Breezy
Johnson
Breezy Johnson is the Olympic downhill champion, winning gold at Milano Cortina 2026, and a two-time world champion from 2025. She grew up in Victor, Idaho, and moved to Salt Lake City for high school at Rowland Hall's Rowmark Ski Academy, graduating in 2013. U.S. Ski & Snowboard still lists Rowmark as her club.
Who is Breezy Johnson?
Breezy Johnson from Jackson Hole, Wyoming competes in alpine skiing (downhill and super-G) for the U.S. Alpine Ski Team. Olympic downhill champion (Milano Cortina 2026, 1:36.10); 2025 world champion in the downhill and team combined; 11 World Cup podiums
A Rowmark graduate
Johnson moved from her home in Victor, Idaho, to enroll at Rowland Hall's Rowmark Ski Academy in Salt Lake City, spent her high school years there and graduated in 2013, the Deseret News reported. Rowland Hall lists her as a member of the class of 2013, and U.S. Ski & Snowboard still lists Rowmark as her club. She joined the national team in 2014. U.S. Ski & Snowboard prints her hometown as Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Olympic champion
At Milano Cortina 2026 she won the women's downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026, in 1:36.10, four hundredths of a second ahead of Germany's Emma Aicher, by FIS timing. U.S. Ski & Snowboard said it was Team USA's first medal of the Games, on a course that had knocked her out of the 2022 Olympics when a knee injury ended that season. She was seventh in the downhill at PyeongChang 2018.
Two world titles in 2025
At the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, Austria, she won the downhill on Feb. 8 in 1:41.29 and then the team combined with Mikaela Shiffrin. Read the full profile story.
World Cup and the 2026-27 season
FIS records 11 World Cup podiums, including second at the 2026 World Cup Finals at Kvitfjell, and she finished third in the 2025-26 downhill standings, her best. U.S. Ski & Snowboard named her to the A team of the 2026-27 U.S. Alpine Ski Team on Oct. 7, 2026. The women's downhill season opens at Beaver Creek, Colorado, on Dec. 11, 2026. She is one of the Utah athletes followed on the Utah 2034 Olympics hub.
At a glance
Event
alpine skiing (downhill and super-G)
Hometown
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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Key achievements
- Olympic downhill gold, Milano Cortina 2026 (Feb. 8, 2026, 1:36.10), per FIS
- 2025 world champion in the downhill (Saalbach, Feb. 8, 2025) and the team combined with Mikaela Shiffrin
- 11 World Cup podiums, per FIS; third in the 2025-26 downhill standings, her best
- Seventh in the downhill at PyeongChang 2018
- U.S. national downhill champion in 2016 and 2020, per U.S. Ski & Snowboard
- Rowmark Ski Academy, Rowland Hall, Salt Lake City, class of 2013
- Named to the 2026-27 U.S. Alpine Ski Team A team (Oct. 7, 2026)
Official sources
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- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: 2026-27 Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team announced (Oct. 7, 2026)usskiandsnowboard.org
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Breezy Johnson athlete pageusskiandsnowboard.org
- Deseret News: Olympic gold medalist Breezy Johnson attended Rowmark Ski Academy in Salt Lake City (Feb. 20, 2026)deseret.com
- Rowland Hall: Press coverage, Rowmark at the 2026 Winter Olympicsrowlandhall.org
- FIS: Women's Olympic downhill results, Cortina d'Ampezzo (Feb. 8, 2026)fis-ski.com
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- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Johnson wins downhill gold (Feb. 8, 2026)usskiandsnowboard.org
- FIS: 2025 World Championships women's downhill results, Saalbach (Feb. 8, 2025)fis-ski.com
- FIS: Breezy Johnson biography and resultsfis-ski.com
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Johnson second at World Cup Finals, secures career-best downhill ranking (March 21, 2026)usskiandsnowboard.org
- FIS: Beaver Creek women's World Cup, December 2026fis-ski.com
What each source confirms
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: 2026-27 Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team announced (Oct. 7, 2026)
- Read 2026-10-31 in a browser: A Team, women: 'Breezy Johnson (Jackson, WY; Rowmark Ski Academy; 1/19/1996)'; 'Olympic downhill champion and two-time world champion'; 2027 World Championships in Crans Montana, Feb. 1-14.
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Breezy Johnson athlete page
- Read 2026-10-31 in a browser: hometown Jackson Hole, Wyoming; club Rowmark Ski Academy; on the team since 2014; 2016 and 2020 U.S. national downhill champion; knee injury derailed her run toward the Beijing Games; 2025 team combined gold with Mikaela Shiffrin.
- Deseret News: Olympic gold medalist Breezy Johnson attended Rowmark Ski Academy in Salt Lake City (Feb. 20, 2026)
- Moved from her home in Victor, Idaho, to enroll at Rowland Hall's Rowmark Ski Academy; spent her high school years there; graduated in 2013; joined the national team in 2014.
- Rowland Hall: Press coverage, Rowmark at the 2026 Winter Olympics
- Read 2026-10-31: 'Breezy Johnson '13', a Rowmark alumna.
- FIS: Women's Olympic downhill results, Cortina d'Ampezzo (Feb. 8, 2026)
- Johnson gold in 1:36.10; Emma Aicher (GER) +0.04; Sofia Goggia (ITA) +0.59.
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Johnson wins downhill gold (Feb. 8, 2026)
- Team USA's first medal of the Games; on a course that knocked her out of the 2022 Olympics. Its margins differ from FIS official timing, so FIS times are used.
- FIS: 2025 World Championships women's downhill results, Saalbach (Feb. 8, 2025)
- Gold in 1:41.29, ahead of Mirjam Puchner (AUT) +0.15 and Ester Ledecka (CZE) +0.21.
- FIS: Breezy Johnson biography and results
- Read 2026-10-31: 2018 Olympics downhill 7th; World Cup podiums (11: four seconds, seven thirds), including second at the Kvitfjell World Cup Finals, March 21, 2026.
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Johnson second at World Cup Finals, secures career-best downhill ranking (March 21, 2026)
- Third in the 2025-26 downhill standings, her career best.
- FIS: Beaver Creek women's World Cup, December 2026
- Read 2026-10-31: women's downhill Dec. 11 and 12, 2026, super-G Dec. 13.
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