The American star won the giant slalom in Are, Sweden, on Friday. A victory that allows him to equal the absolute record of 86 victories in the World Cup of Swede Ingemar Stenmark.
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In less than two months, and after the more or less successful Worlds of Courchevel-Méribel (1 title and 1 silver medal), Mikaela Shiffrin will have equaled the two most important records in the history of alpine skiing. After her compatriot Lindsey Vonn’s 82 World Cup successes, the American reached the all-time record of 86 World Cup victories.Ingemar Stenmark, Friday, March 10, by winning the giant slalom in Are (Sweden). Mathematically assured of winning her fifth crystal globe, Mikaela Shiffrin inks her legend a little more.
Stenmark’s 86 victories are part of winter sports legend and have long seemed untouchable. In the same way as the 2857 career points of hockey player Wayne Gretzky or the eight Olympic gold medals of Marit Bjorgen in cross-country skiing. Other ski legends, and not the least (Hirscher, Maier, and Tomba for the men then Vonn, Moser-Pröll, and Schneider for the women), had broken their spatulas on the Swede’s record. Not Mikaela Shiffrin.
The milestone of 100 victories in sight
The skier from Vail (Colorado), who had not been on the podium since the Worlds in France, signed her 12th victory of the season in Sweden, well ahead of her rivals Federica Brignone (+0”64) and Sara Hector (+0”92), allowing him at the same time to win a new specialty globe. At only 27 years old, Mikaela Shiffrin should quickly exceed Ingemar Stenmark’s record, established between 1974 and 1989.
Aged 32 at the time of the events, the legendary Swede only shone in slalom (40 victories) and giant (46), when his American counterpart has also won success in super-G (5), downhill (3) and even combined (1). What to imagine that one day, the double Olympic champion 2014 and 2018 then seven times world champion will reach the mythical bar of 100 victories.
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