With the 2026 Winter Olympics fast approaching, US skiing icon Mikaela Shiffrin has started the 2025/26 FIS World Cup cycle in top form — particularly in her favored slalom event.
Closing out last season with a victory, Shiffrin is currently on a multi-event winning streak, earning her sixth straight slalom title in Semmering, Austria, on Sunday.
"It was a really hard day today, tough conditions, a really big fight, and the pressure's on… I did my best, best possible run," Shiffrin said afterwards.
Momentum is on her side, with Shiffrin set to enter the 2026 Winter Games in Italy as the winningest skier in World Cup history, surpassing Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark's 86 wins in March 2023 and becoming the first skier to reach 100 World Cup victories earlier this year.
Sunday's race marked the 30-year-old's 106th career World Cup title, with Shiffrin looking to add to her ever-growing historic record with three more slalom events scheduled before the Olympic women's Alpine skiing events kick off on February 8th.
The 2014 Olympic slalom champion and 2018 Winter Games giant slalom gold medalist is aiming to return to the podium after failing to medal at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Shiffrin will likely hit the slopes again next weekend, when the women's FIS World Cup lands in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, for a giant slalom and slalom competition.
Just one week after breaking the record for all-time World Cup wins, Mikaela Shiffrin made some more history to conclude the 2022-23 alpine skiing season.
By winning the final event of the season — a giant slalom in Soldeu, Andorra — the 28-year-old Shiffrin won her 88th career race and broke the records for most career women’s giant slalom wins (21) and most women’s career podiums (138).
Shiffrin was previously tied with Swiss skier Vreni Schneider for most World Cup giant slalom wins by a woman and fellow American Lindsey Vonn for most women’s World Cup podium finishes. The current record for overall podium finishes is held by former Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark (155) — a record Shiffrin could break as early as next year if she reproduces her success from this season.
In addition to winning the overall World Cup title — her fifth all-time — Shiffrin also takes home both the giant slalom and slalom crystal globes. The three-time Olympic medalist won 14 total races this season, which would have been a record if not for her 17-win season in 2018-19.