{"id":183113,"date":"2026-02-18T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:02:16","slug":"mikaela-shiffrin-wins-gold-in-slalom-at-milan-cortina-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183113\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in slalom at Milan-Cortina Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Mikaela Shiffrin<\/a>, the most successful racer in Alpine skiing history, ended her Olympic<\/a> medal drought in spectacular fashion Wednesday, winning gold in women\u2019s slalom at the Milan-Cortina Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin became the first U.S. skier to win three Olympic gold medals by finishing 1.50 seconds ahead of silver medalist Camille Rast of Switzerland and 1.71 seconds over bronze medalist Anna Swenn Larsson of Sweden, with a total time of 1:39.10 over two runs.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin used her sizable lead from the first run to earn her first Olympic gold medal since the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.<\/p>\n

In the morning run, Shiffrin finally broke through with a strong performance. She skied the course in a smooth 47.13 seconds, 0.82 of a second faster than Germany\u2019s Laura Duerr, who went just before her and briefly had the fastest run.<\/p>\n

It was a classic performance by Shiffrin, who won gold in slalom at the Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 when she was just 18, making her the youngest Olympic champion in that event.<\/p>\n

Her mother was watching from the finish line, and Shiffrin got a rousing ovation from the crowd when she finished her run.<\/p>\n

\"Gold <\/p>\n

Gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony following the Women\u2019s Slalom race.<\/p>\n

(Julian Finney\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Shiffrin got off to a rough start in these Games. After U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson set her up with a first-place finish in the downhill, Shiffrin finished 15th in the slalom portion of the women\u2019s combined and the Americans took fourth.<\/p>\n

In the giant slalom Sunday \u2014 an event where she won gold in 2018 \u2014 Shiffrin finished 11th, the best of the four Americans but a combined 0.92 seconds behind winner Frederica Brignone of Italy.<\/p>\n

A four-time Olympian, Shiffrin came to Cortina with a chance to add to her three Olympic medals \u2014 two golds and one silver.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, she was a favorite in Beijing but went 0 for 6 on podiums and failed to cross the finish line three times. Her best individual result was ninth in the super-G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Mikaela Shiffrin, the most successful racer in Alpine skiing history, ended her Olympic medal drought in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11432,1043,86600,24882,17650,48,52,51,47,50,49,81406,80746,86599,9018,86601,84594,12785,36690,86602,1557],"class_list":{"0":"post-183113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-americans","9":"tag-event","10":"tag-fast-run","11":"tag-finish-line","12":"tag-gold","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-mikaela-shiffrin","20":"tag-milan-cortina-games","21":"tag-olympic-medal-drought","22":"tag-second","23":"tag-silver-medalist-camille-rast","24":"tag-slalom","25":"tag-sweden","26":"tag-switzerland","27":"tag-winner-frederica-brignone","28":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}