Mikaela Shiffrin increased her record to 90 World Cup wins and 55 slalom wins at her home World Cup slalom event in Killington, Vermont, winning for the sixth time out of seven races.
Shiffrin combined her times to beat Olympic gold medalist Petra Vlhova of Slovakia by 33-hundredths of a second. Shiffrin set the fastest time in each run.
Shiffrin, who has won two of the three slalom events so far this season, has 15 more World Cup slalom wins than legendary Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark, the second most successful slalom of all time. .
Last March, Shiffrin broke Stenmark’s record of 86 wins in an Alpine World Cup event.
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Shiffrin leads Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Björgen (114 wins), German speed skater Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (98 wins), and Norwegian biathlete for the most individual World Cup wins in all Winter Olympic sports. He ranks fourth behind three retired legends: player Ole Einar Bjorndalen (95 wins). .
Shiffrin got off to a tough start this season after sustaining a bone bruise on her left tibial plateau in a fall during training last month. She visited the hospital and missed a significant amount of practice.
He then won his second race in Levi, Finland on November 12th, after Vlhova crossed the gate en route to an easy win.
Shiffrin, a Colorado native, attended Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont, 160 miles north of Killington, as a teenager.
“I say this every year, but it’s so loud, you can hear them cheering every split in the middle time,” Shiffrin said of the crowd. “Every time I pass a car, I hear them getting louder and louder. And then, oh, I don’t know if I’m in front or behind me, but either way, I’m like, I’m being backed up. So it’s great to ski with that kind of energy.”
The Alpine Ski World Cup will be held next weekend in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec in the women’s giant slalom. The men will race two downhills and one super-G in Beaver Creek, Colorado, and will be televised on NBC Sports.