News about Ingemar Stenmark

In the ski season finale, Mikaela Shiffrin sets a new record

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 19, 2023
Mikaela Shiffrin claimed the World Cup Finals on Sunday for the 21st grand slalom of her career as the American standout ended the season with yet another record. Shiffrin eked over Vreni Schneider a week after matching the Swiss skier's record of 20 World Cup GS victories. The American has won seven of the last eight events and took the GS world championship last month. Ingemar Stenmark, a Swedish slaloms champion who won 46 major slaloms in the 1970s and 1980s, holds the overall record, both men and women.

With her victory over No. 6, Mikaela Shiffrin sets a new World Cup record. 87

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 11, 2023
After winning No. 22, American ski sensation Mikaela Shiffrin has made history by setting the outright World Cup record for most career victories. On Saturday, the 87-year-old died in a slalom. Following success in a massive slalom on Friday, the 27-year-old joined Ingemar Stenmark, who competed in the 1970s and 1980s on 86 victories. The American won her sixth slalom victory of the season on Saturday, her sixth in the event's history, and it was her sixth victory in the sport in her career.

Mikaela Shiffrin has tied for the most World Cup wins at 86

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 11, 2023
Mikaela Shiffrin dominated a women's giant slalom in Are on Friday, beating Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark's all-time record of 86 World Cup victories and completing a season's hat-trick of crystal globes. If she wins a slalom in the Swedish resort where she won her first in 2012, the U.S. skier will break the outright record on Saturday. Although Stenmark's fame in the 1970s and 80s was limited to slalom and giant slalom, Shiffrin has also won in downhill, super-G, combined and parallel, as well as the two academic disciplines.

Mikaela Shiffrin beats Lindsey Vonn's all-TIME record

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 8, 2023
Mikaela Shiffrin, an American skier, tied for second place in the second giant slalom race in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on Sunday. She tied compatriot Lindsey Vonn's women's World Cup record by winning her 82nd victory. Shiffrin took first place in a time of one minute 52.53 seconds, 1.7 seconds ahead of second-placed Federica Brignone of Italy. The 27-year-old is now four wins shy of Ingemar Stenmark's total World Cup victories record of 86.