Alpine skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin takes record 83rd World Cup win

The question was no longer if it would get there, but when it would get there. Michaela Shiffrin shot 83 on Tuesday, January 24th^e Victory at the Alpine Skiing World Cup, a record in the discipline, by winning the first of two giant slaloms in Kronplatz, Italy.

Thanks to her ninth win of the season – four in the slalom, four in the giant and one in the super – the American, who celebrates her 28th birthday in March, now has one win over compatriot Lindsay Vonn. It would take just two weeks for him to become the sole record holder after his most recent success in Kranjska Gora (Slovenia) on January 8. And he can already beat Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark’s all-time record of 86 World Cup victories in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Soldeu (Andorra) before the end of the season.

The skier from Vail, Colorado, can equal that mythical mark at the world championships in Meribel (Feb. 6-19) if she wins the three women’s races on the program, again in the giant slalom at Kronplatz on Wednesday, then at Spindleruv Mlyn on Saturday and Sunday. Czech Republic) in slalom, his favorite discipline with 51 career victories, again a record.

A record crop of medals

“There are no words to explain all these feelings, during the day he is simultaneously stressed, sometimes calmer, sometimes nervous.”He responded to Eurosport. “Just trying to breathe and enjoy it”He added and thanked the creators of the track: “These are the best conditions we’ve had this season in racing. »

“To reach this stage is an incredible achievement”Welcome to Lindsey Vonn, who quotes the American Federation. “We Americans have been able to produce some incredible athletes and I can’t wait to see who Mikaela inspires”he added.

During the first Giant of Kronplatz, Mikaela Shiffrin put on a show by setting the best time of the two runs. She is 45/100 ahead of Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behram and Italy’s Federica Brignone by 1 second 43/100. French Tessa Worley, winner of the Dolomites in 2021, finished fifth in the race.

Mikaela Shiffrin, who returned empty-handed from the Beijing Olympics in February 2022, then made the most beautiful recovery to win the Grand Globes in the general classification, the fourth of her career. A solid leader of the circuit – she has more than 550 points ahead of her nearest pursuer, Lara Gut-Behram – the American is ideally set up for the Worlds in France, during which she aims for a record medal haul.