Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup skiing record with 87th win

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin set the outright World Cup grounds for astir vocation victories with 87 by winning a slalom Saturday.

Shiffrin broke a necktie with Ingemar Stenmark connected the all-time wide winners list between men and women. The Swede competed successful the 1970s and 80s.

Shiffrin had matched Stenmark's people of 86 wins with triumph successful a elephantine slalom Friday.

"Pretty hard to comprehend," Shiffrin said astir the record.

After finishing the last run, the American crouched and rested her caput connected her knees. Her bother, Taylor Shiffrin, past came retired and hugged her during the winners ceremony.

"My member and sister-in-law are present and I didn't cognize they were coming, that makes this truthful special," Shiffrin said.

Saturday's effect marked the American's sixth slalom triumph of the play and the record-extending 53rd vocation triumph successful the discipline.

Shiffrin dominated the archetypal tally and posted the fifth-fastest clip successful the 2nd to bushed Swiss skier Wendy Holdener by 0.92 seconds.

Thrird-place location favourite Anna Swenn Larsson was the past racer to decorativeness wrong a 2nd of Shiffrin's time.

"The champion feeling is to skis connected the 2nd tally erstwhile of people you privation to win, you person a pb truthful you person to beryllium benignant of beryllium astute but also, I conscionable wanted to beryllium fast, too, and skis the 2nd tally similar its ain race," Shiffrin said.

"I did precisely that and that is amazing."

Shiffrin has already locked up her fifth wide championship and the discipline titles successful slalom and GS.

"It's bully to contention today. After specified an unthinkable time yesterday, I consciousness similar nary pressure," Shiffrin said aft the opening run.

The triumph gave Shiffrin the outright grounds 12 years to the time aft her archetypal contention connected the World Cup, arsenic a 15-year-old astatine a GS successful Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic.

Shiffrin is acceptable to vie successful 3 much races this play astatine adjacent week's World Cup Finals.

The contention took spot astatine a venue wherever galore cardinal moments successful Shiffrin's vocation happened. At the Swedish lakeside resort, she earned her archetypal World Cup triumph successful 2012 and took slalom golden astatine the 2019 satellite championships to go the archetypal skier to triumph the satellite rubric successful 1 subject 4 times successful a row.

However, Are was besides the spot wherever she sustained a genu wounded that kept her distant from the slopes for 2 months successful the 2015-16 season, and wherever she was owed to contention again successful March 2020 aft the decease of her begetter the erstwhile month, but those races were called disconnected due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic.