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German ski riders ruined the slalom World Cup dress rehearsal. In the night race in Flachau, Austria, Lena Dürr (Germering) lost the target place in the top eight when Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) won the record.
As the only one of four German participants in the final, she only finished eleventh on the Hermann Maier track as the snow continued.
Shiffrin celebrated her 68th World Cup victory as “Queen of the Night” in the last slalom prior to the Cortina d’Ampezzo World Cup (8-21 February), which, according to a decision of the Italian government, must take place without spectators due to the corona pandemic. She surpassed Marcel Hirscher (Austria) on the best list of all time, ahead of her are Ingemar Stenmark (Sweden / 86) and Lindsey Vonn (USA / 82).
At the same time, Shiffrin set a record with her first slalom success this winter, ahead of Katharina Liensberger of Austria (+0.19 seconds) and Wendy Holdener of Switzerland (+0.43): she has now won 44 slalom races , so no other skier has achieved many victories in a single discipline. Only Stenmark was most often in first place in the giant slalom (46), Vonn won 43 races downhill.
For Shiffrin, the victory was no less important: the 100th podium at exit 183 of the World Cup. Only seven Alpines had reached this mark before. Most of the podium spots went to Stenmark (155), Hirscher (138) and Vonn (137).
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