Another day, another record for Mikaela Shiffrin.
Shiffrin’s third-place finish in the slalom Sunday in Are, Sweden, was her 156th World Cup podium. That breaks Ingemar Stenmark’s record for career podium appearances, which had stood since 1989.
The milestone comes two years after Shiffrin won the slalom in Are to break Stenmark’s record of 86 all-time World Cup wins. Shiffrin has since blown past that mark, winning her 100th World Cup race two weeks ago.
Shiffrin was solidly in the lead after the first run, finishing 0.43 seconds ahead of Germany’s Lena Duerr. But with conditions deteriorating, Shiffrin was 25th in the second run and wound up behind Austria’s Katharina Truppe and Katharina Liensberger.
Her combined time of 1:42.27 was 0.19 seconds behind Truppe.
Shiffrin needed to win Sunday to keep her slim chances of winning the season slalom title alive. Though she’s won three of her five World Cup slalom races this season, she missed two months after tearing a deep gash in her oblique muscles in a crash during a giant slalom race in Killington, Vermont.
“I’m still trying to get the repetition back,” Shiffrin said, according to NBC. “I feel almost like when you haven’t skied the whole summer, and then you come back and your timing is just a little bit wrong. It’s coming really well in slalom now, but I just have to keep practicing it.”
Shiffrin now has two weeks before the World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Idaho.
