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CNN —After six weeks out of the sport, ski star Mikaela Shiffrin made a triumphant return from injury to win a record-equaling eighth World Cup slalom season title in Åre, Sweden, on Sunday. The win ties the American with Lindsey Vonn and Ingemar Stenmark, who both clinched eight crystal globes – the trophy for Alpine skiing World Cup season titles – in a single discipline. Austrian star Marcel Hirscher won eight overall season titles during his career, but not in a single discipline. It was also Shiffrin’s 96th World Cup win of her career, extending the overall record she broke back in 2023. Shiffrin rushed to his side at the hospital and was with him when he woke up from surgery.
Persons: Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn, Ingemar Stenmark, Marcel Hirscher, ” Shiffrin, Pontus Lundahl, Reuters Shiffrin, Michelle Gisin, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Kilde, , Organizations: CNN, CNN Sport, TT, Agency, Reuters Locations: Åre, Sweden, Austrian, Italy, Croatia, Norwegian, Switzerland
JASNA, Slovakia (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin built a big lead in the opening run of a women’s World Cup slalom Sunday, a day after the American ski star’s main rival sustained a season-ending injury. In the first race without Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova, Shiffrin led second-placed Croatian prodigy Zrinka Ljutic by 0.52 seconds and the rest of the field had to make up more than 1.3 on the American in the final run. Vlhova crashed and tore ligaments in her right knee in Saturday’s giant slalom near her hometown in the Tatra mountains. Political Cartoons View All 253 Images“I have been thinking about (Vlhova) a lot the last 24 hours," Shiffrin said. So, I really miss watching her ski today and having that battle.”With Vlhova out of the race, Shiffrin is close to wrapping up her eighth World Cup season title in slalom, leading third-ranked Duerr by 168 points.
Persons: Petra Vlhova, Shiffrin, Zrinka, Vlhova, Lena Duerr, Duerr, Alexis Pinturault, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Organizations: ___ Locations: JASNA, Slovakia, Czech, Wengen, Switzerland
Shiffrin wins slalom for 90th World Cup victory
  + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] Nov 26, 2023; Killington, Vermont, USA; Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA leads after the first slalom run of the Stifel Killington Cup FIS World Cup slalom at Killington Resort. Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports Acquire Licensing RightsNov 26 (Reuters) - American Mikaela Shiffrin secured a record-extending 90th World Cup win on Sunday with victory in the women's slalom at Killington in Vermont. Swiss Wendy Holdener finished third, 1.37 seconds behind home favourite Shiffrin, who has now won six of the seven World Cup slalom events held at Killington. "It's a pretty incredible hill and especially in slalom I feel like I have a good mentality," Shiffrin said after her 55th World Cup slalom victory. The win for Shiffrin, who finished third in Saturday's giant slalom, also gave the American her 141st World Cup podium, which trails only the 155 earned by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark during the 1970s and 80s.
Persons: Mikaela, Erich Schlegel, Shiffrin, Petra Vlhova, Swiss Wendy Holdener, I've, Levi, Germany's Lena Duerr, Vlhova, Frank Pingue, Hugh Lawson Organizations: USA, Olympic, Shiffrin, American, 141st, Thomson Locations: Killington , Vermont, USA, Killington, Vermont, Slovakia, Swiss, Germany's, Toronto
REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 26 (Reuters) - U.S. ski great Bode Miller expects compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin to have another dominant season and would not be surprised if she crowns it by becoming the first Alpine skier to win 100 World Cup races. Shiffrin has 88 career wins after breaking Ingemar Stenmark's long-standing record 86 last season, when she also took 14 victories over the course of the year. Miller, in Austria for the European launch of his Peak Ski Company's recreational skis, said it was not like Shiffrin was some flash in the pan. Miller, who won 33 World Cup races in all five disciplines, said that carried risks but Shiffrin was different. "For me, low on the priority scale is whether or not we can have World Cup races.
Persons: Mikaela, Mike Segar, Bode Miller, Mikaela Shiffrin, " Miller, Shiffrin, Miller, Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, Odermatt, Alan Baldwin, Christian Radnedge Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, New York City , New York, U.S, Austrian, Shiffrin, American, Soelden, Austria, London
U.S. Skier and 2023 Women's FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup Overall Champion Mikaela Shiffrin poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in Manhattan, in New York City, New York, U.S., April 26, 2023. The Vail, Colorado, native has exceeded even the most lofty expectations that were placed on her shoulders when she joined the World Cup circuit as a highly-touted 16-year-old. Now, having broken Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark's 34-year-old record of World Cup wins, she wants to put it beyond reach for the foreseeable future. Shiffrin, who has managed to avoid any serious injury setbacks in her career, said she saw complacency as the biggest threat to her health. Shiffrin will look to continue her dominance of the sport when she competes in the season-opening giant slalom at Austria's Soelden resort on Saturday.
