it for everybody."

"I knew I had a lot of faith in the process, and Jackie had set us up in an incredible start position," said Moltzan. "I watched a lot of people and processed what I needed to do, took some deep breaths and took my husband's words of wisdom, which was that pressure is a privilege."

Team USA 3, consisting of Keely Cashman and AJ Hurt were 15th, while Team USA 4 of Bella Wright and Nina O'Brien was a DNF. 

Austria's Ariane Raeddler and Katharina Huber teamed up to win the gold, while Germany's Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher took the silver. The medal was Aicher's second of these Games as she also won the silver in Sunday's downhill.

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Olympic team combined