Mikaela Shiffrin establishes the record of the World Cup podiums with third place in a slalom won by Katharina Truppe

They are, Sweden-Mikaela Shiffrin established a World Cup record of all time on Sunday with its 156 podium number, although it let the victory escape in a Slalom.

Running through the snow that constantly falls with a first race advantage, Shiffrin was only the fastest 25th in the second race to end in third place, 0.19 seconds behind the winning surprise Katharina Truppe.

Katharina Lienberger took second place, behind 0.05 behind her teammate of Austria, whose first victory in the Career World Cup was obtained at 29.

“Katharina day!” Shiffrin said in the completion area while hugging the two runners who defeated her.

“I really feel pretty good about it,” Shiffrin said about his fifth Slalom race on his return from a Severe shock in November. “Maybe it was not always perfect, but I was pressing very hard.”

The 156 ° Top 3 of Shiffrin in his World Cup in the World Cup broke a draw with the great Sueco Stenmark. Shiffrin also took the record of victories from all times of Stenmark and now he has 100 at 86.

Truppe now has one of the start of the 181st World Cup, although he has three championship medals, including the gold team event at the Beijing Olympic Games of 2022.

“It’s alone: ​​’Wow’. I am a little speechless,” said Truppe, who had been sixth faster in the morning race, following Shiffrin by 0.91. “First victory, it’s crazy. I will enjoy it and absorb all this emotion.”

Both Trupp and Shiffrin are 29 years old and won Slalom bronze medals in the Junior World Championship, although their careers were on different trajectories. Shiffrin won his medal at age 15 in 2011 and already had two Slalom titles of the Olympic World Cup and Gold before Trupp obtained his Junior Worlds medal in 2015.

Shiffrin needed to win on Sunday to win 100 race points and stay in dispute, although only alone, for a ninth Slalom title of a season. Four Slalom races were lost while recovering from his physique and Psychological injuries.

“I’m still trying to recover repetition. I just have to continue practicing it, ”he said.

With Olympic Slalom Petra Vlhova champion omitting the whole season To recover from a knee injury, the door opened for a new winner of the World Cup title.

The last Slalom of the World Cup season is in Sun Valley, Idaho, on March 27 with four skiers ahead of Shiffrin and within the 100 points of the advantage to lift the Crystal Globe trophy.

The contestants who pursued the title Zrinka Ljutic and Camille Rast, the gold medalist of the world championship last month, both were below their best form on Sunday and were tenth and 11, respectively.

Before going to the United States, Ljutic, 21, leads to Rast in the Slalom classification by 41 points and will win the title with a result in the top three. Lienberger, the 2021 champion and the Swiss teammate, Wendy Holder, could also win.