Persons: Mikaela, Mike Segar, Mikaela Shiffrin, I'm, Shiffrin, I've, we've, Novak, Djokovic, that's, Rory Carroll, Clare Fallon Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, World, Milano, Cortina, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, New York City , New York, U.S, New York, Vail , Colorado, Beijing, Austria's, Los Angeles
Shiffrin surpassed Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark's record with an 87th World Cup win last month and then extended her haul to 88 titles as she etched her name in the pantheon of sporting greats. A slalom specialist by trade, having won 53 of her World Cup golds in the event compared to just three in the downhill - the 28-year-old wants to broaden her skillset. "I don't think I could ever switch from slalom to downhill. But I do feel like I want to branch more into exploring what my abilities are in downhill," said Shiffrin. So I feel, like, quite comfortable - slalom giant, slalom super-G - but downhill is a little bit of an unexplored world for me."
[1/5] Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Women's Giant Slalom - Soldeu, Andorra - March 19, 2023 Mikaela Shiffrin of the U.S celebrates with the globe trophy after winning the women's Slalom REUTERS/Albert GeaMarch 19 (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin extended her record to 88 World Cup victories after dominating the season-ending giant slalom in Soldeu on Sunday to win her 14th event of the season. Victory also gave the American her 138th podium to break the women's record she shared with compatriot Lindsey Vonn after finishing third in Saturday's slalom. Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark holds the men's record for most podiums with 155. Shiffrin, who broke Stenmark's record of 87 wins earlier this month, had already won the slalom and giant slalom titles along with the overall crystal globe. Pre-race favourites, including last year's Olympic champion Sara Hector of Sweden, Italy's Federica Brignone and Saturday's slalom winner Petra Vlhova, did not finish their first run after crashing through gates.
Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup skiing record with 87th win
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin set the outright World Cup record for most career victories with 87 by winning a slalom Saturday. Saturday's result marked the American's sixth slalom win of the season and the record-extending 53rd career win in the discipline. The victory gave Shiffrin the outright record 12 years to the day after her first race on the World Cup, as a 15-year-old at a GS in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic. Shiffrin is set to compete in three more races this season at next week's World Cup Finals. At the Swedish lakeside resort, she earned her first World Cup win in 2012 and took slalom gold at the 2019 world championships to become the first skier to win the world title in one discipline four times in a row.
Shiffrin claims fifth overall World Cup title
  + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
March 4 (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin secured her fifth overall women's World Cup title when she took fifth place in the downhill in Kvitfjell, Norway, on Saturday, but her wait for a record-equalling 86th World Cup win continues. Shiffrin, who won three consecutive overall World Cup titles from 2017-19 as well as one in 2022, is now one shy of the women's record held by Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell, winner from 1971-75 and in 1979. Shiffrin is also one race win away from equalling Swedish men's slalom great Ingemar Stenmark's decades-old record of 86 World Cup victories. She broke the women's record of 82 World Cup wins in January. Home favourite Kajsa Vickhoff Lie won the race, becoming the first-ever Norwegian woman to win a World Cup downhill.
Mikaela Shiffrin broke Lindsey Vonn's all-time alpine skiing World Cup record in Kronplatz, Italy. Shiffrin then mocked the stigma around "talking about my period" in tongue-in-cheek social media posts. After winning her 84th World Cup title in Kronplatz, Italy, Wednesday, the newly crowned winningest World Cup champion in women's alpine skiing history was radically honest about being at "an unfortunate time of my monthly cycle" for the race. Shiffrin competes in a 2022 women's World Cup slalom in Flachau, Austria. In the Twitter comments, Shiffrin further explained the many ways that having one's period can impact athletes ahead of major competitions.
Greatness is in the eye of beholder, says Shiffrin
  + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
A day after capturing her 83rd career win in Kronplatz to surpass American compatriot Lindsey Vonn's record for the most women's World Cup victories, Shiffrin turned her sights on Stenmark's mark of 86. With three more wins Shiffrin would statistically become the most successful Alpine skier ever, but for the 27-year-old, the title of greatest will remain open to debate. "If you know anything about ski racing at all and even if they don't they know about Ingemar Stenmark. "I don't think that is something that I can surpass, I don't know if I ever will." The slalom is Shiffrin's signature event with 51 wins, the most for any Alpine skier in any discipline.
Unstoppable Shiffrin extends her record to 84 wins
  + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Shiffrin, 27, is now only two wins short of the absolute record of 86 wins racked up by Swedish men's slalom great Ingemar Stenmark in the 1970s and 1980s. The victory took Shiffrin's career World Cup giant slalom tally to 19 wins, one short of retired Swiss great Vreni Schneider's women's record of 20 in the discipline. A fifth large crystal globe for the overall World Cup winner also looks inevitable, with Shiffrin now on 1,517 points to Swiss rival Lara Gut-Behrami's 906. She had explained after Wednesday's first leg that breaking the record had made it hard to switch off. "This season I was thinking if I could get four wins, five wins, maybe six, then that's the most I could possibly get.
