Mikaela Shiffrin gained her milestone one centesimal Alpine snowboarding World Cup race on Sunday, simply weeks after getting back from a serious damage.
Her record-extending victory got here within the slalom, 61 hundredths of a second over Zrinka Ljutic of Crotia in Sestriere, Italy. Paula Moltzan of Minnesota took third.
“My feeling is clean somewhat bit,” Shiffrin advised reporters after the race. “It is overwhelming. It is too laborious to seek out ideas for it. However that is additionally a really peaceable second as a result of usually I am solely pondering. So generally it is good to have a second the place I am unable to assume.”
Shiffrin, 29, gained in simply her sixth race since returning following a crash Nov. 30 in an enormous slalom run in Killington, Vt., that left her with a stab wound in her indirect muscle that required surgical procedure.
“I’ve puzzled within the final weeks so many instances whether or not it’s the proper factor to come back again,” she stated. “We did not take the straightforward approach, that is for certain, however ultimately, with the intention to maintain transferring ahead and to complete this restoration, I’ve to be in begin gate, and I’ve to expertise these feelings once they’re good and once they’re dangerous. That is actually essential. Immediately was simply an incredible day in the midst of some actually robust months, however I am very grateful for at the present time.”
On Sunday, Shiffrin constructed a lead of 9 hundredths of a second over Ljutic after the primary run. Within the second run she ran fourth-fastest, and the mixed instances had been adequate for win No. 100.
“It is a small second in the midst of many robust moments that makes me really feel that possibly I might be good once more,” she stated.
In March 2023, Shiffrin broke Ingemar Stenmark’s Alpine report of 86 World Cup wins.
–Subject Stage Media