The 15-year friendship just got solidified through their unified efforts at the FIS Alpine World Championships.

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.

Breezy Johnson is the fourth American woman to win the downhill at the World Alpine Skiing Championships, marking the first major victory of her career. Johnson, the first racer, put down a time and then waited in the finish area for more than an hour to see if anybody would beat it. No one did.

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 will join Breezy Johnson in the women's team combined event at the Alpine world championships after initially opting out of the giant slalom due to mental struggles following an injury.

Breezy Johnson won women's downhill gold for the United States, after going first out of the start hut and setting an unbeatable pace, at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Saturday.

Breezy Johnson had never won a major race before Saturday's breakthrough, one year to the day until the 2026 Olympic downhill race.

Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson have won gold in the new team combined event at the Alpine skiing world championships.

US skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson win gold in the team combined event at the Alpine world championships.

Breezy Johnson earned her first top-level victory and became the first American woman to win a world downhill title since Lindsey Vonn in 2009. Courtesy