Mikaela Shiffrin wins her record 47th World Cup slalom ahead of Beijing Olympics

Mikaela Shiffrin received the final girls’s World Cup slalom earlier than the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, whereas her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova locked up the season title within the self-discipline. Racing on the difficult Planai course, the American improved from fifth place, posting the quickest time with an all-attacking run to beat first-run chief Vlhova by 0.15 seconds.

Germany’s Lena Dürr completed 0.93 behind in third.

It was Shiffrin’s 47th career slalom win, making her the primary skier in World Cup historical past to win that many races in a single self-discipline. She beforehand shared one of the best mark with Swedish nice Ingemar Stenmark, who received 46 big slalom within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s.

“It is simply fairly particular to be sitting right here now. It feels prefer it did not occur,” stated Shiffrin, who stretched her lead within the total standings over Vlhova to 55 factors.

Shiffrin, who tested positive for COVID-19 final month, additionally posted tributes to her staff and her mom on Twitter, thanking her mother for her “power, love, assist and perception in me.”

Her win didn’t stop Vlhova from securing the season title within the self-discipline.

The Slovakian, who has received 5 of this season’s seven slaloms, leads Shiffrin by 220 factors with simply two extra World Cup slaloms scheduled after the Olympics.

Vlhova received the slalom globe as soon as earlier than, in 2020, after Shiffrin had received it six occasions in seven years.

The title went to Katharina Liensberger final season. On Tuesday, the Austrian was 0.79 behind in eighth after the primary run and finally completed twenty first after almost snowboarding out on the finish of her second run.

Shiffrin’s teammate Paula Moltzan was in sixth place after the opening run however straddled a gate in her second. The American has been snowboarding with the pole taped to her glove since fracturing her left wrist.

Canada’s Ali Nullmeyer and Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener, who shared the third spot after the opening run, each failed to complete their ultimate runs.

Anna Swenn-Larsson, who completed third in a slalom in Slovenia on Sunday, was among the many quickest starters within the first run and led Vlhova by greater than two-tenths of a second on the first break up earlier than the Swede straddled a gate.

The Planai course is an annual cease on the boys’s circuit. The ladies final raced on the venue throughout the world championships in 2013.

The race was relocated from close by Flachau, which has been hit by a latest rise in coronavirus infections.

Shiffrin, who received gold within the slalom on the 2014 Sochi Olympics and received gold within the big slalom on the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, is anticipated to be a high contender on this 12 months’s Beijing Olympics, which is ready for February 4.