ARE, Sweden (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin gained her record-tying 86th Global Cup race Friday with victory in a large slalom.
Shiffrin’s win matched the entire listing set via Swedish nice Ingemar Stenmark 34 years in the past.
The 27-year-old American secure her half-second lead from the primary run and completed 0.64 seconds forward of Federica Brignone.
Shiffrin crossed the end line and put her fingers to her helmet, then to her face and shook her head slowly whilst taking within the enormity of her success.
“That is only a impressive day. Oh my goodness,” she stated in a course-side interview. Stenmark instructed The Related Press remaining month that Shiffrin is “significantly better than I used to be.”
It was once Shiffrin’s fourth directly wire-to-wire win in Global Cup massive slaloms since January. In that point, she additionally took gold within the tournament eventually month’s international championships in Meribel, France.
Shiffrin began cautiously in her moment run beneath the floodlights within the fast-darkening afternoon, letting half of of her 1.04-second first-run merit over Brignone slip prior to selecting up time at the backside half of.
Brignone made a theatrical bow towards Shiffrin within the post-race rite within the end house.
Olympic champion Sara Hector of Sweden was once 3rd, 0.92 seconds in the back of Shiffrin.
Shiffrin additionally clinched the season-long Global Cup massive slalom identify to protected her fifteenth occupation crystal globe trophy. She already gained her 5th total Global Cup identify and the slalom identify this season.
Making extra Global Cup historical past on Friday, Shiffrin’s twentieth occupation victory within the massive slalom — six of them this season — matched the all time girls’s mark held via Vreni Schneider.
Schneider were given her wins between 1984 and 1992. The Swiss racer, like Shiffrin, additionally has Olympic and international championship gold medals in each massive slalom and slalom.
Shiffrin gained her first Global Cup race in Are, a slalom in December 2012, after which earned two gold medals on the 2019 worlds on the Swedish lodge. It was once additionally the place she was once because of race once more in March 2020 after the dying of her father the former month, however the races had been referred to as off on account of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’ve had a rather a couple of other stories right here,” Shiffrin stated after her first run on Friday. “I’ve felt the whole thing you’ll be able to really feel right here so it’s particular to be again.”
