Despite snapped slalom streak, Mikaela Shiffrin leaves 2021 Worlds with career-best haul

Mikaela Shiffrin entered the 2021 World Alpine Snowboarding Championships because the four-time defending champion within the girls’s slalom.

In Cortina, that streak ended as Shiffrin completed third. Austria’s Katharina Liensberger completed first, whereas Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova positioned second.

Shiffrin, who entered the second run in fourth place and 1.3 seconds behind Liensberger, stated after the race: “I’m undecided it will have made a distinction within the medal shade, however I want my first run had proven higher snowboarding.”

Regardless of the snapped slalom streak, Shiffrin leaves Cortina with a career-best world championship haul: 4 medals (gold within the mixed, silver within the big slalom, and bronze within the super-G and slalom).

Additionally in Cortina, Shiffrin grew to become essentially the most adorned U.S. alpine skier in world championship historical past, taking the lead for many profession world titles gained by an American (6) and most world medals gained by an American (11).

“It’s been a fairly unimaginable couple of weeks,” Shiffrin mirrored. “I by no means imagined that I may win 4 medals in a single world championships.”

[READ MORE: 2021 World Championships: Mikaela Shiffrin claims giant slalom silver, Gut-Behrami wins]

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