Alpine skiing: American Mikaela Shiffrin, from record to record

Is he already the greatest skier in history? Mikaela Shiffrin won 83^e Alpine Skiing World Cup event, Tuesday, January 24, during the Giant Slalom in Kromplatz, Italy. On Sunday, January 8, at Kraniska Gora in Slovenia, the American equaled her compatriot and senior, Lindsey Vonn, who retired in 2019. He only had to wait a little more than two weeks before holding the World Cup singles record.

A very early skier since 2011, Shiffrin should continue to produce in the coming years. Colorado skier reached 83 marks World Cup wins under the age of 28 (she will have it on March 13), nearly six years ahead of Lindsay Vonn. Barring injury, Shiffrin should continue to rack up the Globes and medals. Everything seems to be in place for him to shine at the Courchevel Worlds (February 6 to 19). He has another record: 86 successes of the Swede Ingemar Stenmark, a mark that dates back to 1989. An overview of some of the key figures in Michaela Shiffrin’s career.

17 years

Mikaela Shiffrin started breaking records early: a day before she turned 16 in 2011, she competed in her first World Cup race, the giant slalom, in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic. Two years later, at the age of 17, she won her first world slalom title in Schladming, Austria, and then the following year in Sochi, Russia, at the age of 18 years and 345 days, she became the youngest Olympic champion (men and women). combined).

34.9%

That’s the American’s World Cup win rate, 83 of 238 races. He’s clearly better than Lindsey Vonn, but hints at almost 21% success in the field (82 successes for 395 departures). Shiffrin finished with a 131 First on the podium, that is, more than twice (55%).

51 slalom

He has never skied and never violated the discipline of a skier so much. With 51 slalom wins, the American holds the record, ahead of Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark (46 giant slalom wins) for men and Lindsey Vonn (43 downhill wins) for women. Shiffrin, from Vail, Colorado, notably won the slalom in Killington (USA) five times and Levi (Finland) six times.

17 wins in one season

With 17 wins in the winter of 2018-2019, Mikaela Shiffrin also holds the record for most wins in a single season. There are already nine successes in the current exercise, which will end on March 19 in Soldeu, Andorra.

Winner in 7 categories

He is the most versatile skier in the history of alpine skiing: he is the only one who has won in each of the seven existing (or existing) disciplines at the highest level: in addition to 51 successes in the slalom, he has 18. Victory in the giant – a record, ahead of the French Tessa Worley, who has 17 successes -, 5 Super-Skills, 3 Downhill, 1 Combined, 3 City Event (a format where skiers compete in a duel) and 2 Team Parallel (Slalom for two mixed teams starting at the same time on an identical course).

12 orbs

In 13 World Championship seasons, he won four big globes (the big globe awards the first skier in the general classification at the end of the season) and eight small ones (six in slalom, one in giant and one in super-G).

He has the smallest globe of all active skiers. However, it is far behind the 20 titles won by her compatriot Lindsey Vonn or the same total of Austrian Marcel Hirscher, who notably won 8 consecutive Grand Globes from 2012-2019.

14 medals at the Olympic Games and the world

Mikaela Shiffrin has won 14 medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships: two golds and one silver at the Sochi (2014) and PyeongChang (2018) Games, and six golds, two silvers and three bronzes at the World Championships. Mikaela Shiffrin, on the other hand, returned empty-handed from Beijing 2022, her biggest failure to date.