Mikaela Shiffrin led Paula Moltzan for an American 1-2 end in an evening slalom Thursday to transform the primary ski racer with 50 World Cup wins in one self-discipline.
No different skier, feminine or male, has gained an match greater than 46 occasions within the 56-year World Cup historical past.
The consequence additionally marked Shiffrin’s eightieth World Cup win total – two wanting Lindsey Vonn’s girls’s report.
Building on a large first-run lead of greater than seven-tenths of a 2d, Shiffrin overcame a number of errors in her ultimate run at the deteriorating route to complete 0.29 forward of Moltzan, who had her first occupation podium within the self-discipline.
It was once the primary time since 1971 that the United States ski group went 1-2 in a girls’s World Cup slalom.
“Paula had a ripping run, I saw that from the start. I thought she might win this race. It’s so special to share a podium with her,” Shiffrin mentioned. “I don’t have much to say about 80, I don’t know what to say.”
Germany’s Lena Dürr was once 0.34 in the back of in 3rd, adopted through Shiffrin’s greatest opponents in slalom, Petra Vlhova and Wendy Holdener, who have been the one different racers inside of a 2d of the profitable time.
Shiffrin can fit her former teammate Vonn’s fulfillment of 82 World Cup wins subsequent week, when two slaloms are scheduled in Zagreb, Croatia.
Only Swedish nice Ingemar Stenmark gained extra races than Vonn and Shiffrin, with 86.
Shiffrin has gained six races this season, together with the final 4: final week’s super-G in St Moritz and two large slaloms over the past two days.
Adding to its standard agenda of a GS and a slalom, Semmering this time hosted a large slalom that was once canceled in some other Austrian hotel, Sölden, in October.
Shiffrin additionally gained all 3 occasions the former time the hotel close to the capital Vienna staged races on 3 consecutive days, in December 2016.
Shiffrin prolonged the whole report for many wins in one self-discipline to 50 in slalom on Thursday.
She laid the basis for her triumph within the opening run, the place she was once greater than seven-tenths of a 2d sooner than her closest challenger, Anna Swenn Larsson. The Swede struggled in her 2d run and dropped to shared 6th place with Croatian prodigy Zrinka Ljutic.
“I felt truly just right. I used to be firing, in order that was once an excessively, superb run and, to be truthful, it was once only a excitement to ski,” Shiffrin mentioned after the hole run.