Alpine skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin wins her 83rd World Cup victory and erases Lindsey Vonn

Mikaela Shiffrin has already dropped off Lindsey Vonn, two weeks after equaling the record for World Cup victories held by her compatriot.

The 27-year-old American won the Kronplatz giant slalom on Tuesday and, at the same time, an 83rd victory in the Alpine Skiing World Cup.

The double Olympic champion had obtained her 82nd success in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on January 8.

She is now alone at the top of the Everest of women's skiing.

Indescribable.

Proud of this team.

Thank you.🙏❤️

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— Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) January 8, 2023

Despite this established record, Shiffrin's hunt does not end there.

The Colorado skier can aim for the 86 successes of Swede Ingemar Stenmark, the most prolific winner of World Cup races, women and men alike.

In Italy, Shiffrin clocked the best time of the two races contested.

On arrival, she was ahead of the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami by 45 hundredths and the Italian Federica Brignone by more than a second (1′43).

Beyond the historic symbol of her performance, the American continues to get closer to a fifth crystal globe, she who has more than 550 points ahead of her runner-up, Gut-Behrami, in the general classification.

If she had won the big globe last year, Shiffrin still had to recover from a disappointing Winter Olympics.

In Beijing, she hadn't pocketed any medals.

This Tuesday, she can be reassured by observing her pharaonic ratio of victories in the World Cup: this is approaching 35%.