Shiffrin breaks slalom victory record with 47th career win at World Cup in Austria

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jan 11, 2022 9:44 PM EST | Last Updated: January 12, 2022

Mikaela Shiffrin impressed with a come-from-behind triumph successful a nighttime contention Tuesday successful Schladming, Austria, to nonstop a beardown awesome to her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova successful the past women's World Cup slalom earlier the Beijing Olympics.

Racing connected the challenging Planai course, the American improved from 5th place, posting the fastest clip with an all-attacking tally to bushed first-run person Vlhova by 0.15 seconds.

Vlhova has been dominating women's slalom this season, winning 5 of the 7 races and locking up the play rubric with 2 races to spare.

But Shiffrin was backmost to her champion Tuesday, 2 days aft failing to decorativeness the erstwhile slalom.

The American cried and buried her look connected an advertisement banner successful the decorativeness country aft her starring clip inactive stood aft each 4 racers aft her had finished.

"Last clip I skied slalom successful Schladming was satellite champs, besides emotional," said the American, referring to the championships successful 2013, erstwhile she won her archetypal satellite rubric arsenic a 17-year-old.

Tuesday's triumph marked Shiffrin's 47th vocation slalom win, making her the archetypal skier successful World Cup past to triumph that galore races successful a azygous discipline. She antecedently shared the champion people with Swedish large Ingemar Stenmark, who won 46 elephantine slalom successful the 1970s and 80s.

"It's going to instrumentality a small portion to descend in. It's been galore years of enactment to get to that number. Tonight I conscionable privation to bask however I skied the 2nd run," Shiffrin said.

"It's conscionable rather peculiar to beryllium sitting present now. It feels similar it didn't happen," said Shiffrin, who stretched her pb successful the wide standings implicit Vlhova to 55 points.

Vlhova secures play rubric with 2 races remaining

Her triumph did not forestall Vlhova from securing the play rubric successful the discipline.

The Slovakian leads Shiffrin by 220 points with conscionable 2 much World Cup slaloms scheduled aft the Olympics.

"To triumph the globe successful the mediate of January, that's amazing," said Vlhova, who is the defending wide champion but has lone competed successful slaloms and elephantine slaloms truthful acold this season.

Vlhova won the slalom globe erstwhile before, successful 2020, aft Shiffrin had won it six times successful 7 years.

"Any clip you negociate to beryllium a small spot faster than Petra, that's an unthinkable job," Shiffrin said. "She is truthful strong, she is making nary mistakes. She is skiing slalom the mode it's meant to beryllium skied. It's truly peculiar to ticker that."

Other results

The rubric went to Katharina Liensberger past season. On Tuesday, the Austrian was 0.79 down successful eighth aft the archetypal tally and yet finished 21st aft astir skiing retired astatine the extremity of her 2nd run.

Germany's Lena Durr finished 0.93 down successful 3rd for her 3rd podium effect of the season.

Canada's Ali Nullmeyer and Switzerland's Wendy Holdener, who shared the 3rd spot aft the opening run, some failed to decorativeness their last runs.

Anna Swenn-Larsson, who finished 3rd successful a slalom successful Slovenia connected Sunday, was among the fastest starters successful the archetypal tally and led Vlhova by much than two-tenths of a 2nd astatine the archetypal divided earlier the Swede straddled a gate.

The Planai people is an yearly halt connected the men's circuit. The women past raced astatine the venue during the satellite championships successful 2013.

The contention was relocated from adjacent Flachau, which has been deed by a caller emergence successful coronavirus infections.