70 Facts About Mikaela Shiffrin

Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin was born on March 13,1995 and is an American World Cup alpine skier who has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history and is considered one of the greatest alpine skiers of all time.

Mikaela Shiffrin is a five-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom and a seven-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event.

Mikaela Shiffrin won her seventh career Alpine world championships gold medal on February 16,2023, taking her overall tally to 14 medals from 16 career world championship races, and making Mikaela Shiffrin the most successful skier in the modern era.

Mikaela Shiffrin was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

Mikaela Shiffrin's father Jeff grew up in New Jersey and was an avid skier on weekends in Vermont with his family.

Mikaela Shiffrin's mother Eileen raced in high school in northwestern Massachusetts in the Berkshires, and her brother Taylor was born on 1992 and raced for the University of Denver.

Mikaela Shiffrin attended middle school at Burke but went with her parents to Colorado before returning to Burke.

From a young age, Mikaela Shiffrin had strong results in major competitions.

Mikaela Shiffrin followed it up with three podiums in her next three Nor-Am races: runner-up in a super-G, third in a GS, and victory in a slalom.

In January 2015, Mikaela Shiffrin named Croatian former ski racer Janica Kostelic and American Bode Miller as her idols while growing up.

Mikaela Shiffrin made her World Cup debut on March 11,2011, in giant slalom at Spindleruv Mlyn in the Czech Republic.

Mikaela Shiffrin started 40th, lost her left shin guard halfway down, but finished in 12th place in the first run.

Mikaela Shiffrin then posted the fastest time in the second run to secure third place.

Mikaela Shiffrin won her first World Cup race in December 2012 at age 17, in a night slalom in Are, Sweden.

Mikaela Shiffrin opened the 2014 season in October 2013 in Solden, Austria, with a career-best sixth in giant slalom, within a half-second of the podium.

Mikaela Shiffrin won the next event, a slalom at Levi, Finland, improving on her podium finish the previous year for her fifth World Cup victory.

Mikaela Shiffrin won the world cup slalom races in Flachau, Are, and Lenzerheide to secure a second consecutive World Cup slalom title.

Mikaela Shiffrin ended the season as the reigning Olympic, World Cup, and world champion in slalom.

Mikaela Shiffrin opened the 2015 season in October 2014 in Solden with her first World Cup win in giant slalom.

Mikaela Shiffrin had some trouble with slalom at first and ended up outside the podium in the first three World Cup slalom races, but emerged victorious in the races at Kuhtai, Zagreb, Maribor, Are and Meribel.

Mikaela Shiffrin ended up winning the slalom world cup title .

Mikaela Shiffrin won the World Championship in slalom held in Beaver Creek next to her home city of Vail, Colorado, USA.

Mikaela Shiffrin missed the other five slaloms due to injuries and chose not to compete in parallel slalom in Stockholm.

Mikaela Shiffrin opened the 2017 season with a second-place finish in giant slalom at Solden in October 2016.

On December 11,2016, Mikaela Shiffrin won her 11th straight World Cup in the slalom in Sestriere, Italy.

Mikaela Shiffrin subsequently won the final race held at Semmering, a slalom, on December 29,2016, achieving her 26th World cup victory and completing her sweep of races at the resort.

Mikaela Shiffrin secured her first overall World Cup but did not win the giant slalom World Cup that year.

Mikaela Shiffrin started the 2018 season with a 5th-place finish in giant slalom at Solden.

Mikaela Shiffrin made history by winning the very first FIS parallel slalom with the win in Courchevel, France.

Mikaela Shiffrin started 2018 with a win in the City Event in Oslo, Norway, and became the first woman ever with 2 wins in City Event.

Mikaela Shiffrin then won the slalom in Flachau, Austria to equal Annemarie Moser-Proll's record of 41 World Cup wins before her 23rd birthday.

Mikaela Shiffrin became the first woman in history to win the first 5 World Cup races of a calendar year and the first one in 20 years to win 5 straight World Cup races.

Mikaela Shiffrin entered the heavy favorite as the reigning Olympic champion, three-time consecutive world champion, reigning World Cup champion, and the world cup leader in the event.

Mikaela Shiffrin finished the first run in fourth and was unable to improve her ranking after the second run, missing the podium after winning every single major slalom title she entered in her career beforehand.

Mikaela Shiffrin was far behind the leader, 1.98 seconds behind her compatriot Lindsey Vonn.

Mikaela Shiffrin secured her second consecutive World Cup overall title on March 9,2018, with 5 races left in the season.

Mikaela Shiffrin joined Lindsey Vonn, Tina Maze, Janica Kostelic, Anja Parson, Pernilla Wiberg, and Petra Kronberger.

