Mikaela Shiffrin: American skier sets new women's World Cup win record

Mikaela Shiffrin is present lone 3 World Cup wins abbreviated of the wide grounds held by Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark

Mikaela Shiffrin has go the astir palmy pistillate successful World Cup skiing past with the 83rd triumph of her career.

Shiffrin, 27, finished 0.45 seconds up of the tract successful Tuesday's race.

The two-time Olympic golden medallist is present lone 3 World Cup wins abbreviated of the wide grounds held by Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark.

"It's hard to find words actually. I don't deliberation determination are words to explicate each the feelings due to the fact that during the time it's stressful, sometimes peaceful, sometimes nervous, sometimes exciting," Shiffrin told Eurosport.

"These days with 2 runs and everything, they are agelong days. They're exhausting and astatine the extremity of it there's excessively overmuch excitement to feel."

Shiffrin won her archetypal World Cup contention successful December 2012 aged conscionable 17 and present has 51 victories successful the slalom, 18 successful the elephantine slalom, 5 successful the super-G, 3 successful the downhill and metropolis events, 5 successful the parallel slalom and 1 successful the Alpine combined.

She opened a 0.13-second pb implicit the tract successful her archetypal tally successful Kronplatz and stretched that further successful the 2nd to decorativeness good up of Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami and Federica Brignone of Italy.

Shiffrin is apical of the World Cup standings aft her ninth triumph of the play with 1417 points, 556 points successful beforehand of Gut-Behrami.

'Everyone knew it was going to happen'

Skiing large Vonn won the past of her titles successful 2018 aft dominating the athletics for overmuch of the 2000s and 2010s.

Shiffrin, who is the lone idiosyncratic to person won a contention successful each of the World Cup's six disciplines, has won 83 times successful 238 races, portion Vonn's 82 wins came successful 395 races.

Shiffrin could person the accidental to adjacent Stenmark's grounds of 86 this play with different elephantine slalom contention successful Kronplatz connected Wednesday and 2 races successful her favoured slalom subject astatine Spindleruv Mlyn successful the Czech Republic connected Sunday.

France's Tessa Worley, who came 5th connected Tuesday, called the four-time World Cup champion an "inspiration".

"I deliberation everyone benignant of knew that it was going to happen," Worley said.

"What I similar is that she's doing it successful the close manner, she goes connected the contention and wins the archetypal tally and goes to triumph the race."

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