American Mikaela Shiffrin now sits alone atop the mountain of the greatest skiers of all time after her record-breaking 87th World Cup victory on Saturday. A day earlier, she had tied the longtime record for men and women held by Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark, who competed in the 1970s and 1980s.
Shiffrin has made 246 career World Cup starts. She set the record in a slalom event in Are, Sweden, where she captured her first World Cup victory in 2012. Saturday also marked 12 years to the day since her World Cup debut as a 15-year-old. Slalom is her strongest event and the discipline for 53 of her wins.
She had already locked up her fifth world championship and now has 13 World Cup wins this winter. Italy’s Sofia Goggia, with five, is the only other skier with more than two victories. Shiffrin holds the single-season record with 17 wins during the 2018-19 season. She will finish her year at next week’s World Cup Finals.
