Mystique Ro

Mystique Ro
Ro at the 2025 IBSF World Championships
Personal information
Born (1994-07-18) July 18, 1994
Oceanside, California, U.S.
Sport
CountryUnited States
SportSkeleton
Medal record
Women's skeleton
Representing the  United States
World Championships
2025 Lake Placid Mixed team
2025 Lake Placid Women
Pan American Championships
2024 Lake Placid individual

Mystique Ro (born July 18, 1994) is an American skeleton racer. She represented the United States at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Early life

Ro attended Queens University of Charlotte where she was a track and field athlete[1][2] and heptathlete.[3] When she signed up for a bobsledding recruitment event, coaches suggested her 5-foot-4 stature was better suited to skeleton.[4]

Skeleton career

Ro represented the United States at the IBSF World Championships in 2025 and won a gold medal in the mixed team event, along with Austin Florian.[5][6] She also won a silver medal in the women's event, becoming the first American to medal in the event since Noelle Pikus-Pace in 2013.[7][8]

Ro told a reporter that in eight years of skeleton racing, she achieved a flow state merely three times, but she would continue to pursue that goal.[9]

Personal life

Ro was born to Kyu and Tamara Ro, and has eight brothers and two sisters, including a twin sister who is 14 minutes younger.[10] Ro has said that downhill ski racing makes her queasy, even though she races at up to 90 miles per hour, adding that speed racing while standing up is "a whole different ballgame".[9] She has described her fear of roller coasters.[3] Working as a tour guide at the Lake Placid Olympic Center has helped Ro fund her career.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Mystique Ro". queensathletics.com. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  2. ^ White, Herbert L. (June 2, 2020). "Mystique Ro glides and slides toward an Olympics icebreaker". The Charlotte Post. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  3. ^ a b Green, Lauren (February 13, 2026). "Mystique Ro Hates Roller Coasters, but Dove Headfirst Into Skeleton for an Olympic Dream". SI. Retrieved February 15, 2026.
  4. ^ Neumann, Sean (February 1, 2026). "Track Will Always 'Have a Special Place' in Mystique Ro's Heart, but Skeleton Led the U.S. Star to Her 'Olympic Dream'". People.
  5. ^ "First World Championships gold in skeleton mixed for the USA with Mystique Ro/Austin Florian". IBSF.org. March 8, 2025. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  6. ^ "Florian, Ro give U.S. gold at skeleton world championship". ESPN.com. March 8, 2025. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  7. ^ "Kimberley Bos first women's skeleton World Champion from the Netherlands". IBSF.org. March 7, 2025. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  8. ^ "U.S. wins skeleton's mixed team event at worlds ahead of Olympic debut; Mystique Ro earns individual silver". NBC Sports. March 9, 2025. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  9. ^ a b c Schnell, Lindsay (February 3, 2026). "How does someone get into Olympic skeleton? For Mystique Ro, it wasn't love at first sled". The Athletic. Retrieved February 15, 2026.
  10. ^ "Mystique Ro". teamusa.com. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
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