Historical. American Mikaela Shiffrin won her 87th World Cup victory by winning the slalom in Are (Sweden) on Saturday, becoming the sole holder of the success record long held by Swede Ingemar Stenmark (86). The latter wanted to salute Shiffrin’s performance, which he described as “really impressive, fantastic”. “It’s great for her. All the more so because she broke the record in Are (Sweden), where she won her first World Cup victory.added Stenmark, reached by phone and whose mark of 86 victories lasted for 34 years.
After tying Stenmark’s record the day before, Shiffrin edged Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener and Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson to hold the record for single World Tour wins. “It is difficult to understand this record. My brother and my sister-in-law are there, they surprised me. It’s super special to me. It was great to ski this second run leading, you had to be smart and fast at the same time. I did exactly what I wanted today.”said Shiffrin at the microphone of the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Canadian world slalom champion Laurence Saint-Germain took 5th place in the race. Having started well in the second run, the young Frenchwoman Marie Lamure was disqualified for having missed a gate. Her compatriot Nastasia Noens, not qualified for the second part of the race, made the last start of her international career.
Write the history of your sport
Race after race, the American, who will celebrate her 28th birthday on Monday, continues to write the history of her sport. After dominating the giant on Friday, she crushed the slalom on Saturday, and won a 13th victory this winter in the World Cup. Shiffrin is already guaranteed to win the general classification for the fifth time before the finals played next week in Soldeu (Andorra). Along the way, she is also guaranteed to lift the small globes of the giant and the slalom.
The American crossed the 2,000 point mark in the season standings on Saturday. With 2,028 points, and potentially four races to go, she would need an improbable full card to beat the 2,414 points of the Slovenian Tina Maze, achieved in 2013. We are reassured, there are still a few records that can still withstand the stunning American.