Shiffrin Closes In On Vonn’s Record
Shiffrin Closes In On Vonn’s Record
Published : 05-Jan-2023 08:36
After being five wins behind Lindsey Vonn's record of 82 World Cup wins, the most of any female or US athlete, Mikaela Shiffrin' has taken four straight wins in the post-Christmas races to take her total to 81.
The 27 year old, who holds many records, including the most slalom wins of any racer (50), the most wins in a season and being the youngest slalom champion in Olympic alpine skiing history, at 18 years and 345 days is now one of only three Alpine ski racers to pass the 80 wins mark. She is now within five wins of all-time top race winner Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark who had his last win in Aspen in 1989, six year before Shiffrin was born.
Already a four-time Overall World Cup champion, Shiffrin already has a healthy lead in the 22-23 women's overall table with 975 points this season and is almost 400 points ahead of second placed Petra Vlhova of Slovakia.
Shiffrin races again today (5th January) in the Snow queen trophy at Zagreb in Croatia.
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