US Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin.
Srdjan Zivulovic | Reuters
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin set the outright World Cup record for many profession victories with 87 by winning a slalom Saturday.
Shiffrin broke a tie with Ingemar Stenmark on the all-time overall winners list between men and girls. The Swede competed within the Seventies and 80s.
Shiffrin had matched Stenmark’s mark of 86 wins with victory in a large slalom Friday.
“Pretty hard to understand,” Shiffrin said concerning the record.
After ending the ultimate run, the American crouched and rested her head on her knees. Her hassle, Taylor Shiffrin, then got here out and hugged her in the course of the winners ceremony.
“My brother and sister-in-law are here and I didn’t know they were coming, that makes this so special,” Shiffrin said.
Saturday’s result marked the American’s sixth slalom win of the season and the record-extending 53rd profession win within the discipline.
Shiffrin dominated the primary run and posted the fifth-fastest time within the second to beat Swiss skier Wendy Holdener by 0.92 seconds.
Thrird-place home favorite Anna Swenn Larsson was the last racer to complete inside a second of Shiffrin’s time.
“The most effective feeling is to ski on the second run when in fact you need to win, you may have a lead so you may have to be form of be smart but in addition, I just desired to be fast, too, and ski the second run like its own race,” Shiffrin said.
“I did exactly that and that’s amazing.”
Shiffrin has already locked up her fifth overall championship and the discipline titles in slalom and GS.
“It’s nice to race today. After such an incredible day yesterday, I feel like no pressure,” Shiffrin said after the opening run.
The victory gave Shiffrin the outright record 12 years to the day after her first race on the World Cup, as a 15-year-old at a GS in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic.
Shiffrin is ready to compete in three more races this season at next week’s World Cup Finals.
The race took place at a venue where many key moments in Shiffrin’s profession happened. On the Swedish lakeside resort, she earned her first World Cup win in 2012 and took slalom gold on the 2019 world championships to develop into the primary skier to win the world title in a single discipline 4 times in a row.
Nevertheless, Are was also the place where she sustained a knee injury that kept her away from the slopes for 2 months within the 2015-16 season, and where she was because of race again in March 2020 after the death of her father the previous month, but those races were called off due to coronavirus pandemic.
