{"id":2451490,"date":"2019-11-23T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/shiffrin-triumphs-for-record-41st-world-cup-slalom-win\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:16:00","slug":"mikaela-shiffrin-triumphs-in-finland-for-record-41st-world-cup-slalom-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/mikaela-shiffrin-triumphs-in-finland-for-record-41st-world-cup-slalom-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Shiffrin triumphs in Finland for record 41st World Cup slalom win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.7722152690864\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-316600-670\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"AP | AP | United States' Mikaela Shiffrin feeds a reindeer during the podium ceremony after winning an alpine ski, women's slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>United States&#8217; Mikaela Shiffrin feeds a reindeer during the podium ceremony after winning an alpine ski, women&#8217;s slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)<\/strong><br \/>AP | AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"United States' Mikaela Shiffrin feeds a reindeer during the podium ceremony after winning an alpine ski, women's slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-1-1024x726.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"AP | AP | United States' Mikaela Shiffrin competes during an alpine ski, women's slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>United States&#8217; Mikaela Shiffrin competes during an alpine ski, women&#8217;s slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)<\/strong><br \/>AP | AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-1-1024x726.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"United States' Mikaela Shiffrin competes during an alpine ski, women's slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-2-1024x679.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"AP | AP | Slovakia's Petra Vlhova competes during an alpine ski, women's slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Slovakia&#8217;s Petra Vlhova competes during an alpine ski, women&#8217;s slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)<\/strong><br \/>AP | AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-2-1024x679.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Slovakia's Petra Vlhova competes during an alpine ski, women's slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-3-1024x652.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"AP | AP | United States' Mikaela Shiffrin, winner of an alpine ski, women's slalom, celebrates with second-placed Switzerland's Wendy Holdener, left, and third-placed Austria's Katharina Truppe, in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"4\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"19\">\n<p><strong>United States&#8217; Mikaela Shiffrin, winner of an alpine ski, women&#8217;s slalom, celebrates with second-placed Switzerland&#8217;s Wendy Holdener, left, and third-placed Austria&#8217;s Katharina Truppe, in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)<\/strong><br \/>AP | AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/Finland_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_07917-cec1c-3-1024x652.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"United States' Mikaela Shiffrin, winner of an alpine ski, women's slalom, celebrates with second-placed Switzerland's Wendy Holdener, left, and third-placed Austria's Katharina Truppe, in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/shiffrin-triumphs-for-record-41st-world-cup-slalom-win\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/shiffrin-triumphs-for-record-41st-world-cup-slalom-win\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">LEVI, Finland \u2014 Coming off a record-breaking season with 17 race wins, Mikaela Shiffrin didn\u2019t need much time in the new campaign to reach yet another milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The American set the all-time World Cup record for most slalom wins by any skier on Saturday, after earning her 41st career victory in the discipline at the season-opening slalom race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Shiffrin beat the 32-year-old best mark from Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark, who won 40 slaloms between 1974 and 1987. Shiffrin amassed her total in just seven years, having won her first race in December 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cI don\u2019t feel super emotional, I am just happy,\u201d said Shiffrin, who usually refrains from focusing on records or statistics. \u201cI am happy with my skiing for the first (slalom) race of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Shiffrin, the 2014 Olympic and four-time world champion, has held the women\u2019s record since passing Marlies Raich\u2019s tally of 35 slalom wins a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">On Saturday, Shiffrin came from behind to defeat Petra Vlhova, runner-up to the three-time champion in the overall standings last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Vlhova, who won this race in 2017, led by 0.13 seconds after the opening run but skied out early in her final run and failed to finish, immediately after the American had posted the fastest run time by far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cI had a solid first run and in the second run I was really attacking and fighting,\u201d Shiffrin said. \u201cI may have been a little bit lucky but we have no idea how (Vlhova) was going to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Even with Vlhova skiing out, the duo looked set to continue dominating the discipline, as all 21 World Cup slaloms since January 2017 have been won by either Shiffrin (17) or Vlhova (4).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">On Saturday, Wendy Holdener finished runner-up but trailed Shiffrin by 1.78 seconds, a country mile in a sport mostly decided by hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The Swiss skier had been nursing an elbow injury in recent weeks but improved from sixth position after the opening run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cI still can\u2019t fully stretch the arm but you don\u2019t need that in slalom,\u201d Holdener said. \u201cI am just happy that I could start here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Katharina Truppe of Austria was 1.94 behind in third, while the rest of the field finished more than 2.4 seconds off the pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">In the opening run Shiffrin and Vlhova had already created a gap to the rest of the field of almost a full second, with Vlhova leading the American by 0.13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cIt was OK, I felt pretty solid with my skiing,\u201d Shiffrin said after the first run. \u201cI think there are some spots where I can be a little bit more relaxed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Vlhova was 0.32 behind Shiffrin at the second check point but found a smoother line going over a roll into the steep part of the Levi Black course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cI didn\u2019t do a great job on this one. It\u2019s pretty sharp. I think Petra did quite a good job there,\u201d Shiffrin said. \u201cI like to be in a position where I am kind of coming from behind and chasing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">New Zealand teenager Alice Robinson, who beat Shiffrin in the season-opening giant slalom in Austria last month, was sitting out the race with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">It was Shiffrin\u2019s fourth career triumph in the race in Finnish Lapland, where winners receive a reindeer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The win also gave Shiffrin an early lead in the overall standings, going into the World Cup weekend in Killington, Vermont, next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a really good start to the season. It\u2019s always great to be on the podium, in Soelden and then here,\u201d Shiffrin said. \u201cIt helps with the confidence in the next races to know my speed is there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The races in Killington include a GS on Saturday and a slalom the following day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/shiffrin-triumphs-for-record-41st-world-cup-slalom-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States&#8217; Mikaela Shiffrin feeds a reindeer during the podium ceremony after winning an alpine ski, women&#8217;s slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Trovati)AP | AP United States&#8217; Mikaela Shiffrin competes during an alpine ski, women&#8217;s slalom in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. 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