American star Shiffrin Expands Record with 105th World Cup Giant Slalom Victory.

Mikaela Shiffrin isn't just winning every slalom of the Winter Games season. She’s dominating each race and finishing with considerable leads as well.

An Evening Marked by Record-Extending Performance

The US ski sensation earned a record-extending 105th World Cup victory after a number of her primary challengers went out during the first run of a evening event on Tuesday.

Shiffrin increased her first-run lead and ended up 1.55 seconds ahead of Swiss skier Camille Rast and 1.71 seconds ahead of competitor from Germany Emma Aicher.

"Shiffrin has now won the opening four slaloms of the season – and five straight including the last event of last season," noted analysts.

Commanding Margins of Victory

All of her margins of victory this season have exceeded a full second – with three of them more than 1.5 seconds: a 1.66-second lead in Levi, Finland; 1.23 in Gurgl, Austria; and 1.57 in Copper Mountain, Colorado before her latest performance in the French Alps.

Challengers Encounter Difficulty

Rivals scrambling to catch Shiffrin encountered trouble.

• Lena Duerr, the German skier who was third after the first run, skied off the track early in her second trip down.
• Lara Colturi, the Italian-born skier who races for Albania, missed a gate toward the end of her opening run – halting a streak of three straight slalom podiums.
• Wendy Holdener managed a seventh-place finish even with a incident at the end of her first run where she hit a hole, was launched into the air, and landed on her back.

Defending World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Ljutic and Olympic silver medalist Katharina Liensberger, the next two starters, were disqualified midway down the course.

This marks the third consecutive slalom that Ljutic has not completed.

Race Results

Katharina Truppe of Austria finished fourth and American skier Paula Moltzan moved up from ninth to fifth with the quickest second run of the race.

An Iconic Career of Achievements

This win represented Shiffrin's sixty-eighth World Cup slalom victory. Her Olympic accolades include gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and gold in giant slalom four years later at the Pyeongchang Games. She did not reach the podium at the 2022 Beijing Games.

The upcoming winter Olympics' women’s Alpine skiing events will be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy – a venue where Shiffrin won four medals in her four events at the 2021 world championships.