The ski season is far from over, but with a fifth place on the 1994 Olympic downhill run, Mikaela Shiffrin made it her fifth overall World Cup. In the next season she will attack a new record, but she still has a very big goal in 2023.
Ski superstar Mikaela Shiffrin has won the overall women’s World Cup. Fifth place in the Kvitfjell downhill was enough for the American to secure the big crystal globe two weeks before the end of the season. With seven missing World Cups, the 27-year-old can no longer be caught.
The two-time Olympic champion has won eleven titles so far this season, five each in slalom and giant slalom and one in super-G. “The overall World Cup was my goal for the season. I was so focused on it that I never wanted to bring it up in interviews. I’m just happy,” said the exceptional athlete. Thus, the American wins the big crystal globe for victory in the overall World Cup for the fifth time. Only the Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell has won more often (6).
Local hero Kajsa Vickhoff Lie took victory in the penultimate descent of the winter and celebrated her first World Cup success ever. Second went to Sofia Goggia of Italy, who secured her fourth downhill overall victory in her career. Goggia missed her sixth title of the season in the supreme discipline by 29 hundredths of a second. Third was Corinne Suter from Switzerland.
Germany’s best speed driver Kira Weidle made a big mistake in the Norwegian mountains. After a good 20 seconds of driving and directly before a flat section, the 26-year-old got stuck on a gate pole, shortly afterwards she swung away with pain in her right arm and a large deficit. Her racing suit showed clear marks on her forearm and right knee from the hard contact with the gate poles.
Emma Aicher from SC Mahlstetten finished 23rd in the points, Katrin Hirtl-Stanggassinger (36th) disappointed. On Sunday there is another Super-G for the women in Kvitfjell. Then Shiffrin could celebrate her 86th World Cup victory and draw level with Swedish ski legend Ingemar Stenmark.