| Disciplines | Giant slalom, Slalom | |||||||||
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| Club | Burke Mountain Academy, East Burke, VT |
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| Born | March 13, 1995 Vail, Colorado, United States |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | |||||||||
| World Cup debut | March 11, 2011 (age 15) |
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| Seasons | 2nd | |||||||||
| Podiums | 1 | |||||||||
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Mikaela Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995 in Vail, Colorado) is an American alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team, specializing in giant slalom and slalom.
Shiffrin’s meteoric rise up Alpine Skiing’s ranks began as soon as she was old enough to compete in FIS sanctioned races. On December 14, 2010, while meeting the minimum age of 15 requirement, Shiffrin won a Nor-Am Cup super combined race held at Panorama, BC – it was only the eighth FIS-level race she’d ever competed in. She followed it up by taking a 2nd, 3rd and 1st again in her next three Nor-Am races, a super-G, a GS and a slalom respectively. A couple of weeks later she won a pair of Nor-Am slalom races held at Sunday River, Maine. A month later she captured glory on the international stage by taking a slalom bronze at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships held at Crans Montana, Switzerland (after having been down with a stomach flu the day before). Then in early April, just a few weeks after her 16th birthday and a few weeks after competing in her first World Cup race at Spindleruv Mlyn, she made history when she won the US National slalom title at a race held at Winter Park, Colorado becoming the youngest US skier to ever claim a national alpine crown.[1]
On December 29, 2011, Shiffrin made her first World Cup podium, by posting the fastest second run time to attain third place in the Lienz, Austria slalom event.
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
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| 2012 | December 29, 2011 | Lienz, Austria | Slalom | 3rd |