CORTINA D’AMPEZZO – CORTINA D’American skier Mikaela Shiffrin The quest for a record-breaking 83rd World Cup win is still on hold.
Shiffrin finished seventh, 0.39 seconds behind leader Ilka Stuhec while other skiers have yet to race during a downhill on Saturday at the course used for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics.
So Shiffrin stayed level on points former teammate Lindsey Vonn for the women’s record 82 everyone wins.
Season’s downhill leader Sofia Goggia, who won Friday’s race in Cortina, fell midway through her run but appeared uninjured.
Shiffrin was fourth in the first of two descents in Cortina on Friday.
A Super-G rounds off the Cortina weekend on Sunday.
Stuhec, the 2017 and 2019 downhill world champion, was 0.26 ahead of Kajsa Vickhoff Lie and 0.34 ahead of Elena Curtoni.
Stuhec has not won a World Cup race since December 2018.
The Olympia delle Tofane course has been shortened due to the wind, removing the most characteristic section of the course, the Tofana shot or the “slide” between two rock faces.
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