American star Shiffrin Extends Record with 105th World Cup Slalom Triumph.

The dominance of Mikaela Shiffrin goes beyond simple winning each slalom of the Winter Games season. She’s dominating each race and winning by large margins as well.

An Evening Marked by Record-Extending Performance

The American skiing standout secured a 105th record-broadening World Cup victory after a number of her primary challengers were eliminated during the first run of a night race on Tuesday.

Shiffrin added to her first-run lead and finished 1.55 seconds ahead of Swiss skier Camille Rast and 1.71 seconds ahead of German racer Emma Aicher.

"Shiffrin has now won the opening four slaloms of the season – and five consecutive including the final race of last season," noted analysts.

Commanding Leads of Success

All of her margins of victory this season have exceeded a full second – with three of them over 1.5 seconds: 1.66 in Levi, Finland; 1.23 in Gurgl, Austria; and 1.57 in Copper Mountain, Colorado before her most recent performance in the French Alps.

Challengers Encounter Struggles

Competitors striving to match Shiffrin encountered trouble.

• Lena Duerr, the German skier who was in third place after the first run, went off course early in her second run.
• Lara Colturi, the born in Italy skier who races for Albania, straddled a gate toward the end of her opening run – halting a streak of three consecutive slalom podiums.
• Wendy Holdener achieved a seventh-place finish even with a mishap at the end of her first run where she hit a hole, was flipped into the air, and landed on her back.

Reigning World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Ljutic and Olympic silver medalist Katharina Liensberger, the next two starters, went out midway down the course.

This marks the third consecutive slalom that Ljutic has failed to finish.

Final Standings

Katharina Truppe of Austria finished fourth and American skier Paula Moltzan climbed from ninth to fifth with the quickest second run of the race.

A Legacy of Accomplishments

This win represented Shiffrin's sixty-eighth World Cup slalom victory. Her Games accolades include gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the giant slalom gold four years later at the Pyeongchang Games. She didn’t medal at the 2022 Beijing Games.

The upcoming winter Olympics' women’s Alpine skiing events will be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy – a venue where Shiffrin won four medals in her four events at the 2021 world championships.