Only two other skiers have already reached such heights: his compatriot Lindsey Vonn, who holds the female record with 82 World Cup victories, and the Swedish Ingar Stenmark, who holds the absolute record (86).
mo12345lemonde with AFP
The American has just reached the symbolic bar of the 80 victories in the Alpine ski World Cup. Mikaela Shiffrin won on Thursday, December 29, her third race in three days in the Austrian station of Semmering.
Only two other skiers have already reached such heights: his compatriot Lindsey Vonn, who holds the female record with 82 World Cup victories, and the Swedish Ingar Stenmark, who holds the absolute record (86).
To join Vonn, the last superstar of the ski, who retired in 2019, Shiffrin could use the beginning of January and his chain of technical tests (slalom/giant), where she is most regular . The calendar provides two slaloms in Zagreb on January 4 and 5 before two giants at Kranjska Gora (Slovenia) on January 7 and 8 then a new slalom on January 10 in Flachau (Austria).
127 podiums for 80 Victories
At 27 years old, the queen of skiing already has four large crystal globes, the last gleaned in the spring, six world titles (eleven medals) and two Olympic titles (three medals).
In the World Cup, her statistics are incredible: in 230 departures for more than eleven years, she has mounted 127 times on the podium and won 80 victories, more than one in three race, all disciplines combined. Fifty of its victories were acquired in slalom, a record in a single discipline.
Thursday, she first created the gaps in the first round before holding the shock on the second route to get ahead of her compatriot Paula Moltzan (at 29 hundredths), who rises on her first podium in slalom, and the German Lena Dürr (34 hundredths).
The Vail skier (Colorado) harvested her third victory in three days in Semmering after the two giants on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is even his sixth success of the season in twelve departures, his fourth consecutive after the Super-G of Saint-Moritz (Switzerland) on December 18, approaching his best successful series in 2018 (five victories in succession).
Despite her world number 1 place in the spring, this domination this season was not obvious after the failure she had known at the last Olympic Games in Beijing in February. If usually reliable, she had released three times on her strong disciplines (slalom, giant, combined) and had not collected any medal. “Echouer does not make you a loser,” she ended up understanding to bounce back, as she says on her vlog.
Only French qualified in the second round, Nastasia Noens took the 18