Unbeatable. Mikaela Shiffrin won her 81e victory on the world circuit after flying over the Zagreb slalom on Wednesday January 4. Thanks to this new success, the fifth consecutive World Cup (a super-G, two giants, two slaloms), the American skier, who notably scored a hat-trick in Semmering at the end of December, is only one unit away. of the emblematic record of her compatriot Lindsey Vonn (82 career victories in the World Cup) and five of the absolute record held by the Swedish legend of world skiing, Ingemar Stenmark (86).
On the Croatian track, Mikaela Shiffrin beat the Slovak Olympic champion Petra Vlhova by 76 hundredths and the Swedish Anna Swenn Larsson by 1 second 21/100. The only Frenchwoman to qualify in the second round, Niçoise Nastasia Noens finished 12e of the race.
“I’m very happy, I had a lot of fun skiing, I produced my best ski in both runs. I took the risks I needed. It’s an amazing feeling when it all happens like this.”Jubilee the American at the microphone of the International Ski Federation.
Outstanding statistics
At 27, Mikaela Shiffrin already has four large crystal globes, the last of which was gleaned in the spring, six world titles (eleven medals) and two Olympic titles (three medals). In the World Cup, her statistics are incredible: in 231 starts for more than eleven years, she has been on the podium 128 times and has therefore won more than one race in three, all disciplines combined. Fifty-one of his victories came in slalom, a record in a single discipline.
The native of Colorado will have the opportunity on Thursday during a new slalom in Zagreb to enter the history of women’s skiing, she who missed out on the Beijing Olympics in February 2022. Two other opportunities will also be offered to her, on January 7 and 8, with the giant slaloms of Kranjska Gora, in Slovenia.
Already four times winner of the big crystal globe, Mikaela Shiffrin now flies in the general classification of the World Cup with 389 points ahead of her runner-up, the Slovak Petra Vlhova.