American star Shiffrin Extends All-time best with Historic 105th World Cup Slalom Triumph.

The dominance of Mikaela Shiffrin goes beyond simple winning each slalom of the Winter Games season. She’s dominating each race and securing victories by significant gaps as well.

An Evening Marked by Record-Extending Performance

The American skiing standout earned a 105th record-broadening World Cup victory after a number of her top challengers failed to finish during the first run of a night race on Tuesday.

Shiffrin increased her first-run lead and concluded over one and a half seconds ahead of Swiss skier Camille Rast and 1.71 ahead of competitor from Germany Emma Aicher.

"The skier has triumphed in the first four slaloms of the season – and five consecutive including the last event of last season," noted analysts.

Commanding Leads of Success

All of her margins of victory this season have exceeded a full second – with a trio more than 1.5 seconds: a 1.66-second lead in Levi, Finland; 1.23 seconds in Gurgl, Austria; and 1.57 in Copper Mountain, Colorado before her most recent performance in the French Alps.

Challengers Face Difficulty

Competitors striving to match Shiffrin encountered trouble.

• Lena Duerr, the German skier who was in third place after the first run, went off course early in her second trip down.
• Lara Colturi, the Italian-born skier who represents Albania, missed a gate toward the end of her initial run – ending a streak of three consecutive slalom podiums.
• Wendy Holdener achieved a seventh-place finish even with a mishap at the end of her first run where she encountered a rut, was flipped into the air, and landed on her back.

Defending World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Ljutic and Olympic silver medalist Katharina Liensberger, the following two competitors, went out midway down the course.

This marks the third consecutive slalom that Ljutic has not completed.

Race Results

Katharina Truppe of Austria finished fourth and American skier Paula Moltzan climbed from ninth to fifth with the fastest second run of the race.

An Iconic Career of Accomplishments

This win represented Shiffrin's sixty-eighth World Cup slalom victory. Her Games accolades include gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and gold in giant slalom four years later at the Pyeongchang Games. She did not reach the podium at the 2022 Beijing Games.

The upcoming winter Olympics' women’s Alpine skiing events will be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy – a venue where Shiffrin won four medals in her four events at the 2021 world championships.