HAFJELL, Norway — Mikaela Shiffrin has clinched a record-equalling sixth women’s overall World Cup skiing title, successfully fending off the challenge from rising German talent Emma Aicher in Wednesday’s final race of the season.
The American phenom only needed to place within the top 15 of a giant slalom, a goal she achieved before Aicher even started her second run.
Shiffrin, 31, now shares the record with Austrian downhill legend Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who amassed her six titles during the 1970s.
Moser-Pröll secured five consecutive titles from 1971-75, then added a sixth in 1979. Shiffrin’s victories include three straight from 2017-19, followed by back-to-back championships in 2022 and ’23.
Lindsey Vonn holds the third position on the women’s list with four overall titles.
Marcel Hirscher leads the men’s rankings with eight overall titles.
This has been another outstanding season for Shiffrin, who earned the third Olympic gold medal of her career by dominating the slalom event at the Milan Cortina Games.
Shiffrin also won nine out of the 10 World Cup slaloms this season and boasts a record 110 victories across all disciplines – making her by far the most successful skier in World Cup history, male or female. Ingemar Stenmark is next with 86 wins achieved in the 1970s and ’80s.