Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup cross-country skiing record with 87th win

US skier Mikaela Shiffrin set the all-time World Cup record for career wins with 87 wins in her Saturday slalom win.

Shiffrin broke a tie with Ingemar Stenmark in the all-time all-time men’s and women’s all-time winners list. The Swede competed in the 1970s and 80s.

The USA Ski and Snowboard team tweeted about Shiffrin’s achievement on Saturday.

Shiffrin matched Stenmark’s mark of 86 wins with a win in the giant slalom on Friday.

“It’s pretty hard to understand,” Shiffrin said of the recording.

Having finished the last race, the American sat down and laid her head on her knees. Her partner, Taylor Shiffrin, came out and hugged her during the awards ceremony.

“My brother and sister-in-law are here and I didn’t know they were coming and that’s what makes this event so special,” Shiffrin said.

Saturday’s result marked the American’s sixth slalom win of the season and a record 53rd career win in the discipline.

Shiffrin dominated the first run and set fifth in the second, beating Swiss skier Wendy Holdener by 0.92 seconds.

Anna Svenn Larsson, who finished third at home, was the last driver to finish within a second of Shiffrin’s time.

“The best feeling is skiing the second heat when of course you want to win, you have the advantage so you have to be smart, but I also just wanted to be fast and ski the second heat as my own race,” Shiffrin said. .

“I did just that and it’s amazing.”

Shiffrin has already won her fifth overall title and titles in the slalom and giant slalom disciplines.

“It’s nice to be racing today. After such an incredible yesterday, I don’t feel any pressure,” Shiffrin said after the first run.

The victory gave Shiffrin an all-time record 12 years after her first World Cup race at age 15 on a GS in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic.

Shiffrin will compete in three more races this season at the World Cup Final next week.

The race took place at a location where many key moments in Shiffrin’s career took place. At a Swedish lakeside resort, she took her first World Cup victory in 2012 and won gold in slalom at the 2019 World Championships, becoming the first skier to win a world title in the same discipline four times in a row.

However, Are was also the place where she suffered a knee injury that kept her off the slopes for two months in the 2015-16 season and where she was due to race again in March 2020 after her death. her father the previous month. , but these races were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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