Born 10 months apart, Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson have known each other since they were placed in the same room at a junior race when they were 11. According to Shiffrin, they were “a little bit lost in a world where young girls were not really supposed to be as ambitious as we were.

Mikaela Shiffrin delivered in a comeback mission to win the inaugural team combined event at alpine skiing world championships together with downhill gold medallist Breezy Johnson on Tuesday. The pair forming team United States 1 had trailed by .

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a record-tying 15th world championships medal by taking gold in the inaugural women’s team combined event alongside Breezy Johnson.