Mikaela Shiffrin is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a three-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event. Mikaela Shiffrin is the youngest slalom champion in Olympic alpine skiing history.
Mikaela Shiffrin was born on March 13, 1995, in Vail, Colorado, the United States. At a young age, she was training at the ski academy in northeastern Vermont, showing strong results in major competitions. At age 14, she won both the slalom and GS at the Topolino Games in Italy. The following winter, now meeting the FIS minimum age requirement of 15 years, she won a Nor-Am Cup super-combined race in December 2010 at Panorama in British Columbia. Later, Mikaela Shiffrin took the slalom bronze medal at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships held at Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
The best achievements of Mikaela Shiffrin are gold medals in Slalom at the Sochi 2014 Olympics and in the Giant slalom at PyeongChang 2018. She also won the silver at the combined at PyeongChang 2018. By winning her second Olympic gold medals, Mikaela Shiffrin tied Ted Ligety and Andrea Mead Lawrence for the most Olympic gold medals ever won by an American Olympian in alpine skiing.
In World Championships, Mikaela Shiffrin is the most decorated American alpine skier in history, having won the most medals (11) overall, a record six of them gold. She won the titles in slalom at Schladming 2013 in slalom, Beaver Creek 2015 in slalom, St Moritz 2017, and Are 2019, as well as the Super-G in Are 2019 and combined in Cortina d’Ampezzo 2021.
Mikaela Shiffrin also won two silver medals in Giant slalom at St Moritz 2017 and Cortina d’Ampezzo 2021, as well as bronze at Giant slalom at Are 2019. She also has two more bronze medals at Cortina d’Ampezzo 2021 at Super-G and slalom.
Mikaela Shiffrin is also the first and only athlete with wins in all six FIS Alpine Ski World Cup disciplines. She has won World Cup races in ladies’ slalom, parallel slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill, and alpine combined. She is the youngest skier to win 50 World Cup races, doing so at the age of 23 years and 9 months.
Mikaela Shiffrin has won 73 World Cup races, the 2nd most all-time by a female alpine skier, including 47 WC slalom races, the most won by any alpine skier. She is the only athlete to have won 15 races in the same calendar year, winning the last slalom of the 2018 season in Semmering.
Mikaela Shiffrin is one of the most successful Alpine skier and definitely one of the best woman in sports.
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