Mikaela Shiffrin Broadens All-time best with Historic 105th World Cup Slalom Win.

The dominance of Mikaela Shiffrin goes beyond simple winning every slalom of the Olympic season. She’s dominating each race and finishing with considerable leads as well.

An Evening Marked by Record-Extending Performance

The US ski sensation earned a 105th record-broadening World Cup victory after several of her top challengers failed to finish during the first run of a night race on Tuesday.

Shiffrin added to her first-run lead and finished 1.55 seconds ahead of Swiss skier Camille Rast and 1.71 ahead of competitor from Germany Emma Aicher.

"She has currently secured the first four slaloms of the season – and five consecutive including the final race of last season," noted analysts.

Overwhelming Margins of Success

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

Rivals Encounter Struggles

Opponents attempting to reach Shiffrin encountered trouble.

• Lena Duerr, the German skier who was in third place after the first run, skied off the track early in her second trip down.
• Lara Colturi, the Italian-born skier who races for Albania, straddled a gate toward the end of her initial run – halting a streak of three consecutive slalom podiums.
• Wendy Holdener managed a seventh-place finish even with a mishap at the end of her first run where she hit a hole, was flipped into the air, and landed on her back.

Defending World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Ljutic and Olympic silver medalist Katharina Liensberger, the next two starters, were disqualified midway down the course.

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

Race Results

Katharina Truppe of Austria placed fourth and American skier Paula Moltzan moved up from ninth to fifth with the quickest second run of the race.

An Iconic Career of Achievements

This win represented Shiffrin's sixty-eighth World Cup slalom victory. Her Olympic accolades include gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the giant slalom gold four years later at the Pyeongchang Games. She didn’t medal 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.