Shiffrin, 27, led Gut-Behrami by 0.13 seconds after Tuesday’s first run, then prolonged her lead on her second journey.
“It might take me a little bit to figure out what to say,” Shiffrin mentioned simply afterward, in keeping with the Associated Press. “I don’t know what to say right now.”
Now, she is going to instantly have an opportunity to extend her complete. Another large slalom is scheduled for Wednesday in Kronplatz, and there are two slalom races this weekend within the Czech Republic. Though she has amassed her complete by profitable throughout all of Alpine skiing’s disciplines, Tuesday was Shiffrin’s 18th victory in large slalom, and he or she has a record 51 wins in slalom.
The subsequent benchmark for Shiffrin? The 86 World Cup victories of Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark, who holds the record for many wins by a skier of any gender. With seven extra technical races — slaloms and large slaloms, Shiffrin’s energy — on the schedule, it’s conceivable she would threaten the record this season. She has gained eight of the 14 World Cup slaloms and large slaloms contested so far in 2022-23.
But there’s additionally the matter, if and when she passes Stenmark, of how far she will push the brand new mark. Stenmark himself mentioned in a recent interview on Olympics.com that she “will win more than 100 races.” Vonn gained her 82 races in 395 begins throughout 14 seasons, lots of which had been shortened by a wide range of accidents. She retired in 2019 at age 34, her physique too beat as much as proceed. Stenmark’s 86 victories got here in what the International Ski Federation says had been 230 begins within the Seventies and Eighties, although record-keeping wasn’t as exact in that period. Stenmark gained his final race 15 years after his first, and he retired in 1989 simply earlier than he turned 33.
Shiffrin turns 28 in March, and he or she is certainly nearer to the tip of her profession than the start. But her 83rd win got here in her 238th begin, and since she made her World Cup debut simply earlier than she turned 16, she is already in her thirteenth season. She has piled up victories at the next fee than both Stenmark and Vonn, and he or she would seemingly have years forward of her to construct on her complete.
After she tied Vonn this month, Shiffrin expressed uncertainty about “resetting” — her most popular time period to “breaking” — Stenmark’s record.
“I know it’s possible. Like, we have a lot of races left, and there’s not that many till I get to that number,” she told reporters. “But I know I might not win another race this season. And people will be like: ‘Oh, my gosh, you were so close. What happened?’ And I’m like, ‘That’s ski racing.’”