After a three-month delay, American star Mikaela Shiffrin won her milestone 100th World Cup race on Sunday, a number never seen before in Alpine skiing.
Shiffrin has been the all-time leader in wins at the sport’s top level, men or women, for two years, and she looks far from done. At 29, Shiffrin now has three wins this season despite missing two months of competition after an injury suffered in a crash in November. She returned last month and, though still struggling with the mental and physical toll of the injury, has quickly found her way back to form in her best discipline, the slalom. She’s now won three of the four slalom events in which she’s competed this season. The only time she didn’t was in her first race back from the injury, in late January.
She won her first World Cup race at 17. She was an Olympic gold medalist at 18. And in her early 20s, she redefined what was possible in the sport over a three-year stretch that brought an astounding 40 World Cup victories — a total that by itself would be in seventh place on the women’s all-time wins list.
It’s tough to make sense of that unprecedented dominance. But here’s a look at it all, in six charts.
No nation has been kinder to Shiffrin than Austria, where she’s won 23 races, 13 more than her home…
