Mikaela Shiffrin wins Super G in St. Moritz to claim 77th World Cup victory
The double Olympic champion closes in on Lindsey Vonn's record for most wins by a female skier and extends her lead at the top of the overall standings.
Alpine Skiing
Mikaela Shiffrin produced an impressive performance on Sunday (18 December) in St. Moritz, Switzerland, to claim her first Super G World Cup event in almost three years - her last win was in Bansko on 26 January 2020.
The American, who was making her debut in the discipline this season, mastered the most technical sections of the Corviglia track to cross the finish line in 1:13.62 for her win number 77 in the alpine skiing’s elite circuit.
That was Shiffrin’s 124th career podium (from 227 starts) and now Lindsey Vonn’s record for most wins by a female skier (82) is just five victories away.
Italian Elena Curtoni clocked the second fastest time (+0.12) to take her second podium in the last three days following her win in Friday’s downhill.
France’s Romane Miradoli came in third, 0.40 seconds behind Shiffrin.
Sofia Goggia couldn’t replicate her downhill performance from Saturday, when she finished first just hours after having surgery to her broken hand, and settled for fifth.
After this win, Shiffrin extends her lead in the overall World Cup standings to 575 points, with Goggia in second place (470). The 27-year-old will be again in action in Semmering, Austria, on 27-29 December (2 giant slaloms, 1 slalom).
"I'm going to have a Christmas in some place in Austria, I think. And hopefully I'll be able to see Alexander (Aamodt Kilde, her boyfriend) because he has a little bit of time and I have a little bit of time. So maybe we have a little celebration together," she said after the race.
Shiffrin: Second Super G win in St. Moritz
"I feel quite good. It’s a beautiful day and it’s so nice to ski on this track when everything is in the sun," Shiffrin said to Eurosport-Discovery after claiming her fifth World Cup Super G podium in St. Moritz, where she won in December 2018.
"And I think it was good that I was going in seventh, because I didn’t have time to watch something or really think too much, I just had to go with my line and push as hard I could, I was able to do that and it felt really good skiing."
Following a sixth and a fourth place in downhill in Switzerland, this win confirms her progress in the speed disciplines:
"I love skiing speed and it (Super G) is maybe the event that comes the most naturally for me," she told reporters.
"I just really enjoy it. And it's also a little bit of, I don't know, some crazy anticipation, so it's very exciting to do!"
You can watch more on the two-time Olympic champion in the new content series 'Moving Right Along' on her new Youtube Channel.
Women's Super G St. Moritz on Sunday 18 December - Results
- Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) – 1:13.62
- Elena Curtoni (ITA) +0.12
- Romane Miradoli (FRA) +0.40
- Michelle Gisin (SUI) +0.57
- Sofia Goggia (ITA) +0.60
- Ragnhild Mowinckel (NOR) +0.67
- Mirjam Puchner (AUT) +0.96
- Lara Gut-Behrami (SUI) +0.99
- Nicole Schmidhofer (AUT) +1.05
- Ramona Siebenhofer (AUT) +1.16