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

Just days after winning her first-ever FIS World Championships race in Saalbach, Austria — the fourth American woman ever to do so in the downhill — Teton County ski racer

Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson won the gold medal in the new team combined event at the Alpine skiing world championships, giving Shiffrin another major accolade in just her second race back from a two-month absence and extending a career-best week for Johnson.