ARE, Sweden — Mikaela Shiffrin set an all-time World Cup record Sunday with her 156th podium finish though she let victory slip away in a slalom.
Racing through steadily falling snow with a first-run lead, Shiffrin was only 25th-fastest in the second run to finish in third place, 0.19 seconds behind surprise winner Katharina Truppe.
Katharina Liensberger placed second, trailing 0.05 behind her Austria teammate, whose first career World Cup win was earned at age 29.
«Katharina Day!» Shiffrin said in the finish area as she hugged the two racers who beat her.
«I actually feel pretty good about it,» Shiffrin said of her fifth slalom race in her comeback from a serious crash in November. «I maybe wasn't always perfect but I was pushing really hard.»
Shiffrin's 156th top-3 result in her World Cup career broke a tie with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. Shiffrin also took the all-time wins record from Stenmark and now has 100 to his 86.
Truppe now has one from her 181st World Cup start, though she has three championship medals including the team event gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
«It's just: 'Wow.' I'm a little bit speechless,» said Truppe, who had been sixth-fastest in the morning run, trailing Shiffrin by 0.91. «First victory, it's crazy. I will enjoy it and soak up all this emotion.»
Both Truppe and Shiffrin are aged 29 and won slalom bronze medals at the junior world championships though their careers were on different trajectories. Shiffrin won her medal aged 15 in 2011 and already had two World Cup slalom titles and Olympic gold before Truppe got her junior worlds medal in 2015.
Shiffrin needed to win Sunday to earn 100 race points and stay in contention — though only just — for a ninth career season-long slalom
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