SRD and Burke Mountain Academy’s golden girl Mikaela Shiffrin is proving to have the Midas touch this season as the two-time Trofeo Topolino gold medalist and Junior Olympics champion cruised to another top-level win at the Whistler Cup today (April 10). She won the women’s K2 giant slalom by more than two and half seconds after finishing third in yesterday’s super G.
Shiffrin put down a time of 1:44.7 to claim a convincing victory over Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova in second with a time of 1:46.44. Austrian Chiara Mair finished third with a time of 1:46.42. Alix Wells was the top Canadian in eighth place.
“Today went really well. I just tried to put it down the hill as fast a possible and it worked out. The conditions were great and the course was great, so it was perfect,” Shiffrin said, who won the slalom and finished with three podiums at last year’s Whistler Cup. “Everybody brings the same enthusiasm and focus to skiing. There are definitely similarities although Topolino is a bit bigger.”
The ski race for the world’s elite 11 to 14-year-old ski racers has proven to be a destination of future ski racing champions, with a total of seven of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games medalists at the alpine events having competed in the Whistler Cup including USA’s Linsay Vonn (Kildow) and Julia Mancuso as well as Slovenia’s Tina Maze and Anja Paerson of Sweden.
The girls ski racers conclude the 2010 Whistler Cup tomorrow with a slalom while the boys have a giant slalom.
For complete results and more information go to the official Whistler Cup site here.
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