Mikaela Shiffrin was born on March 13, 1995, in Vail, Colorado.
On March 11, 2023, in Åre Mikaela Shiffrin surpassed Ingemar Stenmark's record of 86 World Cup victories. The win in Sweden, the place where she won her first World Cup race 11 years before, makes statistically, Mikaela Shiffrin the Greatest Skier of All Time.
Mikaela Shiffrin is an all-rounder who has won races in all disciplines in the World Cup. At the Alpine World Ski Championships, she has won gold medals in four disciplines: Slalom, Super-G, Alpine Combined, and Giant Slalom.
In 2013, at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships held in Austria at Planai in Schladming, Shiffrin became the third youngest woman to ever win a Slalom World Championship and the youngest American to win any title since 17-year-old Diann Roffe won gold in Giant Slalom in 1985. She’s also the first American to win a Championship or Olympic slalom since Barbara Cochran won at the 1972 Olympics and World Championships in Sapporo, Japan.
Saturday’s Slalom marked the last day of FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015 held in Vail-Beaver Creek, Colorado for the ladies and it couldn’t have been a sweeter ending for the American fans as Mikaela Shiffrin laid out a stunning performance and successfully defended her 2013 World Championships title.
Mikaela Shiffrin won the Slalom gold medal for the third straight time at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 held in St. Moritz, Switzerland after earning an astonishing 1.64-second lead ahead of Swiss sensation Wendy Holdener. Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter took home the bronze medal 0.11 seconds behind Holdener.
It was Shiffrin’s second medal of these championships. She won silver in the Giant Slalom. The American was the first female U.S. skier to land on the podium in Giant Slalom since Julia Mancuso earned a bronze medal in 2005.
Mikaela Shiffrin opened the 2019 Åre FIS Alpine World Ski Championships In Åre, Sweden, by claiming her first World Championship title of her career in super-G in a nailbiter race where gold was decided by only 0.02 seconds. Sofia Goggia of Italy, who only just returned to the competition circuit after sustaining an ankle fracture in the autumn, produced a miraculous run to finish as runner-up. And in the first top-level podium appearance of her career, Corinne Suter of Switzerland showed her recent top-six results on the World Cup tour were a stepping stone to the bronze medal.
In Åre, Shiffrin grabbed her fourth-straight slalom title. With this victory, she became the first athlete to win four successive World Championship titles in a single discipline. Shiffrin started the Championships with gold in the Super-G, picked up Giant Slalom bronze, and concluded again with gold.
She was the first skier –male or female–to win both the Super-G and Slalom world championships in the same year.
At the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Mikaela Shiffrin became the first skier – male or female – to win gold medals at five straight Worlds. At Courchevel-Meribel 2023, she extended that to six Worlds in a row. Shiffrin emerged in Cortina on top form, performing perhaps even better than expected and winning four medals including a gold medal in the Alpine Combined.
Mikaela Shiffrin won three medals at the 47th Alpine World Ski Championships in Méribel and Courchevel. A gold medal in Giant Slalom, and two silver medals in the Super-G and the Slalom. That makes a total of 14 world championship medals, just one behind all-time leader German Christel Cranz (15), in 17 starts: seven golds, four silvers, and three bronze medals.
Olympic Winter Games Starts: 11
Olympic Winter Games Medals: 3
Olympic Winter Games Victories: 2
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Starts: 17
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Podiums: 14
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Victories: 7
FIS World Cup Starts: 270
FIS World Cup Podiums: 152
FIS World Cup Victories: 97
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