Mikaela Shiffrin ended the Alpine ski season in Andorra with a flourish on Sunday, extending her list of records with an 88th World Cup win, 21st giant slalom victory and 138th podium appearance.
The American had equalled compatriot Lindsey Vonn's women's podium record with third place in a slalom on Saturday and Sunday's race in Soldeu left her 17 short of Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark's all-time haul of 155 podiums.
Her giant slalom tally took her one clear of the women's record she shared with Swiss great Vreni Schneider while the 2,206 points she amassed on the way to a fifth overall title was a personal career high.of 87 wins earlier this month and had already won the slalom and giant slalom titles along with the overall crystal globe.
Shiffrin took a 0.62-second lead over Canada's Valerie Grenier after the first run on the Avet piste and finished with a combined time of 1:55.88 -- 0.06 seconds ahead of Norway's Thea Louise Stjernesund. Grenier was third."I am excited to come back and do it again next season," she told Norwegian skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, her partner, who turned surprise television interviewer for the governing FIS in the finish area.
"I will get a little bit of time on the beach just for a few days and then back here in Europe for a few ski tests and then a little bit of a longer break," she added.Pre-race favourites, including last year's Olympic champion Sara Hector of Sweden, Italy's Federica Brignone and Saturday's slalom winner Petra Vlhova, did not finish their first runs after crashing through gates.
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