Mikaela Shiffrin gets historic 100th World Cup race win, ties podiums record

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Mikaela Shiffrin The best of the History of the Ski World Cup is 100%.

The 100th record of Shiffrin, the victory of the World Cup in career, the victory of the Corpoire World Cup won a quest suspended by a serious accident in November.

Back in the race in his privileged Slalom event, Shiffrin kept and added in his lead to finish 0.61 seconds ahead of Zrinka Ljutic. The American teammate of Shiffrin, Paula Moltzan, finished third.

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Mikaela Shiffrin in the United States accelerates the course during an alpine skiing, slalom of the Women’s World Cup, in Sestriere, Italy, Sunday, February 23, 2025.

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Shiffrin also equaled a record of the World Cup of all time for men and women, while its 155th top-3 in career on the podium equaled the Grand Ingemar Stenmark.

Shiffrin crossed the finish line and took a long look at the dashboard showing his victory. She then looked at her left shoulder again with an expression of astonishment.

She lay down on the snow with her right hand on her helmet and was helped at her feet by Moltzan who hugged her.

Shiffrin cried at the beginning when asked in an post-race interview what it meant after all that she had experienced in recent months.

“Everyone had been so kind and favorable. I am so grateful, thank you,” she said.

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Mikaela Shiffrin celebrated on the podium of the female slalom event during the Alpine ski cup in Sestriere, Italy, February 23, 2025.

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Shiffrin The 99th victory was won Exactly three months ago in a slalom in Gurgl, Austria.

N ° 100 had been clearly in sight a week later when Shriffin crushed a giant slalom in KillingtonVermont, all in quick running as a leading leader.

The wounds she suffered during a tumultuous fall – a severe trauma to her oblique muscles and a deep punctuation – put her away for several weeks and left Anxiety “similar to an SSPT on the giant race slalom.

In two giant slaloms at the Sontriere, she placed 25th Friday And Saturday ended outside the fastest top-30 racers in the first round for the first time since 2012.

Shiffrin and Stenmark are the two biggest records of the 58th anniversary in the history of the World Cup.

His record of 86 World Cup victories was broken by Shiffrin in March 2023, almost 34 years after his last victory. Stenmark’s 86th victory – a giant slalom in Aspen, Colorado in February 1989 – was also his 155th and last podium result.

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