{"id":2441519,"date":"2019-03-09T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/shiffrin-wins-record-15th-world-cup-race\/"},"modified":"2019-03-09T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T05:08:00","slug":"shiffrin-wins-record-15th-world-cup-race-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/shiffrin-wins-record-15th-world-cup-race-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiffrin wins record 15th World Cup race of season"},"content":{"rendered":"
Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener speeds down the course during an Alpine Skiing World Cup women’s Slalom, in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, Saturday, March. 9, 2019. (AP Photo\/Marco Tacca)<\/strong>
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SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic \u2014 Mikaela Shiffrin set yet another milestone on Saturday, clinching a record 15th World Cup victory of the season.<\/p>\n

Returning to the resort where she started her World Cup career at the age of 15 in 2011, Shiffrin dominated the last slalom before next week\u2019s finals.<\/p>\n

No other skier, male or female, has won more than 14 races in a single campaign in the 53-year history of the World Cup.<\/p>\n

The American will likely get three chances to further improve the best mark as she is expected to compete in Thursday\u2019s super-G and next weekend\u2019s slalom and giant slalom at the World Cup Finals in Andorra.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin had already wrapped up the World Cup slalom season title, her sixth in the last seven years, and her third straight overall championship.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s win was Shiffrin\u2019s 39th in slalom, leaving her one short of the 32-year-old World Cup record held by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark.<\/p>\n

A day after finishing third in a GS, Shiffrin went back to winning. She built on her first-run lead to beat Wendy Holdener by 0.85 seconds. It was Holdener\u2019s 21st career podium in the discipline but the Swiss skier has yet to win a race.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday (\u2026) I felt disappointment from the first (run),\u201d Shiffrin said. \u201cSo today I wanted to not protect something, like ski with risks, ski to fight, and see what was possible. It was really fun to ski, both runs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slovakia\u2019s Petra Vlhova, the only skier other than Shiffrin to win a women\u2019s World Cup slalom since January 2017, was more than two seconds behind in third.<\/p>\n

Katharina Truppe of Austria posted the fastest second-run time to climb from 16th to fourth.<\/p>\n

Olympic champion Frida Hansdotter, who was third after the opening run, dropped to seventh, trailing Shiffrin by 2.80 seconds. This week the Swede skier announced her retirement after the season.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin positioned herself for the record win by leading the opening run in tough conditions.<\/p>\n

In dense snowfall, Shiffrin was 0.37 seconds faster than Holdener, while the rest of the field was left with more than a second to make up in the decisive leg.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was OK,\u201d Shiffrin said about conditions in the opening run. \u201cFor sure it\u2019s pretty wet snow so if you make a mistake, it\u2019s pretty quick you slow down. You have to push really hard every gate and always go like forward, forward, forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catching a patch of soft snow immediately after finishing her opening run, Shiffrin lost balance and fell, calling it \u201ca little bit dangerous\u201d and prompting course workers to clear the fresh snow from the finish area.<\/p>\n

In the final run, Shiffrin struggled at the third gate and had her lead over Holdener reduced to 0.26, but she skied cleanly for the rest of her run, steadily extending her advantage again with every split time.<\/p>\n

It was the last women\u2019s race before the World Cup Finals, which start with the downhill on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener speeds down the course during an Alpine Skiing World Cup women’s Slalom, in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, Saturday, March. 9, 2019. (AP Photo\/Marco Tacca)AP | AP SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic \u2014 Mikaela Shiffrin set yet another milestone on Saturday, clinching a record 15th World Cup victory of the season. Returning to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 03:40:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}