It is Shiffrin’s seventh world title and 13th medal overall from 16 career world championship races
By ANDREW DAMPF and ERIC WILLEMSEN
Day had coached Shiffrin since 2016 and was with her for 65 of her 85 World Cup wins. Shiffrin needs just one more win to match Ingemar Stenmark’s overall record of 86 victories, having already broken Lindsey Vonn’s women’s mark of 82 wins. Shiffrin has now won two straight medals after taking silver in super-G, ending an unfortunate run in major championship races. She didn’t finish three of her five individual races at last year’s Beijing Olympics and didn’t win a medal despite enormous expectations — then also didn’t finish her first race at these worlds, when she straddled three gates from the finish of the combined to throw away what would have surely been gold.
The entire skiing circuit is like a family, too, with rivals on the slopes often sleeping in the same Alpine chalets and sharing dinners as they travel together all winter on what is known as the “White Circus.” French skier Tessa Worley, who was second after the opening run, slid on her inside ski and fell in her second run.
It raises Shiffrin’s tally to seven world titles and 13 medals overall from 16 career world championship races. She’s in second place behind German skier Christl Cranz on the all-time list for the most individual medals won by a woman at the worlds. Cranz won 15 medals in the 1930s.
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