‘Ski Queen’ Shiffrin becomes the first in Alpine World Cup history to win 90 times

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‘Ski Queen’ Mikayla Shiffrin (28, USA) achieved 90 wins for the first time in the history of the International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine World Cup.

Shiffrin won the 2023-2024 season FIS Alpine World Cup women's slalom event held in Killington, Vermont, USA on the 27th (Korean time) with a total time of 1 minute and 42.02 seconds in the first and second periods.

Shiffrin, who earned her first win of the season on the 12th in Levi, Finland, recorded her second win of the season, giving her 90th career World Cup win.

Shiffrin is the first person to achieve 90 wins in the Alpine World Cup for both men and women.

Among active players, second place is Lara Gut Behrami (Switzerland) with 39 wins, and Shiffrin's 90 wins is an overwhelming record.

Shiffrin surpassed Inge Marstenmark's (retired, Sweden) record of 86 wins, which was the record for most wins across men and women in March of this year, and reached 90 wins for the first time in her history.

The second place with the most wins in the women's Alpine World Cup is Lindsey Vonn (retired, USA) with 82 wins.

Shiffrin, who took part in the World Cup for the first time in 2011 when she was 16 years old, has achieved 90 wins in a total of 354 World Cup races. More than half of her 90 wins, 55 of them, came in the slalom. Shiffrin is also the only person to have 50 wins in a single event.

Shiffrin, who won 14 games in the 2022-2023 season, may achieve 100 wins within this season.

In this day's race, Petra Vlova (Slovakia) took second place, recording a time of 1 minute 42.35 seconds.

“It’s amazing to get 90 wins,” said Shiffrin, who is originally from Colorado, USA and trained at Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont during her youth. “It’s even more special to achieve it in front of her home fans,” she said.

Shiffrin, who finished 5th in the slalom and 13th in the giant slalom at the competition held on the same course last year, also said, “Because of my disappointing performance in this competition last year, I had more doubts about myself than confidence, but it actually motivated me.” .

Shiffrin is ranked first in the overall rankings of this season's Alpine World Cup. 19가이드03

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