Shiffrin Wins 110th World Cup Race, Claims Slalom Globe in Dominant Season

Mikaela Shiffrin won her ninth slalom in 10 World Cup starts this season on Tuesday, beating the field by a massive 1.32 seconds in Hafjell, Norway, to collect the slalom crystal globe and put herself one giant slalom finish away from matching the most coveted record in women's alpine skiing.

The victory at the Lillehammer World Cup Finals earned Shiffrin 100 points in the race for the overall title, but Germany's Emma Aicher squeezed third place out of the slalom for 60 points of her own, keeping the American's overall lead below three figures. Shiffrin will start Wednesday's season-ending giant slalom 85 points ahead of Aicher, who must win that race to deny Shiffrin a women's record-tying sixth overall title.

Tuesday's result also set a women's World Cup record: nine wins in a single discipline is the best in 60 years on the circuit. With that ninth slalom win, Shiffrin broke her tie with Croatian Janica Kostelic for the most slalom victories in one World Cup season, not counting parallel slaloms. Her 110th career win is already the most in World Cup history by any man or woman; Ingemar Stenmark is next with 86 wins from the 1970s and '80s.

Aicher has never won a World Cup giant slalom and has a career-best finish of fourth, achieved earlier this month in Åre, Sweden. Shiffrin, the 2018 Olympic champion in giant slalom, can seal the overall title herself with a top-15 result Wednesday that will earn at least 16 points. The math, in other words, is heavily weighted toward Shiffrin. Swiss skier Wendy Holdener also provided a vital assist by taking second place ahead of Aicher by just 0.04 of a second, keeping 20 points off the German's tally.

Shiffrin accepted the slalom globe at the finish but was already focused on what comes next. "This is really a symbol of the work my team has done this year, but especially the last three seasons and last season specifically to help me through the injuries that I had," she said. "This was a really big push; there was a big effort from everybody." She was less certain about Wednesday's terrain. "I'm actually not confident at all, you saw today anything can happen," Shiffrin said. "I never skied on this slope in GS, it looks not super easy."

A sixth overall title would match Austrian downhill great Annemarie Moser-Pröll for the women's World Cup record. Moser-Pröll won five straight titles from 1971 to 1975, then a sixth in 1979. Shiffrin won three straight from 2017 to 2019, then back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023. She last won the overall in 2023, then dealt with injuries from race crashes that took her out of contention in 2024 and 2025. Laura Gut-Behrami and Federica Brignone claimed those two titles in her absence.

Shiffrin's average margin of victory across her nine slalom wins this season was 1.16 seconds, a number that underlines just how far removed she was from the rest of the field on most days. Her U.S. teammate Paula Moltzan finished fifth in both Tuesday's race and the season slalom standings, marking the best slalom season of Moltzan's career.

Shiffrin enters the season finale leading the overall standings with 1,386 points to Aicher's 1,301, with only Wednesday's giant slalom remaining. "This season has been so exciting, quite like a whirlwind," Shiffrin said. "I'm grateful for it.