Mikaela Shiffrin sets new World Cup alpine skiing record with 87th victory
CBC
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin now holds the record for most World Cup wins after racing to gold in the women's slalom event on Saturday in Are, Sweden.
It was the 87th career win for Shiffrin, who broke a tie with Ingemar Stenmark on the all-time overall winners list — between men and women. The Swede competed in the 1970s and 80s.
Shiffrin matched Stenmark's mark of 86 wins by winning a giant slalom Friday.
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.
Saturday's result marked the American's sixth slalom win of the season and the record-extending 53rd career win in the discipline.
Shiffrin is set to compete in three more races this season at next week's World Cup Finals. She has already locked up her fifth overall championship and the discipline titles in slalom and GS.
Canada's Laurence St-Germain – who won the slalom world title in France last month – finished fifth.
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