"Everybody is doing their job and my only job is to try to make some good turns and ski fast. Shiffrin burst onto the international racing scene as an 18-year-old in 2014 when she became the youngest slalom champion in Olympic history. "When people said you're going to break record, you're a 'phenom,' all these words that people used. After breaking fellow American Lindsey Vonn's record with a giant slalom win at the Italian resort of Kronplatz, Shiffrin is now just three wins away from matching the all-time record set by men's slalom great Ingemar Stenmark. Asked about potentially breaking Stenmark's record, she immediately turned to praise the Swede, whose 86 World Cup victories came in the 1970s and 1980s.
The victory puts the 27-year-old just three wins away from the all-time record held by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who captured 86 World Cup wins between 1974 and 1989. Eclipsing Vonn is the latest history-making achievement by the twice Olympic gold medallist and four-time overall World Cup champion, who could potentially end her career with more than 100 victories on the ski racing circuit. She ended that season as the Olympic, World Cup and world champion in slalom and her profile grew considerably as media appearances and sponsorships began to pile up for the amiable 18-year-old star. A powerful and precise skier, Shiffrin is the only athlete to win World Cups in all six disciplines - downhill, super-G, alpine combined, giant slalom, slalom, and parallel. Her mettle intact, she went on to win her fourth overall World Cup title later that year.
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Shiffrin claims second World Cup slalom win of weekend
  + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
[1/3] Alpine Skiing - FIS Ski World Cup - Slalom - Levi, Finland - November 20, 2022 Mikaela Shiffrin of the U.S. celebrates after winning the women's slalom competition Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via REUTERSNov 20 (Reuters) - American Mikaela Shiffrin won her second slalom of the weekend on Sunday to secure the 76th World Cup victory of her career. The 27-year-old triumphed again in Levi, Finland ahead of Switzerland's Wendy Holdener (+0.28), with Slovakia's Petra Vlhova (+0.68) in third. World Cup overall champion Shiffrin is now five wins behind Lindsey Vonn, who tops the women's list of most World Cup race victories, and 10 behind Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden for the overall record. "I really didn’t expect today, even after the first run, everyone who is racing is so strong right now," Shiffrin told reporters. Reporting by Tommy Lund in Gdansk, editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
CNN —Mikaela Shiffrin claimed her 75th World Cup win in Levi, Finland on Saturday, sealed with an electrifying second run, as she broke Lindsey Vonn’s record for the most podiums in a single discipline by a female skier. She is now just seven World Cup wins shy of her fellow American’s record 82 wins for a female skier and 11 behind the all-time leader, Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark. “On the second run I made adjustments and it felt like a really good pace and tempo. Alessandro Trovati/AP“Today was a really good day. And, as well as the gold medal, Shiffrin will return home from Levi with her fifth Lapland reindeer, the traditional prize at Levi.
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewTwo-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin has praised Simone Biles for helping to give other athletes the confidence to speak more openly about their own mental health struggles. Biles became the story of the Tokyo Olympics when she withdrew from four of her five events, citing mental health difficulties as the cause. At the games, Biles suffered from a mental block known as the "twisties," where she felt disoriented in the air. This week, skiing phenom Shiffrin became the latest big name in sports to endorse Biles' openness about her struggles.
Persons: , Mikaela Shiffrin, Simone Biles, Biles, Gregory Bull, Shiffrin, I'm, Alexander Hassenstein, Simone, Tim Clayton, Corbis Organizations: Service, Tokyo Olympics, Business, Getty, Beijing, Olympics
Americanca Mikaela Shiffrin a obţinut prima sa victorie în actuala stagiune a Cupei Mondiale de schi alpin. Sportiva în vârstă de 25 de ani a câștigat proba de slalom uriaş, competiție ce s-a desfășurat în stațiunea franceză Courchevel.La capătul celor două manșe ea a obţinut timpul total de două minute, 19 secunde și 63 de sutimi.Pe locul secund s-a clasat italianca Federica Brignone, iar treapta a treia i-a revenit franţuzoaicei Tessa Worley.Aceasta este cea de-a 67-a victorie obținută de Shiffrin la Cupa Mondială, care o plasează pe locul trei în istorie. Schioarea la egalat la acest capitol pe austriacul Marcel Hirscher. Topul este condus de suedezul Ingemar Stenmark cu 86 victorii iar pe doi e Lindsey Vonn cu 82 de victorii.Shiffrin nu a mai participat la etapele din Cupa Mondială de la finele lui ianuarie, fiind foarte afectată de decesul tatălui său, cel care a susţinut-o puternic în cariera sportivă și s-a stins subit din viaţă la vârsta de 65 de ani.După succesul la Courchevel, dubla campioană olimpică a izbucnit în lacrimi.Până la începutul actualului sezon, americanca a avut şi o problemă la spate și a ratat astfel deschiderea competiţiei dar şi primele curse.
Persons: Americanca Mikaela, Marcel Hirscher, Ingemar, Lindsey, americanca Organizations: Cupei Mondiale, Cupa Mondială Locations: lacrimi.Până
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