PREVIEW LADIES' GIANT SLALOM – Friday 8 Mar 2019
Mikaela Shiffrin - crystal globe • Mikaela Shiffrin will secure the ladies' giant slalom crystal globe if she leads by more than 100 points after this race. • It would be Shiffrin's first crystal globe in giant slalom. She has already won six in slalom and three overall (both including 2018/19). • Shiffrin could become the third alpine skier from the United States to win the ladies' giant slalom crystal globe, after Tamara McKinney (1981, 1983) and Marilyn Cochran (1969). • Shiffrin officially secured her third successive overall World Cup after the cancelled races in Sochi last week. She equalled Janica Kostelic, Petra Kronberger and Vreni Schneider (all 3) in third place for most ladies' overall crystal globes, behind Annemarie Moser-Pröll (6) and Lindsey Vonn (4). • Shiffrin became the fourth woman to win three consecutive overall crystal globes, after Vonn (2008-2010), Kronberger (1990-1992) and Moser-Pröll (5, 1971-1975). • Shiffrin can become the fifth woman to win the slalom and giant slalom crystal globes in one season, after Tanja Poutiainen (2005), Anja Pärson (2004), Schneider (1989, 1995) and Lise-Marie Morerod (1977). • Pärson (2004), Schneider (1989, 1995) and Morerod (1977) also won the overall World Cup in those seasons. • The last woman to win three World Cup standings in one season was Anna Veith in 2015, when she won the overall, giant slalom and Alpine combined.
Mikaela Shiffrin - World Cup races • Mikaela Shiffrin can become the first alpine skier, male or female, to win 15 World Cup races in a single season. She now shares the record of 14 with Vreni Schneider (1988/89). • Shiffrin has won 57 World Cup races in total, fifth-most among men and women. Annemarie Moser-Pröll is in fourth place on 62 victories. • Nine of Shiffrin's 57 race wins in the World Cup have been in giant slalom, equal to Tamara McKinney (9) for most among US women. • Shiffrin could win three successive World Cup giant slalom races for the first time. The last woman to achieve this was Anna Veith from February to March 2015. • Shiffrin could become the first woman to win four World Cup giant slalom events in a season since Veith (4) in 2014/15.
Viktoria Rebensburg • Viktoria Rebensburg has won 14 giant slalom races in the World Cup, equal to Anita Wachter, Tina Maze and Lise-Marie Morerod in third place
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among women. Only Vreni Schneider (20) and Annemarie Moser-Pröll (16) have won more. • Only Katja Seizinger (16 in downhill, 16 in super-G) has claimed more World Cup race wins in a specific event among German alpine skiers (male or female) than Rebensburg (14) in the giant slalom. • Rebensburg won the last giant slalom race held in Špindleruv Mlýn, on 11 March 2011. • Rebensburg has yet to win a World Cup event in giant slalom this season. She finished second in Courchevel and Semmering.
Other contenders • Tessa Worley (13) is one win shy of equalling Anita Wachter, Viktoria Rebensburg, Tina Maze and Lise-Marie Morerod (all 14) in third place among women with most World Cup giant slalom race wins. Only Vreni Schneider (20) and Annemarie Moser-Pröll (16) have won more. • In all events, only Carole Merle (22) and Perrine Pelen (15) have won more World Cup races among French women than Worley (13). • Petra Vlhová could win her fifth World Cup race of this season, more than she won in the previous three campaigns combined: two in 2017/18, one in 2016/17 and one in 2015/16. • Vlhová could win successive giant slalom races in the World Cup for the first time. • Federica Brignone has won five giant slalom races in the World Cup, only trailing Deborah Compagnoni (13) and Denise Karbon (6) for most among Italian women. • Marta Bassino has claimed four World Cup giant slalom podiums, all third places. She could become the seventh Italian woman to win a giant slalom event in the World Cup. • Ragnhild Mowinckel has collected four World Cup podium finishes in the giant slalom. She won the race in Ofterschwang on 9 March 2018. • Andrine Flemmen (3) is the only Norwegian woman to have won multiple World Cup giant slalom races. • Austrian women have won a record 93 giant slalom races in the World Cup, but not since Eva-Maria Brem won in Jasná in March 2016. • Austria have failed to win the last 24 ladies' World Cup races in the giant slalom, their second-longest winning drought in this event, after 84 races without a victory from 1978 to 1989.
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