Overview
- The 29-year-old dominated over four runs, setting a track record in the second heat and carrying a lead of more than seven tenths into the final descent.
- Teammate Merle Fräbel struck the wall shortly after the start of run three, ending her medal bid and finishing eighth after entering the day just 0.061 seconds behind.
- Elīna Bota of Latvia took silver and Ashley Farquharson of the United States claimed bronze, both nearly a second back of Taubitz.
- Taubitz’s victory is Germany’s third gold of these Games after Max Langenhan’s men’s luge title and Philipp Raimund’s normal-hill ski jumping win.
- Germany’s mixed ski-jumping team of Raimund, Agnes Reisch, Felix Hoffmann and Selina Freitag placed fourth, missing bronze by 1.2 points (about 60 centimeters) as Slovenia won gold.