Twenty-seven-year-old Shiffrin finished sixth in Slovenia on Saturday in the same discipline, and gave her opponents no chance on Sunday. She set the fastest time in the first and second rounds and in the sum of both runs she beat the second Italian Federica Brignone by 77 hundredths of a second.
“I had spots on my face. I don’t think I’ve ever been as nervous as today, I don’t even know why, maybe because of the number,” admitted the American. “I just wanted to ski well and I succeeded. Eighty-two wins is indescribable,” he said.
While Shiffrin excels above all in the twist disciplines, Vonn dominated above all in downhill and super-G. You collected her triumphs between 2001 and 2019, before health problems, especially in the knees, forced her to end her career.
Shiffrin fought her way through the gates on the Podkoren track flawlessly in Sunday’s race. “I couldn’t have gone any faster. I felt much, much better than yesterday in the first round,” she boasted after the first moto.
She can overtake Vonnová and come close to Stenmark’s all-time record already on Tuesday in Flachau in the evening slalom. After three more stages, the giant slalom and slalom will take place in Špindlerův Mlýn at the end of January.
Czech skier Adriana Jelínková took 55th place today with start number 60, losing almost four seconds to Shiffrinová.
