Mikaela Shiffrin gets 99th career victory with World Cup slalom win

Field Level Media|published: Sat 23rd November, 11:42 2024

Dec 3, 2023; Mont Tremblant, Quebec, CAN; Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States celebrates on the podium after the giant slalom race in the women's alpine skiing World Cup at Mont Tremblant. Mandatory Credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images

Mikaela Shiffrin extended her record World Cup victories to 99 with a win Saturday in the women's slalom in Gurgl, Austria.

Shiffrin won in a combined time of 1 minute, 40.22 seconds, beating Italian prodigy Lara Colturi, who starts for Albania, by 0.55 seconds and Camille Rast of Switzerland by 0.57.

It was the first World Cup top-three finish for Rast and Colturi, who became the first ever Albanian skier to reach the World Cup podium.

Saturday's win sets Shiffrin up to potentially reach a milestone 100 victories in what is essentially a home race for her next weekend in Killington, Vt. Shiffrin, a Colorado resident, trained at Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont as a teenager.

"I guess there is a bit of pressure around it, but I try to ignore that," Shiffrin said about potentially winning her 100th in Vermont. "If it happens, it's wonderful, if it doesn't happen it's kind of nothing to cry about in the grand scheme, but I hope to have a really good performance in front of the home crowd."

Shiffrin, 29, has won all four slaloms in which she's competed since returning from a knee injury following a downhill crash in January.

On March 11, 2023, in Are, Sweden, Shiffrin won her 87th World Cup race to break the record held by Ingemar Stenmark of Austria.

--Field Level Media

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