Mikaela Shiffrin was set to equal Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark's record 86 World Cup Alpine skiing wins after leading the first leg of a women's slalom in the Czech resort of Spindleruv Mlyn on Sunday.
The 27-year-old American is in unstoppable form, winning a slalom on the same piste on Saturday after celebrating two giant slalom victories on Italian snow in Kronplatz on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The four times overall World Cup winner was 0.67 faster than Germany's Lena Duerr with Croatia's Zrinka Ljutic third and 0.85 off the pace. Shiffrin's 83rd win on Tuesday sent her clear of retired compatriot Lindsey Vonn as the female skier with the most World Cup wins. Stenmark won his 86 races in the 1970s and 1980s, with the first in a slalom at the Italian resort of Madonna di Campiglio in December 1974 and the final victory in a giant slalom at Aspen in 1989.Shiffrin has triumphed across the speed and technical disciplines with 52 wins in slalom, 19 in giant slalom, five super-G, three downhills, five in parallel and one in the combined."I'm just trying to focus about the simple things, thinking about the skiing ...
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