Ski star Mikaela Shiffrin has added one more chapter to her ebook of World Cup information by changing into the primary to achieve the milestone of 100 profession wins.
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Lower than 14 years after her debut race as a 16-year-old in March 2011, the American received a slalom in Italy on Sunday to get her tally of victories to 3 digits.
No different skier, male or feminine, has ever received greater than 86 races.
Shiffrin has racked up 63 wins in slalom, 22 in big slaloms, 5 in super-G, 4 in downhill, 1 in Alpine mixed and 5 in parallel races.
The 2-time Olympic champion accomplished her century of World Cup victories in 278 begins for a whopping win fee of 36%. “I wasn’t planning to win”
Here’s a take a look at 10 of Shiffrin’s most notable World Cup victories.
— No. 1: Slalom in Are, Sweden on Dec. 12, 2012
In her twenty fourth World Cup begin and early in her first full season on the circuit, Shiffrin lands her maiden victory in an evening race. At 17, she turns into the second-youngest American ever to win a World Cup race, after Judy Nagel.
— No. 4: Slalom in Lenzerheide, Switzerland on March 16, 2013
Making up an enormous opening-run deficit of 1.17 seconds for a come-from-behind win within the season-ending slalom sees Shiffrin edge out general champion Tina Maze within the remaining slalom standings. Shiffrin will get her first crystal globe, a day after her 18th birthday.
— No. 16: Slalom in Aspen, Colorado on Nov. 28, 2015
Shiffrin crushes the sphere to win a race in her native Colorado by 3.07 seconds, nonetheless the biggest-ever successful margin in a ladies’s World Cup slalom. “I don’t know if the stars will ever align like that again,” she says. They nearly do the following day, when Shiffrin wins one other slalom by 2.65 seconds.
— Nos. 24-26: Two big slaloms, one slalom in Semmering, Austria on Dec. 27-29, 2016
Three races on three consecutive days between Christmas and New 12 months — and Shiffrin wins all of them. This achievement, although, isn’t a one-off. When the Austrian resort hosts three races in three days once more in 2022, Shiffrin simply does all of it once more.
— No. 33: Downhill in Lake Louise, Alberta on Dec. 2, 2017
After beginning as a tech specialist, Shiffrin ventures into velocity occasions in late 2016 on the best way to her first general title. In solely her third downhill begin a yr later, she will get her first podium, solely to again it up along with her maiden downhill victory the following day. “I wasn’t planning to win,” she says, simply “do my best and see what happened.” “It’s not over yet, which is even more ridiculous”
— No. 46: Tremendous-G in Lake Louise on Dec. 2, 2018
A yr to the day after her first downhill triumph, Shiffrin wins a super-G and turns into the one skier, male or feminine, with wins in all six Alpine disciplines. Shiffrin goes on to win 17 races that season; no different skier has ever received greater than 14 in a single World Cup marketing campaign.
— No. 67: Big slalom in Courchevel, France on Dec. 14, 2020
What may seem to be simply one other GS win is certainly one of her most significant victories — the primary because the loss of life of her father, Jeff Shiffrin, 10 months earlier. “I definitely didn’t ski alone today. I had a lot of strength from a lot of people. It’s a bit bittersweet,” Shiffrin says after the race.
— No. 73: Slalom in Schladming, Austria on Jan. 11, 2022
Beating her long-term rival Petra Vlhova, Shiffrin provides slalom victory No. 47 to her tally, greater than another skier, male or feminine, has ever received in a single self-discipline. The earlier finest mark — 46 GS wins by Swedish nice Ingemar Stenmark — stood for 33 years.
— No. 87: Slalom in Are on March 11, 2023
Lower than seven weeks after overtaking Lindsey Vonn because the winningest feminine ski racer along with her profession win 83, Shiffrin units the outright report. The very best mark of 86 wins appeared unbeatable when Stenmark set it 34 years earlier, however Shiffrin will get win No. 87 — in a race held in Stenmark’s house nation. “It’s pretty hard to describe — and it’s not over yet, which is even more ridiculous,” Shiffrin says.
— No. 100: Slalom in Sestriere, Italy on Feb. 23, 2025
Even earlier than Shiffrin was to beat his report of 86 wins, Stenmark predicted in an interview in early 2023 that the American “can win more than 100.” Two years later, Shiffrin reaches the milestone in what’s her first World Cup victory after a two-month damage break. She sustained an belly damage in a GS crash at her house race in Killington, Vermont in November, when she led within the second run and appeared on the right track for win No. 100.
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