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Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American World Cup alpine skier and is considered the greatest alpine skier of all time. She has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history (men or women), the only one to have reached the milestone of 100 victories.
She is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, a five-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and an eight-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event.[3][4] Shiffrin, at 18 years and 345 days, is the youngest slalom gold medalist in Olympic history.[5][6][7][8]
Shiffrin won her eighth career Alpine world championships gold medal on February 11, 2025, taking her overall tally to 15 medals from 18 career world championship races, and making Shiffrin the most successful skier in the modern era.[9] She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.[10]
Background and early years
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,[11][12] her mother became a nationally prominent masters racer.[13] Her paternal grandfather was Jewish.[14] Shiffrin’s father Jeff grew up in New Jersey and was an avid skier on weekends in Vermont with his family. As an undergraduate, he raced for Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.[15] Her mother Eileen raced in high school in northwestern Massachusetts in the Berkshires,[12] and her brother Taylor (born 1992) raced for the University of Denver.[16]
When Mikaela was eight in 2003, the family moved to rural New Hampshire near Lyme,[17] where her father, an anesthesiologist, worked at Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center. After five years, he took a new job in Denver;[18] Shiffrin’s older brother Taylor was in high school at Burke Mountain Academy, a ski academy in northeastern Vermont, and stayed in the east. Shiffrin also attended middle school at Burke but went with her parents to Colorado before returning to Burke.[15][19]
From a young age, Mikaela had strong results in major competitions. In March 2010, at age 14, she won both the slalom and GS at the Topolino Games in Italy, against skiers from 40 nations.[20] The following winter, now meeting the FIS minimum age requirement of 15 years, she won a Nor-Am Cup super combined race in December 2010 at Panorama, British Columbia, only the eighth FIS-level race in which she had competed.
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. Weeks later, she won a pair of Nor-Am slalom races held at Sunday River, Maine. 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 virus the day before).[21] In January 2015, Shiffrin named Croatian former ski racer Janica Kostelić and American Bode Miller as her idols while growing up.
Shiffrin made her World Cup debut on March 11, 2011, in giant slalom at Špindlerův Mlýn in the Czech Republic. 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,[25] and became the youngest American ski racer to claim a national alpine crown.[26]
Shiffrin made her World Cup debut on March 11, 2011, in giant slalom at Špindlerův Mlýn in the Czech Republic. 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,[25] and became the youngest American ski racer to claim a national alpine crown.[26]
2020 season
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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 also experienced similar fluctuations in ranking in giant slalom. She competed more frequently in speed races and, following the Bansko World Cup in January 2020, had recorded 6 victories for the season, 3 slaloms and one each in giant slalom, super-G, and downhill, off pace with her performance in previous seasons, but still the most on the World Cup tour and with a considerable lead in the Overall Standings.
However, on February 2, 2020, her father unexpectedly died in an accident,[75] causing her to take an indefinite break from the World Cup tour and her chances of a fourth consecutive title. She did attend the final competition in Åre, Sweden, but the race was canceled due to the coronavirus. As a result, Petra Vlhova took over the top spot of the slalom rankings following a World Cup in Slovenia, the first time Shiffrin wasn’t leading slalom at that point in the season since 2016, and Federica Brignone reduced her lead overall from over 400 points to just over 100, and later took over the lead in the overall, which marked the end of Shiffrin’s three-year winning streak.
2021 season
Shiffrin missed the first race weekend of the season in Sölden due to a back issue,[76] but returned to racing in the first of the two slalom races at Levi, where she placed second.[77] Shiffrin did not manage to return to the same level of domination that she left the World Cup circuit on, but nonetheless placed in the top six in every race, winning the Courchevel giant slalom in December and the Flachau night slalom in January, and placing third in the slalom at Semmering in late December.
However, at the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Shiffrin emerged on top form, performing perhaps even better than expected and winning four medals, the most she has won in a single World Championship event. Her bronze medal run in the super-G was her first time competing in a speed event in over a year, as she had opted not to return to speed events this season due to her wanting to ensure that the return to racing would not be too heavy as well as the COVID-19 pandemic keeping her apart from the speed team and training.
This feat was made more impressive by the fact that she had only trained Super-G for four days going into the competition.[78] Her gold medal in the Alpine Combined made her the most successful American alpine skier in the World Championships – with her sixth gold and ninth medal she surpassed the record five WCH gold medals won by Ted Ligety, as well as the record of eight WCH medals in total held by Lindsey Vonn.[79]
In the giant slalom, many of the favorites struggled, with World Cup leader Marta Bassino, two-time world champion Tessa Worley and reigning world champion Petra Vlhova struggling in both runs while the host country favorite Federica Brignone failed to finish the first run. Shiffrin ultimately won the silver in the giant slalom after narrowly finishing in first after one run, only .02 ahead of teammate Nina O’Brien and .08 ahead of Lara Gut-Behrami.
Going into the second run with a narrow lead, a mistake at the top of the course caused her to miss out on the gold medal; although she made up lost time at the bottom of the course, it wasn’t enough, finishing only .02 seconds behind Gut-Behrami. Austrian Katharina Liensberger moved up to third with only a .09 second deficit, making it the closest contested giant slalom in world championship history.
Shiffrin entered the final race of the championships, the slalom, with a record four consecutive world championship titles to her name. However, she struggled in the first run, skiing into fourth with a 1.30-second deficit behind Liensberger, Vlhova, and Wendy Holdener. She was able to overtake Holdener in the second run but was beaten by Vlhova and Liensberger, winning the bronze and losing the slalom title for the first time in her career; however, her bronze medal win still gave her an 11th world championship medal, tied with Anja Parson for the most medals won since World War 2, the most medals won by an athlete at the 2021 championships and extending her record as the most decorated American alpine skier in world championship history.
