(Saalbach) The queen of skiing Mikaela Shiffrin ended her season in the best way on Saturday by winning the last slalom of the winter in Saalbach in Austria, her 97e victory in the World Cup.
Away from the circuit for a month and a half after a fall in Italy at the end of January, the American star, who returned to the slopes last week, scored his second victory in seven days between the stakes.
Second at the end of the first round, she had a good second round despite the poor light and soft snow to finally beat the Norwegian Mina Fuerst Holtmann (+54 hundredths) and the Swede Anna Swenn-Larsson (+63 hundredths) .
She thus signs her 97e World Cup success and his 60e in slalom, her favorite discipline in which she won the specialty globe for the eighth time.
It’s been an incredible season so I’m happy to win this last race and I’m already looking forward to next winter.
Mikaela Shiffrin
“I don’t want this season to end, I want to continue,” she added, having just returned after her heavy fall during the descent of Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy). ) at the end of January.
Not yet completely recovered even if she has won the two slaloms on the program since her resumption last week, the American has decided not to participate in the other events of the World Cup finals (giant, super-G, downhill ).
The five-time winner of the big crystal globe thus renounces a sixth coronation which was in her arms before her fall and which should go to Lara Gut-Behrami, provisionally at the top of the general classification before the last three races of the winter.
The 32-year-old Swiss, who does not participate in the slaloms, will start the giant on Sunday and can win her second big crystal globe, eight years after her first coronation, and her first giant globe.