Mikaela Shiffrin wins slalom Olympic gold medal at Winter Games 2026
Al Jazeera
American ski great clinches her fourth career Olympic medal, and her first since 2018, in the women’s slalom at Tofane.
Mikaela Shiffrin won Olympic slalom gold on Wednesday to end her eight-year Winter Games medal drought and bring some solace to the US ski team.
Shiffrin claimed the third Olympic title of her career, and her first since giant slalom gold at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, with a rapid combined time of 1min 39.10sec.
The 30-year-old already had a lead of 0.82sec after a first run she said she “nailed” in glorious conditions, and that handy cushion enabled her to cruise to victory.
She finished a whopping 1.50sec ahead of world champion Camille Rast, who took the first medal of these games for the Swiss women’s ski team.
Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson rounded out the podium to claim the first Olympic medal of her career.
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