2022 season
At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Shiffrin was favored to win gold in at least three of the six events she was planning to compete in (especially her signature slalom and giant slalom). However, she uncharacteristically had a Did Not Finish (DNF) in the giant slalom and slalom, skiing out after the fifth gate in the first run of each race.[80] She finished ninth in the super-G.[81][82] In the remaining individual events (downhill and combined), Shiffrin did not win a medal.[83] She competed in the mixed team event for the first time on the last day of competition, finishing fourth as part of the U.S. team.[84][85]
2023 season
Shiffrin, as the 2023 overall World Cup champion, with her crystal globe
In the World Championships she won a gold medal in giant slalom, and medals in super-G and slalom.
In March 2023, Shiffrin won her 87th World Cup race, overtaking Ingemar Stenmark (86) for the most World Cup wins by any alpine skier.[86] In an interview on 27 February 2023, Stenmark hailed Shiffrin: “She’s much better than I was. You cannot compare… I could never have been so good in all disciplines”.[87]
She won an 88th World Cup race, the overall, the giant slalom and slalom season titles.
Her performances during the 2023 season earned her a nomination for the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year.[88]
2024 season
Shiffrin injured her left leg and ligaments in a crash in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy in late January. She was out of racing for six weeks to rehabilitate, winning two World Cup slalom races after her return.[89]
2025 season
On November 30, 2024, at the FIS World Cup race in Killington, Vermont, Shiffrin sustained a puncture wound to her right abdomen following a crash in the giant slalom, where she tumbled into two gates and hit the catch-fencing. She was cleared of major injuries afterwards.[90] On January 30, 2025, in her comeback race after her injuries had healed, she finished tenth in the slalom event at Courchevel.[91]
Alongside Breezy Johnson, she won gold in the inaugural team combined at the World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. It was her 15th world championship medal, which equalled the record of Christl Cranz.[92]
In a slalom at Sestriere on February 23, Shiffrin achieved a first for her sport, earning her 100th World Cup victory.[93][94] She added another victory at the season finals in Sun Valley, Idaho, winning the slalom on 27th March 2025. Despite missing four of the ten events, she was fourth in the slalom standings, with four victories and an additional podium.
2026 season
On November 15, 2025 Shiffrin won the first slalom race of the season in Levi, Finland. Her winning margin over second place Lara Colturi was 1.66 seconds. It was her 65th WC-slalom win and her 102nd overall WC-win.
On November 23, 2025 she won the second slalom race in Gurgl, Austria. Her winning margin over second place Lara Colturi was 1.23 seconds. It was her 66th slalom win and her 103rd overall WC-win.
On November 30, 2025 she won the third slalom race in Copper Mountain, U.S.. Her winning margin over second place Lena Dürr was 1.57 seconds. It was her 67th slalom win and her 104th overall WC-win.
On December 16, 2025 Shiffrin won the fourth slalom race in Courchevel, France, her first win there since 2018. Her winning margin over second place Camille Rast was 1.55 seconds. It was her 68th slalom win and her 105th overall WC-win.
As of December 16, 2025, Mikaela Shiffrin has won five World Cup slalom races in a row overall – that includes the four slalom victories she’s had so far this 2025–26 season (Levi, Gurgl, Copper Mountain, Courchevel) plus the final slalom race from last season on 27th March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Through December 2025, she has won 105 World Cup races,[96] overtaking Ingemar Stenmark for the most World Cup wins by any alpine skier,[86] including 68 slalom races, the most won by any alpine skier in any discipline, and 22 giant slalom races, the most by any female alpine skier.[citation needed]
Shiffrin holds the record of most World Cup podiums with 160. She is by far the best in converting podiums into wins: 65.6% of her podiums are victories.[citation needed]
Shiffrin is the only athlete to have won 15 races in the same calendar year, winning the last slalom of the 2018 season in Semmering and surpassing Marcel Hirscher. In the 2019 season, she became the first athlete to win 17 World Cup races during a season, breaking the record of 14 wins that Vreni Schneider had held for 30 years. By winning the gold medal in the slalom at the 2019 World Championships, she became the first alpine skier to win the world championship in the same discipline at four consecutive championships. Shiffrin holds the overall record of winning gold medals at seven world championships (all consecutively). Shiffrin achieved her historic 100th World Cup win in a slalom race in Sestriere, Italy, on February 23, 2025.{[citation needed]
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Season standings
| Season | ||||||||
| Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel | |
| 2012 | 16 | 43 | 17 | 49 | — | — | — | —N/a |
| 2013 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 19 | — | — | — | |
| 2014 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 7 | — | — | — | |
| 2015 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | |
| 2016 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 21 | 39 | — | 23 | |
| 2017 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 36 | 6 | |
| 2018 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 5 | — | |
| 2019 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25 | — | |
| 2020 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | — | 20 |
| 2021 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 2 | — | — | —N/a | — |
| 2022 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 26 | — | |
| 2023 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | —N/a | |
| 2024 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 29 | 20 | ||
| 2025 | 29 | 16 | 4 | 30 | — | — | ||
| 2026 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | — |
Standings through 24 January 2026
Race victories
| Total | Slalom | Giant slalom | Downhill | Super-G | Combined | Parallel | |
| Wins | 108 | 71 | 22 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Podiums | 166 | 97 | 44 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 7 |
Updated through January 25, 2026[97]
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