[11] Her mother Eileen raced in high school in northwestern Massachusetts in the Berkshires,[10] and brother Taylor (born 1992), raced for the University of Denver. [51], Favored to win the slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Shiffrin led after the first run and nearly fell in the second, but held on for victory at Rosa Khutor. [26] After winning the slalom at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, she secured the 2013 season title in the slalom discipline. Prova questi suggerimenti per ampliare la tua ricerca: Verifica l'eventuale presenza di errori di ortografia o refusi. A month later Shiffrin took the slalom bronze medal at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships held at Crans-Montana, Switzerland (after having been down with a stomach flu the day before). ". She has won 66 World Cup races, the 2nd most all time by a female alpine skier, including 43 WC slalom races, the most won by any alpine skier, male or female. [46] She went on to win the slalom, her 16th win of the season and the 40th slalom win of her career, tying with Stenmark for the most World Cup slalom race wins. We support our favourite sports athlete and share her path with all ski racing fans around the globe. After the season, she received the "Skieur d’Or" (golden skier) award, given by the international ski journalist association to the best alpine skier of the year (one award for both genders). I get this adrenaline rush from just going down the course and feeling like I made a really great turn and I'm going to do it again and again and again. While meeting the minimum age requirement of 15 years, she won a Nor-Am Cup super combined race in December 2010 at Panorama in British Columbia, only the eighth FIS-level race in which she had competed. [36] However she missed out on equalling the record of eight consecutive slalom wins, jointly held by Schneider and Janica Kostelić, when she failed to finish first run of the Snow Queen Trophy race in Zagreb on January 3 – her first DNF in slalom since a race in Semmering in 2012. [4] Shiffrin is the youngest slalom champion in Olympic alpine skiing history, at 18 years and 345 days.[5][6][7][8]. The IBM strategic repository for digital assets such as images and videos is located at dam.ibm.com. However, due to having the 3rd fastest slalom run—and many of the leaders of the first run having mistakes in the second—she was able to move up to the silver medal position behind Michelle Gisin of Switzerland. 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. Two days later she won the slalom in Zagreb, Croatia. She is also the first and only athlete—male or female—with wins in all six FIS Alpine Ski World Cup disciplines. That year, she was named one of ESPNW's Impact 25.[29]. Shiffrin ended the season as the reigning Olympic, World Cup, and world champion in slalom. Shiffrin began rising up through the ranks in alpine racing as soon as she was old enough to compete in FIS-sanctioned races. She became the first skier to win World Cups in a technical and a speed event in the same season since Tina Maze six years earlier. [60], On October 27, 2016, Shiffrin, speaking in German, presented the award for the best Austrian sportsman to Marcel Hirscher at a sports gala in Austria. {{collectionsDisplayName(searchView.appliedFilters)}}, {{searchText.groupByEventToggleImages()}}, {{searchText.groupByEventToggleEvents()}}, Risultati corrispondenti a meno parole chiave. This tied her for second with her teammate Lindsey Vonn for most World Cup wins in a single season by a woman, behind Swiss skier Vreni Schneider holding the record of 14. Le bacheche sono il luogo migliore in cui salvare immagini e video. On December 12, 2015, during the warm-up for the giant slalom in Åre, she fell and injured her knee. Shiffrin opened the 2015 season in October 2014 in Sölden with her first World Cup win in giant slalom. Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup alpine skier.She is a three-time Overall World Cup champion, the four-time reigning world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event. Il contratto Premium Access del tuo team sta per scadere. [77] After covering Shiffrin's training regimen in 2017,[78] Red Bull in 2018 produced the 48-minutes long documentary "Peak Season: The Determination of Mikaela Shiffrin. [58] On July 12, 2014, Shiffrin was a guest on the NPR radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!,[59] where she won the show's Not My Job game at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. She is the only athlete - male or female - to have won 15 races in the same calendar year, winning the last slalom of the 2018 season in Semmering and surpassing Marcel Hirscher. [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. We support our favourite sports athlete and share her path with all ski racing fans around the globe. She finished the first run in fourth, and was unable to improve her ranking after the second run, missing the podium after winning every single major slalom title that she entered in her career beforehand. That's where the joy comes from. She is one of only 5 Americans to ever win the World Cup overall title. She also won the world cup slalom races in Flachau, Åre and Lenzerheide, to secure a consecutive World Cup slalom title. 