Mikaela Shiffrin

Mikaela Shiffrin is a true powerhouse in her discipline. The ski racer from the USA is currently one of the most successful female skiers in history. At the age of 18, she became the youngest Olympic champion in her parade discipline of slalom, and she also won the world championship title in slalom four times in a row. She took the small crystal globe six times and thus the season's victory in slalom and is a four-time overall World Cup winner. These and other impressive achievements make her the record winner with a total of 82 World Cup victories. But that's not all: she's also always at the top of her game at the Olympics and has taken home a total of three medals so far, two in gold and one in silver. And even if the slalom is her main discipline, she is one of only seven athletes who have already won World Cups in all disciplines.

Mikaels Shiffrin is a real powerhouse. She is currently one of the most successful alpine skiers in history. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, she managed to become the youngest Olympic champion in the slalom discipline at the age of just 18. She owes this and her numerous other successes to her tireless diligence and her motto "ABFTTB". We explain what that means, why Shiffrin is unstoppable and what makes her a role model in the ski scene.

Mikaela Shiffrin is one of the best slalom racers in history. With 82 World Cup victories, no one can surpass her at the age of 27. She had her first successes as a ski racer at the age of 13, when she won both the slalom, the giant slalom and the combined in a junior competition "Whistler Cup" for children. For the first time outside her home country, she won at the age of 15 in the slalom and giant slalom of the Trofeo Topolino (today: FIS Children Cup), the most important international children's ski race.

Together with her older brother Taylor and her parents, Schiffrin grew up in Vail, Colorado. Her parents were also former ski racers, so it was not far-fetched that Schiffrin would follow in their footsteps. She began skiing at the early age of five. It quickly became apparent that she had great talent, which is why, as an advanced student, she could not be placed in a suitable age group by her coach at the time. Initially, Mikaela Shiffrin, together with her brother, who is also a ski racer, attended the Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont to gain general knowledge in skiing. Shortly after, she became the youngest slalom champion at the age of 18, quickly becoming the most sought-after athlete in skiing. Shiffrin has been in a steady relationship with a Norwegian skier named Aleksander Aamodt Kilde since the end of May 2021.