SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol — 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 checklist with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn. Vonn retired 4 years in the past when accidents reduce her profession brief.
“It would take me a bit of bit to determine what to say,” Shiffrin mentioned. “I don’t know what to say proper now.”
Shiffrin now wants solely three extra wins to match Ingemark Stenmark’s general mark — between women and men — of 86 victories.
Stenmark competed within the 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 residence favourite and former general 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 continues to be solely 27. Vonn was 33 when she gained her final World Cup occasion and Stenmark was 32.
The document additionally comes almost a 12 months after Shiffrin didn’t 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.