The two-woman competition in bobsleigh at the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held on 20 February (heats 1 and 2) and 21 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi of Germany successfully defended their 2022 title. Their teammates Lisa Buckwitz and Neele Schuten won the silver medal, and Kaillie Humphries and Jasmine Jones of the United States won bronze. For Schuten and Jones these were the first Olympic medals.
Background The defending champions, Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi, qualified for the event. The 2022 silver medalists were Mariama Jamanka and Alexandra Burghardt; Jamanka retired from competitions. The bronze medalists were Elana Meyers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman; Meyers Taylor qualified but in 2026 she was competing together with Jadin O'Brien. Nolte won the 2025–26 Bobsleigh World Cup, having won five out of seven two-woman races that season; the remaining two races were won by Kaillie Humphries. Nolte and Levi were the 2025 World champions.
Qualification
Summary Sleds qualifiedCountriesAthletes totalNation331825201612 25 14 50
Results Rank Bib Athletes Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank Total Behind 1 Laura NolteDeborah Levi 56.97 2 56.96 1 57.26 1 57.27 1 3:48.46 — 4 Lisa BuckwitzNeele Schuten 57.05 3 57.06 2 57.43 2 57.45 2 3:48.99 +0.53 2 Kaillie HumphriesJasmine Jones 56.92 TR 1 57.24 4 57.57 4 57.48 3 3:49.21 +0.75 4 3 Kim KalickiTalea Prepens 57.13 4 57.23 3 57.46 3 57.54 4 3:49.36 +0.90 5 8 Kaysha LoveAzaria Hill 57.18 6 57.37 5 57.57 4 57.59 5 3:49.71 +1.25 6 7 Melanie HaslerNadja Pasternack 57.22 7 57.61 9 57.95 8 57.62 6 3:50.40 +1.94 7 6 Elana Meyers TaylorJadin O'Brien 57.14 5 57.99 21 57.60 6 57.76 9 3:50.49 +2.03 7 9 Debora AnnenSalomé Kora 57.42 10 57.61 9 57.83 7 57.63 7 3:50.49 +2.03 9 5 Katrin BeierlChristania Williams 57.32 9 57.63 11 57.96 9 57.68 8 3:50.59 +2.13 10 24 Breeana WalkerKiara Reddingius 57.45 11 57.60 7 57.96 9 57.81 12 3:50.82 +2.36 11 12 Bianca RibiSkylar Sieben 57.57 12 57.55 6 58.16 13 58.16 17 3:51.44 +2.98 11 13 Huai MingmingWang Xuan 57.60 13 57.60 7 58.22 14 58.02 13 3:51.44 +2.98 13 14 Melissa LotholzKelsey Mitchell 57.29 8 57.64 12 58.82 24 57.78 10 3:51.53 +3.07 14 11 Cynthia AppiahDawn Richardson Wilson 57.68 14 57.66 13 58.41 17 58.04 14 3:51.79 +3.33 15 17 Adele NicollAshleigh Nelson 58.03 20 57.97 20 58.03 11 57.80 11 3:51.83 +3.37 16 15 Kim Yoo-ranJeon Eun-ji 57.88 17 57.91 16 58.15 12 58.10 16 3:52.04 +3.58 17 10 Margot BochCarla Sénéchal 57.98 19 57.85 14 58.54 20 58.05 15 3:52.42 +3.96 18 18 Linda WeiszewskiKlaudia Adamek 57.74 15 58.36 24 58.24 15 58.29 18 3:52.63 +4.17 19 16 Viktória ČerňanskáLucia Mokrášová 57.94 18 57.86 15 58.58 21 58.31 19 3:52.69 +4.23 20 19 Giada AndreuttiAlessia Gatti 57.76 16 58.16 22 58.28 16 58.97 20 3:53.17 +4.71 21 22 Sarah BlizzardDesi Johnson 58.07 22 57.91 16 58.42 18 2:54.40 22 23 Ying QingWang Yu 58.03 20 57.96 19 58.50 19 2:54.49 23 21 Simona de SilvestroAnna Costella 58.33 24 57.93 18 58.62 23 2:54.88 24 25 Lea HaslwanterVictoria Festin 58.10 23 58.20 23 58.61 22 2:54.91 25 20 Lin Sin-rongLin Song-en 58.65 25 59.09 25 59.03 25 2:56.77
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