Mikaela Shiffrin is the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Skier of All Time)

Mikaela Shiffrin G.O.A.T. US Ski Team. Atomic Ski — Mikaela Shiffrin. Picture: Ski Paradise

Mikaela Shiffrin was born on March 13, 1995, in Vail, Colorado.

In February 2011 Shiffrin won the Slalom bronze medal at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships held at Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Mikaela Shiffrin made her debut in the World Cup on March 11, 2011, in Giant Slalom at Špindlerův Mlýn in the Czech Republic.

When she was only 16-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin, in her 8th World Cup start she made it onto the podium in Slalom in December 2011 in Lienz.

A year after she won her first World Cup race in Åre on December 2012 when she was only 17 years old.

Mikaela Shiffrin officially became the winningest alpine skier of all time in the 2022-2023 season.

Mikaela Shiffrin claimed her 99th Alpine Ski World Cup win in Gurgl on 23 November 2024.

On December 2012 when she was only 17-year-old, she won her first World Cup race in Åre — Mikaela Shiffrin. Åre 2012. Picture: GEPA Pictures / Atomic Ski

On March 11, 2023, in Åre Mikaela Shiffrin surpassed Ingemar Stenmark's record of 86 World Cup victories. The victory in Sweden, where she won her first World Cup race 11 years before, makes statistically, Mikaela Shiffrin the Greatest Skier of All Time.

Mikaela Shiffrin celebrated in November 2024 in Levi her 85th Slalom podium, 61st Slalom victory, and her 8th Slalom win in the Finish ski resort.

Last season, Shiffrin secured her eighth Slalom Crystal Globe by winning the Åre Slalom on March 10th tying her with Lindsey Vonn (Downhill) and Ingemar Stenmark (Slalom and Giant Slalom), who also hold eight discipline Globes.

In 2013 Shiffrin became the first U.S. Slalom Alpine ski World Cup champion since Tamara McKinney in 1983-1984.

Mikaela Shiffrin is an all-rounder who has won races in all disciplines. In December 2018, in Lake Louise, 23-year-old Shiffrin became the first skier ever to win in all six FIS World Cup disciplines: Slalom, Parallel Slalom, Combined, Giant Slalom, Super-G, and Downhill.

The 29-year-old US skier has a record of 62 Slalom, 22 Giant Slalom, 5 Super-G, 4 Downhill, 3 City Events, 2 Parallel Slalom, and 1 Alpine Combined.

She finished on the podium 154 times in 273 Alpine Ski World Cup starts. Only Ingemar Stenmark (155), has claimed more podiums in the World Cup than Mikaela Shiffrin.

Mikaela Shiffrin has won 62 Slalom World Cup events and 22 Giant Slalom events. In Levi in 2019, Mikaela surpassed Ingemar Stenmark's record of 40 slalom wins, making her the winningest Slalom skier of all time.

In Schladming in 2022, Mikaela Shiffrin won her 47th World Cup Slalom event, breaking the record for most World Cup victories in a single discipline set by Ingemar Stenmark (Giant Slalom, 46) in 1989.

She achieved her first Giant Slalom victory in 2014 at the season-opener in Sölden. On March 19, 2023, Mikaela won the Giant Slalom in Soldeu and broke Vreni Schneider’s record of 20 Giant Slalom victories.

On December 18, 2022, Mikaela Shiffrin won her last World Cup Super-G in St. Moritz. Since 2015, she has started in 29 Super-G events, finishing on the podium in 10 of them, including 5 wins. Of Shiffrin's ten podiums in the Super-G, five were achieved in St. Moritz.

Mikaela Shiffrin once again climbed to the top of the podium in Downhill in St. Moritz last December 9. Since 2016, Shiffrin has started in 21 Downhill events, finishing on the podium in 7 of them including 4 victories, the first one in Lake Louise in December 2017.

During the ATOMIC Media Day 2024 on 10th October in Salzburg, Mikaela Shiffrin confirmed that she will concentrate on three disciplines this season, Slalom, Giant Slalom, and Super-G, and will skip the Downhill.

Mikaela Shiffrin has won the Overall Crystal Globe five times: 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023. Only Marcel Hirscher (8), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (6) and Marc Girardelli (5) won the Overall World Cup at least five times. She goes past Lindsey Vonn as the American with the most Big Globes to her name.

Shiffrin finished the 2023-2024 winter season with 16 Crystal Globes (5 Overall, 8 in Slalom, 2 in Giant Slalom, and 1 in Super-G).

In the second-to-last Alpine Skiing event in Sochi 2014, Mikaela Shiffrin beat the Austrian duo of Marlies Schild and Kathrin Zettel. At 18 years and 345 days, Shiffrin became the youngest-ever woman to win an Alpine Skiing gold. Shiffrin ended the season as the reigning Olympic, World Cup, and World Champion in Slalom.

She became the youngest skier in history (male or female) to win an Olympic Slalom gold medal.

Mikaela Shiffrin picked up her second career gold medal on the Giant Slalom in Pyeongchang 2018. She also won a silver in the Alpine Combined.

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.

On the last day of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015 held in Vail-Beaver Creek, Colorado, 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.

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 Åre, Shiffrin grabbed her fourth-straight Slalom title. With this victory, she became the first skier 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.

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. After Cortina, she won World Championship medals in the Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super-G, and 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.

With seven golds in the Alpine World Ski Championships, the US skier is tied with Anja Pärson, Marielle Goitschel, Marcel Hirscher, and Toni Sailer.