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. [55][56], In 2014, Shiffrin was featured in a one-hour special on NBC television, How to Raise an Olympian, on February 5. [72] The New York Times profiled Shiffrin as "the face of American skiing,",[73] a theme echoed in a Sports Illustrated profile and video where Shiffrin talked in detail about her history with Lindsey Vonn. She started 2018 with the win in the City Event in Oslo, Norway and became the first women ever with 2 wins in City Event. Scegli tra immagini premium su Mikaela Shiffrin della migliore qualità. [37], On February 26, Shiffrin won her first super combined race at Crans-Montana. The event was broadcast on television with live social-media components to enhance each segment. She has won World Cup races in ladies' slalom, parallel slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill, and alpine combined. In the giant slalom she finished second after the first run behind Italian Manuela Moelgg, but was able to secure the gold when Moelgg made mistakes on the second run. Fanclub of U.S. Alpine Ski Racer Mikaela Shiffrin. Then she won the slalom in Lienz, Austria to finish her 2017 year. That's the feeling I'm striving to get every time when I'm on the slopes.". [53] She placed 4th in the slalom despite being favored to win the gold medal in the event. [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. She has more World Cup victories before the age of 22 than Ingemar Stenmark, the record holder for number of World Cup victories. Fanclub of U.S. Alpine Ski Racer Mikaela Shiffrin. Mikaela Shiffrin, Vail. Shiffrin, age 16, then posted the fastest time in the second run to secure third place. The weather delays also caused the downhill and the super combined to be held on consecutive days, choosing to run only one of the two. However, on February 3, 2020, her father unexpectedly died in an accident, causing her to take an indefinite break from the World Cup tour and her chances of a fourth consecutive title. After a third place in downhill, things stopped going her way. 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 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. The race was also her 36th World Cup slalom win, breaking Schild's record: Shiffrin subsequently described Schild as "my biggest idol beside Bode Miller". [61][62] In 2017, Shiffrin discussed her skiing roots and aptitude for napping on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers. [52], She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang where she won the gold medal in the giant slalom and silver medal in the Combined. [63] In 2018, Shiffrin was profiled on CBS News' 60 Minutes. After so many years of traveling all over the world to find snow during the summer, it was sooo incredible to get back to the “roots” right here in the US at Mt. In the super combined, the final individual alpine event on the Olympic schedule, she finished 6th after downhill. Mi piace: 446.672. In Aspen, Colorado, the World Cup finals of the season took place. [citation needed], Shiffrin secured her second consecutive World Cup overall title on March 9, 2018 with 5 races left in the season. Three weeks shy of her 19th birthday, she became the youngest slalom champion in Olympic history. At Beaver Creek, she was runner-up in the giant slalom, her first World Cup podium in that discipline. Shiffrin is the youngest slalom champion in Olympic alpine skiing history, at 18 years and 345 days. She missed the other five slaloms due to injuries, and chose not to compete in a parallel slalom in Stockholm. [74], Shiffrin has been the subject of long-form documentary videos. This was followed by a victory in slalom at Levi on November 12. This repository is populated with tens of thousands of assets and should be your first stop for asset selection. [34], Shiffrin opened the 2017 season with a second-place finish in giant slalom at Sölden in October 2016. In early April, just a few weeks after her 16th birthday, she won the slalom title at the US National Championships at Winter Park, Colorado,[18] and became the youngest American ski racer to claim a national alpine crown. [30][31][32][33] She ended up winning the slalom world cup title once again. [23] She became the second-youngest American to win an alpine World Cup event, behind Judy Nagel (17 yr, 5 mo.). [citation needed], One week later, she took another World Cup slalom win in Semmering, Austria, becoming the first alpine skier to take 15 World Cup wins in a single calendar year, moving ahead of Marcel Hirscher, who had taken 14 wins in 2018: both had broken the old record of 13 wins which had been set by Ingemar Stenmark in 1979. Scopri le migliori foto stock e immagini editoriali di attualità di Mikaela Shiffrin su Getty Images. In the 2016 season, she won all five slaloms she started. [47] The following day she took her 17th win of the season and the 60th win of her career in the giant slalom to secure the GS crystal globe, becoming the first skier to win the overall, super-G, giant slalom and slalom World Cup titles in a single season. 