Elizabeth Lemley and Jaelin Kauf earned a gold-silver finish in the women’s moguls for Team USA on Wednesday at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Lemley and Kauf produced the first-ever American one-two finish in a women’s freestyle skiing event in Olympics history.
It was also the first time at the Milan Cortina Games in which Team USA earned multiple medals in a single event.
Lemley threw down the gold-medal winning score halfway through the final round.
The 20-year-old Colorado native had to anxiously wait as Kauf and a few of the other top qualifiers went down the moguls course.
Kauf came closest to knocking Lemley off the podium with a score of 80.77.
Australia’s Jakara Anthony was the top qualifier going into the final, but she did not factor in the medal conversation because of a fall early in her run. Anthony was the gold-medal winner in moguls in 2022.
Lemley’s win made her the third-ever American woman to take home gold in moguls and the first since Hannah Kearney was victorious in Vancouver in 2010.
Kauf repeated her silver medal from the Beijing Games. She is the second American woman to earn two medals in moguls. Kearney also won bronze in 2014.
Lemley and Kauf provided Team USA with its second and third medals in freestyle skiing. Alex Hall took silver in the men’s slopestyle on Tuesday.
Lemley earned the third American gold medal of the Milan Cortina Games. The Americans also won gold in team figure skating and through Breezy Johnson in the women’s downhill.
France’s Perrine Laffont, the moguls gold medalist in 2018, completed the medal podium with a third-place finish.
