Kaillie Humphries

Kaillie Humphries, born on September fourth, nineteen eighty-five, is a distinguished bobsledder who has represented both Canada and the United States in her illustrious career. She made history as one of the first women to pilot a mixed-gender team in a four-person bobsled competition and was the first female driver to compete against men in a four-person World Cup bobsled race.

Humphries achieved remarkable success while representing Canada, securing Olympic gold medals in the two-woman bobsled events at the twenty-ten and twenty-fourteen Winter Olympics. In twenty eighteen, she earned a bronze medal alongside brakewoman Phylicia George. Notably, her victory in twenty fourteen made her the first female bobsledder to defend an Olympic title, and she had the honor of being the flagbearer for the Olympic closing ceremony, alongside brakewoman Heather Moyse.

In twenty nineteen, Humphries transitioned to represent the United States, citing alleged harassment from the Canadian bobsled federation. This change led to her winning three IBSF World Championship medals for Team USA during the twenty twenty and twenty twenty-one seasons, solidifying her status as a five-time world champion and the most decorated woman in bobsled history. She made headlines by sweeping both the two-woman and monobob events at the twenty twenty-one IBSF World Championships, becoming the first female bobsledder to achieve a double world title.

In February twenty twenty-two, just two months after becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen, Humphries was named to the U.S. bobsledding team for the Beijing Winter Olympics. She triumphed in the monobob event, making history as the first woman to win Olympic gold medals for two different countries, the United States and Canada, and the first person to achieve this remarkable feat.