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. Shiffrin entered the heavy favorite as the reigning Olympic champion, three-time consecutive world champion, reigning World Cup champion and the world cup leader in the 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. The rest of January had two 7th places and three races where she did not finish. Hosted by Meredith Vieira, it chronicled the journeys of seven US Olympians and featured interviews from parents and coaches along with home video and photos from each athlete's childhood. [citation needed], At the 2018 Winter Olympics, in Pyeongchang, South Korea – after several days of weather postponements, which caused the first three and final two races to be held on consecutive days, Shiffrin won gold in giant slalom as well as silver in super combined. [57] After Shiffrin's first gold medal win, she played "Catch Phrase" with Reese Witherspoon and Usher on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. On November 26, 2016, she finished fifth in giant slalom at Killington in her first World Cup race in Vermont, but she returned the following day to a first-place finish in the slalom. Weeks later, she won a pair of Nor-Am slalom races held at Sunday River, Maine. 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. Shiffrin secured her first overall World Cup, but did not win the giant slalom World Cup that year. [3] Though she spent most of her last two years of high school in Europe on the World Cup circuit, she graduated on time from Burke Mountain Academy in June. I can hear the rhythm in my head, and when I start to ski that rhythm and I start to really link my turns together, all of a sudden there's so much flow and power that I just can't help but feel amazing. With wins in both the giant slalom and slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Shiffrin clocked up her 39th and 40th World Cup wins at age 22. [17].In January 2015,Shiffrin named former Croatian ski racer Janica Kostelić as her idol while growing up. With her 1st super-G World Cup win at Lake Louise, Shiffrin become the seventh woman to win in the five more traditional disciplines (not including parallel slalom). She won her first parallel slalom on January 31 in Stockholm, Sweden. She also experienced similar fluctuations in ranking in Giant Slalom. Seleziona non più di 100 immagini da scaricare. This made her the first woman to take three wins in three consecutive days in technical disciplines since Vreni Schneider won two giant slaloms in Schwarzenberg and a slalom in Mellau in January 1989. Click here to request Getty Images Premium Access through IBM Creative Design Services. In the first two slalom races of the 2016 season, both in Aspen, Shiffrin won by large margins, and in her first race, she achieved a new record margin for women's slalom, 3.07 seconds over the runner-up. [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. Raccogli, seleziona e commenta i tuoi file. Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin is an American two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup alpine skier. "[79][80] In April 2019, NBC's Olympia channel devoted 25 hours of prime-time to feature 20 of Shiffrin's races in the 2018-2019 season;[81] her fanclub also released a compilation of highlights from her 2018-2019 season. [45] At the World Cup finals in Soldeu, Shiffrin started her campaign by clinching the super-G crystal globe, finishing fourth in the final race to take her tenth World Cup title and her first in a speed discipline, having already built an unassailable lead to secure the overall and slalom titles earlier in the season. [20][21][22], Shiffrin won her first World Cup race in December 2012 at age 17, in a night slalom in Åre, Sweden. She made history winning the very first FIS parallel slalom with the win in Courchevel, France. [4] Shiffrin also won the World Championship in slalom held in Beaver Creek next to her home city of Vail, Colorado, USA. She is often featured in Outside's "In Search of Speed," including in 2015,[75] 2017[76] and 2018. Tina Maze and Lindsey Vonn never won a parallel slalom race since its introduction into World Cup competition. At the World Cup Finals in Åre, Sweden she won the slalom by 1.58 seconds over Wendy Holdener of Switzerland, her 12th win of the season. Although she had originally intended to run at least 4 races, she pulled out of the super-G due to it being held the day after slalom, believing that she would not be able to perform well if she did 3 races in as many days. In Squaw Valley, the first World Cup races there since 1969, she won the giant slalom on March 10 and the slalom the following day, taking her to 31 World Cup victories and 11 for the season. Due to weather delays, the slalom was contested the day after the giant slalom. [11][15] She has been treated for anxiety disorder and hyperactive type ADHD ever since she was a child.[16]. Shiffrin also attended middle school at Burke, but went with her parents to Colorado, before returning to Burke. "When I ski, it's like a song. She then won the slalom in Flachau, Austria to equal Annemarie Moser-Pröll's record of 41 World Cup wins before 23rd birthday.