Mikaela Shiffrin wins record-tying 6th World Cup skiing title

HAFJELL, Norway — Mikaela Shiffrin secured a record-tying sixth girls’s total World Cup skiing title by holding off a problem from rising German rival Emma Aicher within the remaining race of the season Wednesday.

Shiffrin wanted solely to complete within the high 15 of a large slalom and the American standout secured that earlier than Aicher even started her second run.

Shiffrin, 31, matched Austrian downhill nice Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who received her six titles within the Nineteen Seventies.

Moser-Pröll received 5 straight titles from 1971-75 then a sixth in 1979. Shiffrin received three straight from 2017-19, then back-to-back titles in 2022 and ’23.

Lindsey Vonn is third on the ladies’s checklist with 4 total titles.

Marcel Hirscher leads the boys’s checklist with eight total titles.

It’s been one other stellar season for Shiffrin, who claimed the third Olympic gold of her profession by dominating the slalom on the Milan Cortina Games.

Shiffrin additionally received 9 of the ten World Cup slaloms this season and has a report 110 victories throughout all disciplines – by far essentially the most within the World Cup by any man or lady. Ingemar Stenmark is subsequent greatest with 86 wins within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s.