{"id":216732,"date":"2026-01-04T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216732\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:41:07","slug":"camille-rast-ends-mikaela-shiffrins-slalom-winning-streak-in-slovenia-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216732\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille Rast ends Mikaela Shiffrin\u2019s slalom winning streak in Slovenia | Skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The duel between Mikaela Shiffrin<\/a> and her Swiss rival Camille Rast is shaping up nicely with 45 days to go until the women\u2019s slalom race at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

Rast ended Shiffrin\u2019s six-race winning streak in World Cup slaloms Sunday, beating the American star by 0.14 seconds after clocking the fastest time in both runs at an event in Slovenia.<\/p>\n

Rast, who is the slalom world champion, also led Shiffrin last week in Austria after the first leg but the American made up more than half a second on a deteriorating course<\/a> to narrowly take the win.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, though, Rast held on to her first-run lead for her fourth career win, and third in slalom, before being hugged by Shiffrin in the finish area.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer skiing is so strong, and it\u2019s been building, building, building,\u201d Shiffrin said about Rast. \u201cThe last races she had some mistakes that cost time. And today, how I saw her ski the first run, ah, I had to go 120% in order to have a shot. So, it was a big, big, amazing day for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shiffrin was still satisfied with her own skiing and celebrated by pumping her fist after finishing her final run, when Rast was yet to start.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a really specific goal for my skiing for the second (run), a little bit technical thing, and I felt like I really accomplished that,\u201d Shiffrin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the hardest I could push. I pushed so hard, it was like a small mistake here and a small mistake there and I don\u2019t think that cost time. That was just how hard I was trying. I could feel these turns that I wanted to feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s victory came one day after Rast earned her maiden giant slalom win on the same hill and dedicated that victory to the victims of the fire at a bar in Crans-Montana near her home town of V\u00e9troz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave everything I had this weekend. Double on the same weekend is quite amazing. I\u2019m so happy,\u201d Rast said, adding that \u201ca lot of energy\u201d was key to her triumph.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a little bit a battle, but I had a lot of fun. And the slope, wow, was amazing, The preparation was top.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo were far ahead of the rest of the field, with Rast\u2019s teammate Wendy Holdener trailing by a massive 1.83 seconds in third for her first podium result in nearly a year.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin\u2019s teammate Paula Moltzan in fourth was the only other racer finishing less than two seconds off the pace.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin, who took slalom gold at the 2014 Olympics and holds four world titles in the discipline, won the final race of last season before taking the first five slaloms in the current campaign and raise her career tally to 69 wins in slalom and 106 overall, both World Cup records.<\/p>\n

Defending slalom World Cup winner Zrinka Ljuti\u0107 of Croatia didn\u2019t finish for the fourth time in six races this season.<\/p>\n

Italian prodigy Lara Colturi, competing for Albania, lost her balance and fell on the first run on a course set by her father and coach, Alessandro Colturi. She was on the podium in four of the previous five slaloms this season.<\/p>\n

The next slalom is a night race on 13 January in Flachau, where Rast triumphed last year and Shiffrin won five times in the past. The last slalom before the Olympics is on 25 January in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

A downhill and a super-G are scheduled next weekend in another Austrian resort, Zauchensee.<\/p>\n

There were no men\u2019s World Cup races this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The duel between Mikaela Shiffrin and her Swiss rival Camille Rast is shaping up nicely with 45 days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-216732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}