BREAKING: American skier Mikaela Shiffrin tied Ingemar Stenmark’s longtime World Cup record of 86 career victories with a giant slalom win. It comes less than a week after she set the mark for women’s World Cup wins.
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin checks her time at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom race, in Are, Sweden, Friday, March 10, 2023. Shiffrin has won her record-tying 86th World Cup race with victory in a giant slalom, matched the overall record set by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark 34 years ago.
ARE, Sweden — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won her record-tying 86th World Cup race Friday with victory in a giant slalom.The 27-year-old American protected her half-second lead from the first run and finished 0.64 seconds ahead of Federica Brignone. Shiffrin crossed the finish line and put her hands to her helmet, then to her face and shook her head slowly while taking in the enormity of her achievement.Stenmark told The Associated Press last month that Shiffrin is “much better than I was.”
It was Shiffrin’s fourth straight wire-to-wire win in World Cup giant slaloms since January. In that time, she also took gold in the event at last month’s world championships in Meribel, France. Shiffrin started cautiously in her second run under the floodlights in the fast-darkening afternoon, letting half of her 1.04-second first-run advantage over Brignone slip before picking up time on the bottom half.Brignone made a theatrical bow toward Shiffrin in the post-race ceremony in the finish area.
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