“There are so many women who are strong and fast.” “I’m emotional because I don’t really feel like I should be winning a medal in super-G right now,” said Shiffrin, who had a win and a seventh place in two World Cup super-G starts this season and was sixth in the super-G run of Monday’s combined. The other is Austrian legend Hermann Maier. In the super-G, she now has a world championships medal of every color and is one of two skiers in history to make the super-G podium at three consecutive worlds. She has never raced the downhill at worlds and will not enter Saturday’s race. Shiffrin, the greatest slalom skier in history, is selective when it comes to the speed events of downhill and super-G. Shiffrin has six gold medals, one shy of that modern record. Swede Anja Pärson holds the overall record of 13 modern medals.
Shiffrin matched him in her 15th worlds start. Aamodt earned his 12th and final medal in his 27th world championships race. With her 12th world medal, the 27-year-old Shiffrin tied Kjetil Andre Aamodt, a Norwegian star of the 1990s and 2000s, for the most in individual events since World War II. Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, the reigning Olympic and world champ, led at the last intermediate split but lost 44 hundredths to Bassino in the final 18 seconds of the course and ended up sixth.ĪLPINE WORLDS: Results | Broadcast Schedule “I had one turn … coming off the pitch where I almost lost it all.Īustrian Cornelia Huetter and Norwegian Kajsa Vickhoff Lie tied for bronze, 33 hundredths back in a discipline where five different women won this season’s five World Cup races. “That was the best run I can do on this track,” Shiffrin told Austrian broadcaster ORF. Mikaela Shiffrin took silver behind Italian Marta Bassino in the super-G for her 12th world Alpine skiing championships medal, tying the modern individual record.īassino edged Shiffrin by 11 hundredths of a second in Meribel, France, for her second world title after sharing parallel gold in 2021.
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