Mikaela Shiffrin Wins Gold at the World Championships

Her victory was some measure of vindication after a disappointing 2022 Olympics at which she failed to win a medal (after winning gold at the 2014 Games and gold and silver at the 2018 Games).

This was her first gold at the world championships in the giant slalom, having won four slalom, one super-G and one combined gold from 2013 to 2021. Nonetheless, she was the favorite, having won five of the eight World Cup giant slaloms this season coming into the worlds.

It was Shiffrin’s seventh gold medal and 13th overall medal at the world championships. She is tied for second in both categories behind Christl Cranz, a German skier from the 1930s who won 12 golds and 15 total medals.

Last month, Shiffrin, 27, broke her fellow American Lindsey Vonn’s record by winning her 83rd World Cup race. She now stands at 85, one short of the record for either gender, set by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden in the 1970s and ’80s.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/sports/skiing/mikaela-shiffrin-world-championships.html