The race was her 36th World Cup slalom win, breaking Schild's record: Mikaela Shiffrin subsequently described Schild as "my biggest idol beside Bode Miller".

At the start of February 2019, shortly before the 2019 Alpine World Ski Championships, Mikaela Shiffrin moved into third place on the list of female skiers with the most World Cup race wins at a meeting in Maribor, tying with Vlhova for the win in giant slalom to put her equal with Vreni Schneider on 55 wins before winning a slalom the following day to overtake the Swiss skier.

At the World Championships, Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in the super-G before taking a bronze in the giant slalom in windy, changeable conditions, finishing behind Vlhova and Viktoria Rebensburg.

Mikaela Shiffrin went on to secure a second gold in the slalom, becoming the first alpine skier to win four consecutive World Championships in the same discipline, despite suffering from a lung infection on the day of the race.

At the World Cup finals in Soldeu, Mikaela Shiffrin started her campaign by clinching the super-G crystal globe, finishing fourth in the final race to take her tenth World Cup title and her first in a speed discipline, having already built an unassailable lead to secure the overall and slalom titles earlier in the season.

Mikaela Shiffrin became the first skier to win World Cups in a technical and a speed event in the same season since Tina Maze six years earlier.

Mikaela Shiffrin went on to win the slalom, her 16th win of the season and the 40th slalom win of her career, tying with Stenmark for the most World Cup slalom race wins.

Mikaela Shiffrin later won her 41st slalom race, making her the skier who has won the most World Cup slalom races.

Mikaela Shiffrin had inconsistent performances in the technical races in the first half of the 2020 season, winning three slalom races to start but placing runner-up to Petra Vlhova later in the season.

Mikaela Shiffrin experienced similar fluctuations in ranking in Giant Slalom.

Mikaela Shiffrin did attend the final competition in Are, Sweden, but the race was canceled due to the coronavirus.

Mikaela Shiffrin missed the first race weekend of the season in Solden due to a back issue, but returned to racing in the first of the two slalom races at Levi, where she placed second.

However, at the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Mikaela Shiffrin emerged on top form, performing perhaps even better than expected and winning four medals, the most she has won in a single World Championship event.

Mikaela Shiffrin ultimately won the silver in the Giant Slalom after narrowly finishing in first after one run, only.

Mikaela Shiffrin entered the final race of the championships, the slalom, with a record four consecutive world championship titles to her name.

Mikaela Shiffrin was able to overtake Holdener in the second run but was beaten by Vlhova and Liensberger, winning the bronze and losing the slalom title for the first time in her career; however, her bronze medal win still gave her an 11th world championship medal, tied with Anja Parson for the most medals won since World War 2, the most medals won by an athlete at the 2021 championships and extending her record as the most decorated American alpine skier in world championship history.

At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin was favored to win gold in at least three of the six events she was planning to compete in.

Mikaela Shiffrin competed in the mixed team event for the first time on the last day of competition, finishing fourth as part of the US team.

In March 2023, Mikaela Shiffrin won her 87th World Cup race, overtaking Ingemar Stenmark for the most World Cup wins by any alpine skier.

Mikaela Shiffrin is one of only 5 Americans to ever win the World Cup overall title.

Mikaela Shiffrin has won World Cup races in ladies' slalom, parallel slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill, and alpine combined.

Regardless of gender, Mikaela Shiffrin is the only athlete to have won 15 races in the same calendar year, winning the last slalom of the 2018 season in Semmering and surpassing Marcel Hirscher.

Mikaela Shiffrin competed in her first World Championships in 2013 at Schladming, Austria, and finished sixth in the giant slalom at Planai.

Mikaela Shiffrin competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where she won the gold medal in the giant slalom and silver medal in the Combined.

Mikaela Shiffrin placed 4th in the slalom despite being favored to win the gold medal in the event.

Days after her first World Cup finals in 2013, Mikaela Shiffrin was interviewed by David Letterman on the Late Show on March 19.

In 2014, Mikaela Shiffrin was featured in a one-hour special on NBC television, How to Raise an Olympian, on February 5.

On July 12,2014, Mikaela Shiffrin was a guest on the NPR radio show Wait Wait.

On October 27,2016, Mikaela Shiffrin, speaking in German, presented the award for the best Austrian sportsman to Marcel Hirscher at a sports gala in Austria.

In 2017, Mikaela Shiffrin discussed her skiing roots and aptitude for napping on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers.

In 2018, Mikaela Shiffrin was profiled on CBS News' 60 Minutes.

Mikaela Shiffrin is often featured in Outside's "In Search of Speed," including in 2015,2017 and 2018.

In December 2022, Mikaela Shiffrin began releasing documentary videos on her own Youtube channel, with themes and content of her choosing.