A team combined event was held at the World Championships for the first time, one year before its Olympic debut.

Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson have won gold in the new team combined event at the Alpine skiing world championships.

Breezy Johnson won women's downhill gold for the United States at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Saturday.

Breezy Johnson is the fourth American woman to win the downhill at the World Alpine Skiing Championships, marking the first major victory of her career. Johnson, the first racer, put down a time and then waited in the finish area for more than an hour to see if anybody would beat it. No one did.

The Jackson Hole, Wyoming, native was on the verge of victory when she recorded three second-place World Cup results over a one-year period ending in December 2021. Then a crash a month later ruled her out of the 2022 Beijing Olympics with a knee injury.

In the new team combined event at the Alpine skiing world championships, Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson won gold Tuesday.

Breezy Johnson won women's downhill gold for the United States, after going first out of the start hut and setting an unbeatable pace, at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Saturday. The medal was a first in a major event for the 29-year-old,

US star Mikaela Shiffrin marked her return from injury by teaming up with Breezy Johnson for a stunning combined gold at the World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Tuesday. Johnson, who won the blue riband downhill on Saturday just weeks after returning to action following a 14-month ban for three anti-doping whereabouts failures,