With 76 World Cup wins, four-time overall champion Mikaela Shiffrin is only behind Swedish skiing great Ingemar Stenmark (86) and Lindsey Vonn (82).
Shiffrin posted the fastest time in both runs on the way to her 49th slalom victory, just a day after winning another slalom in Finnish Lapland. No other skier has won more titles in a single competition than the 27-year-old Colorado native.She reached her 68th slalom podium, also a record in the women’s competition, one more than compatriot Lindsey Vonn in downhill races.
The American produced a near perfect second run to hold off the charging Wendy Holdener and beat the Swiss by 0.28 seconds. “I’m quite satisfied because two times the third place,” Vlhová said. “Of course, it could be a little bit better. We know that we have to improve, that we have to be faster so we will try to make it in the next race.”
Her sixth victory earned the American a sixth reindeer — a traditional prize the winner receives in Levi where Shiffrin also won in 2013, ’16, ’18 and ’19.Germany’s Dürr also matched her fourth-place finished on Saturday, 0.97 seconds behind Shiffrin with Olympic giant slalom champion Sara Hector of Sweden fifth, 1.42 second back.
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