On Feb. 19, 1989, Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark once won his 86th and final ski race and has held the record for most Alpine World Cup victories ever since. But now he has been knocked off his throne: American World Cup skier Mikaela Shiffrin won her 87th World Cup race in Åre, Sweden, on March 11, 2023. She once scored her first-ever World Cup victory on the same mountain on Dec. 20, 2012.
Shiffrin’s 87 victories are the result of outstanding performances over the years, with a cumulative time advantage of 62 seconds and 09 hundredths in 246 races, for a 35.4-percent win rate. She also has 30 victories in 6 different disciplines, making her the only skier to win at least one slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and parallel race.
With 53 slalom wins, the U.S. ski racer is the alpine racer with the most slalom World Cup wins of all time. She has also won 7 crystal globes in this discipline, holding the record for the most globes in this discipline. She has also remained loyal to her ski manufacturer: Shiffrin achieved her victories on 25 different Atomic Redster models, from the Redster Doubledeck in 2012 to the Redster Revoshock in 2023.
