[37], On February 26, Shiffrin won her first super combined race at Crans-Montana. [9][10] Shiffrin's father Jeff grew up in New Jersey, but was an avid skier on weekends in Vermont with his family; as an undergraduate, he raced for Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Born in Vail, Colorado,[2] Shiffrin is the second child of Eileen (née Condron) and Jeff Shiffrin, both originally from the Northeastern United States and former ski racers. She made history winning the very first FIS parallel slalom with the win in Courchevel, France.

Due to weather delays, the slalom was contested the day after the giant slalom. [24] Shiffrin's second win came two weeks later at a night slalom at Zagreb, Croatia;[25] and her third win 11 days later at another night slalom in Flachau, Austria.

Click here to request Getty Images Premium Access through IBM Creative Design Services. This secured her her fourth slalom world cup. After five years, he took a new job in Denver;[14] her older brother Taylor was in high school at Burke Mountain Academy, a ski academy in northeastern Vermont, and stayed in the east. Fanclub of U.S. Alpine Ski Racer Mikaela Shiffrin. Shiffrin followed it up with three podiums in her next three Nor-Am races: runner-up in a super-G, third in a GS, and victory in a slalom. She won her first parallel slalom on January 31 in Stockholm, Sweden. It was her ninth World Cup victory of the season, and extended her lead in the overall standings. Shiffrin, age 16, then posted the fastest time in the second run to secure third place. By winning her second Olympic gold medal in the 2018 giant slalom, Shiffrin tied Ted Ligety and Andrea Mead Lawrence for the most Olympic gold medals ever won by an American Olympian in alpine skiing. She is one of only 5 Americans to ever win the World Cup overall title. [12], When Mikaela was eight in 2003, the family moved to rural New Hampshire near Lyme,[13] where her father, an anesthesiologist, worked at Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center. With that race she also equalled the record of the Austrian Marlies Schild for the most wins in women's slalom – 35,[38] and put herself in joint seventh place in all-time World Cup victories with Alberto Tomba of Italy. She also became the first woman in history to win the first 5 World Cup races of a calendar year and the first one in 20 years (since Katja Seizinger) to win 5 straight World Cup races. [64], In the weeks after the February 2019 World Ski Championship, Amanda Ruggeri twice profiled Shiffin in Deadspin,[65][66] and she was featured in The Wall Street Journal. These include slalom, giant slalom, downhill, super-G, combined, and the most recently added, parallel slalom (also called a city event).

In early December she competed in downhill at Lake Louise, where she reached her first downhill podium (3rd place) and the next day she won her first downhill race in her fourth ever start. [53] She placed 4th in the slalom despite being favored to win the gold medal in the event. [35] Shiffrin subsequently won the final race held at Semmering, a slalom, on December 29, 2016, achieving her 26th World cup victory and completing her sweep of races at the resort. On December 11, 2016, Shiffrin won her 11th straight World Cup win in the slalom in Sestriere, Italy. On January 29 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Shiffrin posted her best result in a speed event, finishing fourth in the super-G, only 0.03 seconds off the podium. Shiffrin opened the 2015 season in October 2014 in Sölden with her first World Cup win in giant slalom. 974k Followers, 1,060 Following, 1,577 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Mikaela Shiffrin ⛷ (@mikaelashiffrin) [23] She became the second-youngest American to win an alpine World Cup event, behind Judy Nagel (17 yr, 5 mo.). This marked her 5th win out of 9 season races to start the 2018/2019 season. Shiffrin had inconsistent performances in the technical races in the first half of the 2020 season, winning three slalom races to start, but placing runner up to Petra Vlhova later in the season.

She then won the slalom in Flachau, Austria to equal Annemarie Moser-Pröll's record of 41 World Cup wins before 23rd birthday. She has more World Cup victories before the age of 22 than Ingemar Stenmark, the record holder for number of World Cup victories. [43][44], Following the Worlds, in March 2019 Shiffrin became the first alpine skier to take 15 World Cup wins in a season when she took victory in a slalom in Špindlerův Mlýn, breaking the record she had previously held jointly with Vreni Schneider.