Feb 15, 2026; Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy; Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA through the ladies’s large slalom through the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Video games at Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre. Obligatory Credit score: Michael Madrid-Imagn Photographs Mikaela Shiffrin gained a record-tying sixth World Cup season title on Wednesday in Hafjell, Norway.
Heading into the large slalom, the ultimate race of the season, Shiffrin had an 85-point lead over Emma Aicher of Germany. A end no decrease than fifteenth place would end in claiming the title. Aicher may steal the title if she gained the race and Shiffrin completed under fifteenth within the large slalom.
Shiffrin completed eleventh, and Aicher led to twelfth place.
Shiffrin, 31, tied Annemarie Moser-Proll together with her sixth season championship. The Austrian gained 5 season titles from 1971-75 and the ultimate one in 1979.
The 2026 Olympic champion within the slalom, Shiffrin gained the World Cup title in consecutive years from 2017-19 and once more in 2022 and 2023.
“It is fairly emotional,” Shiffrin mentioned to the Worldwide Ski and Snowboard Federation after the race. “I am actually grateful to be on this place now. It is actually an enormous emotion, however I am so grateful for the struggle.”
Lindsey Vonn is subsequent on the checklist with 4 total titles.
Together with her slalom win on Tuesday, Shiffrin earned her one hundred and tenth profession victory on the World Cup circuit, extending her lead over Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who gained 86 earlier than his retirement in 1989.
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