{"id":120624,"date":"2026-02-22T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120624\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:18:13","slug":"pa-native-jasmine-jones-wins-first-olympic-medal-in-two-woman-bobsled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120624\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. native Jasmine Jones wins first Olympic medal in two-woman bobsled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pa. native Jasmine Jones wins first Olympic medal in two-woman bobsled<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 4:40 PM EST Feb 21, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania native Jasmine Jones and her teammate, Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, won the bronze medal in the two-woman bobsled final on Saturday. RUN 1 | 56.92 seconds, first place.RUN 2 | They clocked a time of 57.24, which dropped them to third place overall.RUN 3 | They remain in third place overall with a total time of 2:51.73 RUN 4 (final run) | The team won bronze with a total time of 3:49.21 Germany won the gold and silver medals. This is Jones’ first career Olympic medal, won during her debut at Milan Cortina. Humphries won her second bronze medal of the 2026 Games. Her first was in monobob earlier this week. About Jasmine JonesJones grew up in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a standout basketball player and a two-time state champion in the 4x100m relay at Hempfield Area High School.After high school, Jones attended Eastern Michigan University, where she competed in track and field, specializing in sprints. She was nominated for an All-American award by her strength coach, resulting in an email from five-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers-Taylor, telling her to try out for the U.S. bobsled team.Off the ice, Jones is a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force and trains in Lake Placid, New York, as part of the Air Force World Class Athlete Program.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania native Jasmine Jones and her teammate, Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, won the bronze medal in the two-woman bobsled final on Saturday. <\/p>\n

RUN 1 | 56.92 seconds, first place.RUN 2 | They clocked a time of 57.24, which dropped them to third place overall.RUN 3 | They remain in third place overall with a total time of 2:51.73 RUN 4 (final run) | The team won bronze with a total time of 3:49.21 <\/p>\n

Germany won the gold and silver medals. <\/p>\n

This is Jones’ first career Olympic medal, won during her debut at Milan Cortina. <\/p>\n

Humphries won her second bronze medal of the 2026 Games. Her first was in monobob earlier this week. <\/p>\n

About Jasmine Jones<\/p>\n

Jones<\/a> grew up in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a standout basketball player and a two-time state champion in the 4x100m relay at Hempfield Area High School.<\/p>\n

After high school, Jones attended Eastern Michigan University, where she competed in track and field, specializing in sprints. She was nominated for an All-American award by her strength coach, resulting in an email from five-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers-Taylor, telling her to try out for the U.S. bobsled team.<\/p>\n

Off the ice, Jones is a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force and trains in Lake Placid, New York, as part of the Air Force World Class Athlete Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pa. native Jasmine Jones wins first Olympic medal in two-woman bobsled Updated: 4:40 PM EST Feb 21, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56949,56953,56950,56955,56954,56948,15338,56957,45642,29089,56952,28,30,29,11405,11621,56956,526,7087,56951,1562],"class_list":{"0":"post-120624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-bobsledding","9":"tag-bronze","10":"tag-bronze-medal","11":"tag-first-olympic-medal","12":"tag-hempfield-area-high-school","13":"tag-jasmine-jones","14":"tag-jones","15":"tag-lake-placid","16":"tag-milan-cortina","17":"tag-olympics","18":"tag-pa-native-jasmine-jones","19":"tag-pennsylvania","20":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","21":"tag-pennsylvania-news","22":"tag-run","23":"tag-team","24":"tag-third-place","25":"tag-time","26":"tag-train","27":"tag-two-woman","28":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}