Can Mikaela Shiffrin win three at worlds? It’s hard to do for many reasons

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France’s Jean Claude Killy waves after successful the boys’s downhill in the course of the Winter Olympics on Feb. 9, 1968. At his aspect are J. Daniel Daetwyler of Switzerland who got here in third, and Man Perillat of France who completed second. Killy is just one of three males to win three contested races at world championships together with Toni Salier and Ted Ligety. (AP File Photograph)

So, you wish to win three gold medals on the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships? Simpler stated than achieved, even for an unbelievable racer like Mikaela Shiffrin.

It’s solely been achieved 14 instances by 12 folks — Germany’s Christl Cranz (1936 and 1939) and Austrian Toni Salier (1956 and 1958) have achieved it twice in the course of the 47 world championships courting again to 1931, which incorporates the Winter Olympics in the course of the Nineteen Thirties and from 1948-1980.

Some guidelines

• Worlds had been held yearly from their inception in 1931-1939, as a standalone competitors or the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid in New York or Garmisch, Germany, in 1936

That’s how Cranz holds the document for many golds (12) at world championships and most medals received (15) and possibly will for the remainder of time. Cranz holds an essential place within the historical past of ski racing, nonetheless, if fashionable racers obtained a yearly crack at worlds, their numbers could be a bit increased.

Annual worlds additionally helped Cranz get the golden triple twice.

Germany’s Christl Cranz advantages from worlds being held yearly in racking up a document of 12 golds and 15 medals received. (Display seize)

• Solely from 1982onward did racers truly contest the mixed. From 1931-1980, the mixed was a paper race. Be it worlds or the Olympics, organizers historically added the instances from the downhill and the slalom races and the boys or ladies with the bottom instances obtained medals.

Had been we nonetheless working below these guidelines, Shiffrin would have wanted to run in Saturday’s downhill, which she didn’t, after which the slalom on Saturday, as deliberate. We’re not saying we wouldn’t have favored her probabilities in an outdated paper mixed — her bronze-medal super-G run on Thursday confirmed she in all probability might have been tremendous within the downhill Saturday — however it’s simpler to get to a few golds through math than precise competitors.

That’s a full medal jacket. Sweden’s Anja Paerson conquers the 2007 world championships with three gold medals on residence snow in Are. (AP File Photograph/Luca Bruno)

• There are extra disciplines now. Large slalom didn’t grow to be an occasion till 1950. The one option to win three at worlds earlier than that was to win downhill and slalom and wait for somebody so as to add up the instances for the mixed.

Tremendous-G doesn’t be a part of the schedule till 1987 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, the place the Swiss simply slobber-knock everybody with eight out of a doable 10 gold medals, together with Pirmin Zurbriggen and Maria Walliser successful the new-fangled self-discipline for the hosts.

Think about the legends like Franz Klammer or Gustav Thoeni in the course of the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies who in all probability might have added to their worlds medal depend with the super-G as an official occasion. Thoeni received two golds at on the Olympics in 1972 (GS and slalom) and two extra at worlds in 1974 (mixed and slalom). It’s very possible {that a} hypothetical super-G would have been No. 3.

And who’s to say that Toni Salier and Jean Claude Killy wouldn’t have added to their triple/quadruple golds with a super-G race? (We wouldn’t have guess towards both in 1956, 1958 or 1968.)

And FIS has added the workforce occasion and males’s and ladies’s parallel competitions which can make triple golds simpler sooner or later.

The cream of the cream

If one negates the outcomes from holding worlds yearly within the Nineteen Thirties which provides a bonus to racers like Cranz, and do away with the paper mixed races, solely six racers have received three golds at worlds.

The 2 commonest names talked about on this class are the immortals of ski racing — Salier (1956 in Cortina, Italy, this yr’s worlds web site) and Killy (1968). Not solely did they win three precise races — donwhill, GS and slalom — however in addition they took the paper combi for a fourth gold.

The one different male to do the triple is Ted Ligety, which is among the many causes we want him effectively in retirement.

The women are Switzerland’s Erika Hess in 1982, the primary yr of an actual mixed race at worlds, Croatia’s Janica Kostelic (2005) and Sweden’s Anja Paerson.

Taking nothing away from the tremendous six who’ve achieved this, however this listing is notable as effectively for the folks not on it. On the American entrance, Bode Miller (33 World Cup wins), Lindsey Vonn (82) and Mikaela Shiffrin (68) haven’t achieved it.

As nice as he was and he was one of the best with 86 profession World Cup wins, Ingemar Stenmark by no means received three gold medals on the world championships. (AP File Photograph)

Ingemar Stenmark (86 World Cup wins, the document) by no means did the triple. Nor did Marcel Hirscher (67 wins), Hermann Maier (54) Alberto Tomba (50) and Marc Girardelli (46). These are the highest 5 male winners on the World Cup tour. (Salier raced earlier than the World Cup existed and Killy retired simply when it was based.)

Solely three of the 20 winningest racers on the World Cup have received three golds at worlds, Anja Paerson, Hanni Wenzel and Erika Hess. (Display seize)

It’s that onerous to be your finest for per week or two each two years.

Three (or extra) golds at worlds

Ladies

1933: Inge Weson-Lantschner, Austria, Innsbruck, Austria, DH, SL, Ok (a,b,c).

1936: Christl, Cranz, Germany, 1936, Garmisch, Germany, DH, SL, Ok (a,b,c).

1939: Christl Cranz, Germany 1939, Zakopane, Poland, DH, SL, Ok. (a,b,c).

1966: Marielle Goitschel, France, Portillo, Chile, DH, GS, Ok (c).

1980: Hanni Wenzel, West Germany, Lake Placid, New York, SL, GS, Ok (b,c).

1982: Erika Hess, Switzerland, Schldaming, Austria, SL, GS, Ok.

2005: Janica Kostelic, Croatia, Bormio, Italy, SL, DH, Ok.

2007: Anja Paerson, Sweden, 2007, Sweden, DH, SG, Ok.

Males

1937: Emile Allais, France, Chamonix, France, DH, SL, Ok (a,c).

1954: Stein Eriksen, Norway, Are, Sweden, SL, GS, Ok.

1956: (4 golds) Toni Salier, Austria, 1956, Cortina, Italy, DH, GS, SL, Ok (b,c)

1958: Toni Salier, Austria, Dangerous Gastein, Austria, DH, SL, Ok.

1968: (4 golds) Jean-Claude Killy, France, Grenoble, France, DH, GS, SL, Ok (b,c).

2013: Ted Ligety, USA, Schladming, Austria, 2013, SG, GS, Ok.

a – Worlds held yearly within the Nineteen Thirties.

b – The Winter Olympics in 1932, 1936 and after World Conflict II via 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, doubled as worlds.

c – The mixed at worlds was a paper race till 1982, that means that organizers simply added collectively the downhill and slalom instances already contested after which awarded medals.