Shiffrin, Pinturault Get Wins for World Cup Record Book

Date: 16 March 2019 - 21:29

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SOLDEU, Andorra (AP) -- Embodying the Olympic motto in a World Cup slalom Saturday, Mikaela Shiffrin went faster in her second slalom run and higher in the World Cup all-time lists by being stronger than Wendy Holdener to win an intense duel.
Shiffrin's 40th career victory in World Cup slaloms tied her with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark's record for wins in the discipline.
On a record-setting day in sun-bathed Andorra, Alexis Pinturault earlier won the final men's giant slalom of the season.
Pinturault became the most prolific French skier in World Cup history with his 23rd career victory.
Shiffrin had trailing 0.28 seconds behind first-run leader Holdener and won by just 0.07 after both racers visibly pushed their limits slicing through the gates.
Holdener's unlucky defeat extended her own unwanted World Cup record with a 22nd career podium finish in slalom without a victory.
That's the most top-three placings in a single discipline without winning for any man or woman in the 52-year World Cup history.
Shiffrin, the 2014 Sochi Winter Games gold medalist, earned 100 race points to lift her season-long total in the slalom standings to a remarkable 1,160 - more than every woman skier's total over all disciplines, except for overall standings runner-up Petra Vlhova.
Shiffrin's mammoth 2,104 points - the second-highest total ever in the World Cup - is more than 800 ahead of Vlhova. Holdener is third.
Vlhova placed third Saturday but trailed more than a second behind the standout leading pair.
Frida Hansdotter, the 2018 Olympic slalom champion competing in her final World Cup race, placed fifth, 1.89 behind Shiffrin.