American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin has equaled Lindsey Vonn’s record of 82 World Cup wins with victory in the giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia
, on Sunday. The two-time Olympic gold medalist is now the joint record holder for the most World Cup wins by a female skier, and by an American. After taking a 0.24-second lead in the first run, Shiffrin finished 0.20-second ahead of Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami, who finished third overall, and Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova in her second run. Italy’s Federica Brignone placed second overall. “I was so nervous this run,” Shiffrin said after the victory.
” Shiffrin is now four wins away from tying the overall record for World Cup wins, currently held by Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark . Shiffrin had to wait for her record-tying victory after the previous race in Zagreb was canceled on Thursday due to “high temperatures and wind,” race organizers said in a tweet. Then on Saturday, she finished joint sixth in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, behind winner Valerie Grenier of Canada.
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