{"id":2441806,"date":"2019-03-16T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/shiffrin-pinturault-get-wins-for-record-book\/"},"modified":"2019-03-16T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T04:40:00","slug":"shiffrin-pinturault-get-wins-for-record-book-at-world-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/shiffrin-pinturault-get-wins-for-record-book-at-world-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiffrin, Pinturault get wins for record book at World Cup finals"},"content":{"rendered":"
United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin holds the women’s World Cup slalom discipline trophy at the alpine ski, World Cup finals in Soldeu, Andorra, Saturday, March 16, 2019. (AP Photo\/Gabriele Facciotti)<\/strong>
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SOLDEU, Andorra \u2014 Citius, altius, 40th.<\/p>\n

Embodying the Olympic motto in a World Cup slalom Saturday, Mikaela Shiffrin went faster in her second slalom run and higher in the World Cup all-time lists by being stronger than Wendy Holdener to win an intense duel.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin\u2019s 40th career victory in World Cup slaloms tied her with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark\u2019s record for wins in the discipline.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a really amazing day to be racing,\u201d Shiffrin said in the sun-bathed finish area in Andorra, one hour after Alexis Pinturault also set a record winning the final men\u2019s giant slalom of the season.<\/p>\n

Pinturault became the most prolific French skier on the 52-year World Cup circuit with his 23rd career victory.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin had trailed 0.28 seconds behind first-run leader Holdener and won by just 0.07 after both racers visibly pushed their limits slicing through the gates.<\/p>\n

Holdener\u2019s unlucky defeat extended her own unwanted World Cup record with a 22nd career podium finish in slalom without a victory.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the most top-three placings in a single discipline without winning for any man or woman in World Cup history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can see the frustration in her eyes,\u201d Shiffrin said. \u201cI have a lot of respect for Wendy. She is so strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shiffrin, the 2014 Sochi Olympics gold medalist, earned 100 race points to lift her season-long total in the slalom standings to a remarkable 1,160 \u2014 more than every woman skier\u2019s total over all disciplines, except for overall standings runner-up Petra Vlhova.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin\u2019s mammoth 2,104 points overall \u2014 the second-highest total ever \u2014 is more than 800 ahead of Vlhova. Holdener is third.<\/p>\n

Vlhova placed third Saturday but trailed more than a second behind the standout leading pair.<\/p>\n

Frida Hansdotter, the 2018 Olympic slalom champion competing in her final World Cup race, placed fifth, 1.89 behind Shiffrin.<\/p>\n

Pinturault retained his first-run lead to finish 0.44 seconds ahead of Swiss prospect Marco Odermatt, who earned a career-best result.<\/p>\n

Zan Kranjec was third, trailing 1.03 behind Pinturault, who broke a tie with Carole Merle for the all-time record by a French racer. Merle got her 22 wins in giant slalom and super-G from 1988-93. Alpine great Jean-Claude Killy won 18 times.<\/p>\n

Marcel Hirscher placed sixth, 1.74 back, having already clinched his fifth straight title in the season-long giant slalom standings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really cool to have this globe,\u201d Hirscher said, holding the crystal trophy he also won in 2012. \u201cIt\u2019s surreal to have it for six years now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Austrian star has also secured a record eighth straight overall World Cup title, though had his lead cut to 415 points by Pinturault ahead of the season-ending slalom on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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