American skier Mikaela Shiffrin gained a document 83rd World Cup race Tuesday.
Shiffrin's big slalom victory broke a tie on the all-time ladies's record with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn, who retired 4 years in the past when accidents reduce her profession quick.
"It'd take me a bit bit to determine what to say," Shiffrin mentioned. "I do not know what to say proper now."
Shiffrin now wants solely three extra wins to match Ingemark Stenmark's total mark — between women and men — of 86 victories.
Stenmark competed within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s.
Shiffrin led from begin to end on the Kronplatz resort within the Italian Dolomites, crossing 0.45 seconds forward of world champion Lara Intestine-Behrami and 1.43 forward of dwelling favourite and former total champion Federica Brignone after additionally posting the quickest first run.
Shiffrin appeared exhausted and relieved instantly after ending, bending over and resting her head on her poles after which biting her lips earlier than going over to embrace Intestine-Behrami and Brignone.
Brignone advised Shiffrin, "Congrats," and Shiffrin responded, "Oh my god."
It was Shiffrin's ninth win of the season.
What's extra is that Shiffrin remains to be solely 27. Vonn was 33 when she gained her final World Cup occasion and Stenmark was 32.
"Reaching this milestone is an unimaginable accomplishment, one which I hope Mikaela is ready to savor," Vonn mentioned in an announcement after her document was damaged. "Picabo Road impressed me to turn out to be an Olympian and I bear in mind vividly how a lot of an affect she made on me. All through my profession I all the time tried to be the function mannequin for youths that Picabo was for me, and now it's Mikaela's flip to hold that torch."
Hours earlier than breaking the document, Shiffrin posted on Twitter that she had been joyful together with her snowboarding and monitor was a "pleasure to ski."
The document additionally comes practically a 12 months after Shiffrin did not win a medal in six occasions on the Beijing Olympics after coming into amid massive expectations.
Shiffrin can shortly add to her document whole in one other big slalom at Kronplatz on Wednesday. Then she has two slaloms - her greatest occasion, having accounted for 51 of her 83 victories - in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, subsequent weekend. That was the place Shiffrin made her World Cup debut as a 15-year-old in March 2011.
After a brief break, Shiffrin will then once more be a multi-medal risk on the world championships in Courchevel and Meribel, France, which begin on Feb. 6.
Shiffrin now has yet one more win than Vonn and 21 extra wins than the subsequent girl on the all-time record, Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria at 62.
60 Minutes Sports activities met Shiffrin in 2014, a month earlier than she gained her first gold medal in Sochi. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to the Burke Mountain Academy in East Burke, Vermont, the ski college that made Shiffrin the racer she is at present.