WIS- Mikaela Shiffrin | U.S. SKIER

Let’s hear it for the Girls 💫 Celebrations 🎉 are underway as American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a record 83rd World Cup race Tuesday.

Shiffrin’s giant slalom victory broke a tie on the all-time women’s list with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn.

Mikaela Shiffrin is the former teen prodigy who in 2013 became the youngest American alpine skier ever to win a world championship. She went on to win gold medals at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics and become one of the most winningest skiiers in World Cup history.

Mikaela Shiffrin was born in Vail, Colorado; her father was a former college ski racer and her mother was a ski instructor. Mikaela was skiing “freshies down the family driveway at age three” according to her US Ski Team bio. The family moved to New Hampshire when she was 8, and she eventually enrolled at Vermont’s Burke Mountain Academy, graduating in 2013.

In the 2018 Olympics she struck again, winning the women’s giant slalom in Pyeongchang, South Korea. By that point, at age 22, she had already won 50 World Cup, national championship and Olympic competitions, mostly in slalom and giant slalom events.

Schiffrin won the women’s overall World Cup title for the 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022 seasons. In December of 2018, with a win in the super-G event at Lake Louise in Canada, Shiffrin became the first athlete, male or female, to have career wins in all six individual World Cup disciplines: downhill, slalom, giant slalom, parallel slalom, super-G, and alpine combined. She is now known after her recent win as “the winningest slalom skier of all time.”

Sources: Olympic.com & who2.com

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