Mikaela Shiffrin Breaks Lindsey Vonn Womens World Cup Record
Mikaela Shiffrin has broke compatriot Lindsey Vonn’s women’s World Cup record by clinching her 83rd victory on Tuesday:
For Mikaela Shiffrin, Tuesday was more than just another giant slalom race. Her win at Kronplatz in Italy was the 83rd World Cup triumph of her career, giving her the most wins by a female skier in history.
On a gray afternoon, Shiffrin did what she does best winning from the front, leading the standings after the first run down the steep and windy slope, then delivering a clean, hard and aggressive second run to win by 45-hundredths of a second, a characteristically wide margin for a woman who is now arguably the greatest female Alpine skier to click boots into bindings.
Shiffrin bent at the waist after she cruised to a stop, pumped her fist and ski pole twice then began a long line of congratulatory hugs.
Lindsey Vonn, another American star and a role model for Shiffrin even though Vonn specialized in speed races and Shiffrin is a slalom specialist had been the sport’s previous female standard-bearer with 82 World Cup wins. Shiffrin now needs just four more wins to break Ingemar Stenmark’s record of 86 World Cup wins, the most by a male or female skier.
New York Times/Samuel Isaiah
