Mikaela Shiffrin's 100th Win
The Goat of Skiing
Mikaela Shiffrin, born on March 13, 1995, in Vail, Colorado, started skiing at two. By age eight, she had already started competing in ski racing. That wasn’t too surprising, given her entire family—her dad (Jett Shiffrin), mom (Eileen Shiffrin), and brother (Taylor Shiffrin)—competed in ski racing as well. Graduating from Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont at age 15, she joined the U.S. ski team, where she made her World Cup debut in 2011.
Shiffrin was already making history by being the youngest to compete at an Alpine World Cup race. In December 2012, she won her first slalom race in Åre, Sweden. For the 2012–13 season, she claimed the World Cup title in slalom, and in the 2014 Olympics, at 18, she became the youngest Olympic slalom champion in history. In 2017, she won the first of three consecutive World Cup overall titles. Shiffrin triumphed in 17 of the 26 World Cup races she entered in 2018–19, setting a record for most World Cup wins in a single season. At the 2019 World Championships, she won two gold medals in the slalom and super-G. On top of that, she took home the bronze in the giant slalom. With her gold in the slalom, she became the first Alpine skier to win four consecutive world championship titles in a single discipline.
In February 2020, Shiffrin’s father died after an accident in the family home. But this didn’t stop her. At the 2021 World Championships, she turned in one of her most remarkable performances. There she claimed four medals: one gold (combined), one silver (giant slalom), and two bronzes (super-G and slalom). Her victory combined brought her total number of world championship gold medals to six—an American record.
In February 2025, she set the record for 100 world cup wins, with:
Slalom (SL): 63 wins
Giant Slalom (GS): 22 wins
Super-G (SG): 5 wins
Downhill (DH): 4 wins
Alpine Combined (AC): 1 win
Parallel Slalom (PSL): 5 wins
She has five overall Crystal Globes and 156 World Cup podiums, making her, without a doubt, one of the greatest skiers of all time. Her saying, “Always be faster than the boys” (ABFTTB) inspires young girls to keep chasing their dreams.
SL: Tight technical turns
GS: Longer technical turns
SG: Speed event
DH: Speed event