Team USA’s Alpine Skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin arrives at the FIS World Cup stop in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia (3-4 January 2026), looking to extend her perfect slalom record this season while continuing to build momentum in giant slalom in the new year.
Shiffrin enters this World Cup weekend as the leader in both the overall and slalom FIS standings for the 2025-26 campaign, and will hope to add to her record 106 World Cup wins.
In the women’s slalom race on Sunday, Shiffrin will be chasing a sixth consecutive victory of the season in the discipline.
The American opens the weekend with giant slalom on Saturday (3 January), an event in which she is still rebuilding consistency following her injury at the November 2024 World Cup in Killington, Vermont.
Her best giant slalom result this season was a fourth-place finish in early December at Tremblant, Canada. Most recently, she placed sixth in Semmering, where Austria’s Julia Scheib took the win ahead of the Swiss World champion Camille Rast and Sweden’s Sara Hector.
In slalom, however, Shiffrin has remained dominant. At Semmering, she fought back in the second run to secure victory ahead of Rast and Albania’s Lara Colturi showcasing once again her ability to deliver under pressure.
Schiffrin has had mixed results at Kranjska Gora. She last won slalom at the venue in 2018, but has recorded DNFs in both slalom appearances since (2022 and 2024). She’s had more success on these slopes in giant slalom, with two career victories, most recently in 2023, before finishing ninth last season.