2021 HomeLight Killington Cup athlete profiles

Mikaela Shiffrin, a New Hampshire native and Burke Mountain Academy graduate, made her World Cup debut on March 11, 2011, racing Big Slalom within the Czech Republic. That April, only a few weeks after her sixteenth birthday, she gained the Slalom title on the U.S. Nationwide Championships at Winter Park, Colorado, and have become the youngest American ski racer to say a nationwide Alpine crown.

Since then, Shiffrin has continued so as to add medals and data to her title.

She’s gained 11 World Cup Season titles (3 general, 6 Slalom, 1 Tremendous-G, 1 Big Slalom); six World Championship titles (4 Slalom, 1 Tremendous G, 1 Alpine Mixed); and three Olympic medals (gold in Slalom, gold in Big Slalom and silver in Alpine Mixed).

She present holds the data for:

• The youngest Slalom champion in Olympic Alpine snowboarding historical past, at 18.
• Tied for essentially the most Olympic gold medals ever gained by an American in Alpine snowboarding.
• Essentially the most adorned American Alpine skier within the historical past of the World Championships, (profitable 4 medals final February she now has six gold and 9 complete medals).
• The one Alpine skier with wins in all six FIS Alpine Ski World Cup disciplines.
• The youngest skier to win 50 World Cup races, on the age of 23.
• Essentially the most World Cup Slalom victories of all Alpine skiers (45), and the second most all-time World Cup victories by feminine skiers (70, behind Lindsey Vonn with 82).
• The one athlete to have gained 15 races in the identical calendar 12 months (2018 season), a file she improved within the 2019 season, profitable 17 World Cup races in a single season.

On the HomeLight Killington Cup Shiffrin has been flawless within the Slalom occasion, profitable the race every of the previous 4 occasions. 

However she has but to high the rostrum in Big Slalom at Killington: In 2016 she took fifth, in 2017 she received on the rostrum with a second place end, in 2018 she positioned fourth, and in 2019 she once more podiumed with a 3rd place end. Maybe 2021 might be her 12 months to win each occasions?!

One thing you might not find out about Shiffrin is that she has a small herd of reindeer — the annual prize for the Levi World Cup victor! Their names are Rudolph (2013), Sven (2016), Mr. Gru (2018), and Ingemar (2019), in accordance with usskiandsnowboard.org.