In history, Christl Cranz was the only slalom woman to have won three consecutive world titles in the late 1930s. Less than a month from her twenty-second birthday, Mikaela Shiffrin became the second Saturday in Saint- Moritz. What to confirm - if some doubted again - that the young skier from Vail (Colorado) is indeed the queen of discipline.
Her dominance is such that she had herself struggling to realize the extent of her success in the finishing area, the glove in front of the mouth wide open. After hovering on the first run (+0 "34 on Holdener), the American prodigy overflew the second, relegating to a second and 64 hundredths his Swiss pursuer, gold in front of his public in combined.
An Early Champion
Mikaela Shiffrin had completed the first race in 47s 80s ahead of Wendy Holdener, who won his second World Championship medal after his title in the combined. Shiffrin had already won silver Thursday in the giant slalom.
With a first title at Schladming in 2013, Shiffrin, a very early champion, had recidivated two years later at home in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado - the venues where the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships were held. Olympic slalom champion in 2014 in Sochi, Mikaela Shiffrin, who won her first World Cup slalom at 17, currently dominates the slalom, as the Swede Ingemar Stenmark was able to do in the men of her time.
