Mikaela Shiffrin set a new record on Sunday, March 9, 2025, when she claimed the 156th top-three result of her career in Åre, Sweden, finishing in third place.
Previously, Shiffrin had been tied with legendary racer Ingemar Stenmark for the most career podium finishes.
In 2023, Shiffrin surpassed another of Stenmark’s records when she secured her 87th first-place finish, becoming the winningest alpine racer of all time. Her latest record-breaking performance follows another historic milestone—just last month, the 29-year-old skier achieved her 100th career win at an Italian World Cup slalom race. Unsurprisingly, Shiffrin admitted she’s finding it difficult to keep track of the many niche records she continues to break.
“There are so many discussions about different numbers,” she said, according to the FIS. On Sunday, Shiffrin led after her first run but dropped to 25th in her second. The combined performances were enough to secure third place overall. Austria’s Katharina Truppe claimed her first World Cup win, with fellow Austrian Katharina Liensberger finishing second.
“When it was fixed that I was on the podium, I thought, ‘Oh God, yes.’ But my first victory—it’s crazy. I have goosebumps on my body. It is unbelievable,” Truppe said, according to the FIS.
Shiffrin’s return to form on the slalom circuit marks a comeback story. In November, she crashed during a race in Killington, Vermont, suffering a puncture wound and oblique muscle trauma. The injury sidelined her for nearly two months.
While Shiffrin appears to be in peak slalom form ahead of the season’s final women’s World Cup events in Sun Valley, Idaho, giant slalom—the discipline in which she crashed in Killington—has proven more challenging.
In February, Shiffrin withdrew from the Giant Slalom race at the World Championships, later writing on social media, “I really didn’t anticipate experiencing so much of this kind of mental/PTSD struggle in GS from my injury.”
“Coming to terms with how much fear I have doing an event that I loved so dearly only two months ago has been soul-crushing,” she added.
Shiffrin has since returned to Giant Slalom but has yet to podium or secure a top-five finish in the discipline this season, despite her 22 career World Cup wins in the event.
In Åre this past weekend—just a day before her third-place finish in slalom—Shiffrin made an error in the Giant Slalom race, resulting in a DNF.