Overview
- Jackson will race the 1,000 meters on Monday, Feb. 9 at 11:30 a.m. ET and the 500 meters on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 11:03 a.m. ET.
- She is the defending Olympic champion in the 500 meters, a title she won at the 2022 Beijing Games as the first Black woman to earn an individual Winter Olympic gold.
- Her selection as one of two U.S. flagbearers for the opening ceremony came via a vote of her Team USA peers.
- Since Beijing, she has won the 500 meters at the Four Continents Championships in 2024 and 2025 and earned World Single Distances team sprint silvers in 2023 and 2024.
- A late convert to the ice, Jackson began speed skating in 2017 after competing in roller derby and qualified for her first Olympics about a year later.