Kaysha Love ties for World Cup monobobsled gold in Lillehammer,

Bobsled World Cup in Lake Placid, March 2024-Monobob, Utah's Kaysha Love. Photo: John Neilson, courtesy of USABS

LILLEHAMMER, Norway — Kaysha Love of the U.S. and Bree Walker of Australia tied for the gold medal in a women’s World Cup monobob race on Saturday.

Both finished two runs with a time of 1 minute, 49.14 seconds. Laura Nolte of Germany was third in 1:49.21.

Love, from Utah, now has won seven monobob medals — three gold, three silver and one bronze — in 15 World Cup races since the start of last season. She also has medaled in each of her last four monobob races, the longest active streak on the World Cup circuit.

World Cup leader Lisa Buckwitz of Germany was fifth and has a 66-point lead over Walker and Nolte in the seasonlong monobob standings with one race remaining. Buckwitz would win her second consecutive World Cup overall monobob title with a finish of eighth place or better in the finale at Lillehammer on Feb. 15.

In the two-man race later Saturday, Frank del Duca and Manteo Mitchell were sixth for the U.S.

In the mixed skeleton race Saturday, Mystique Ro and Austin Florian placing third for the U.S.