KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) \u2014 Mikaela Shiffrin \u2019s quest to tie Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark\u2019s record of 86 career World Cup victories now moves to his home country.
\nShiffrin\u2019s next race is a giant slalom in Are on Friday, as the American skier seeks one victory to match Stenmark \u2019s total on the all-time overall winners list \u2013 between men and women. The Swede competed in the 1970s and 80s.
\nAre was also the venue of Shiffrin\u2019s first career win, in December 2012.
\nShiffrin rounded off a three-race weekend in Norway Sunday by finishing in seventh position at a super-G affected by changing weather conditions. The American was fourth in a super-G Friday and fifth in a downhill the following day to lock up her fifth World Cup overall title.
\nOn Sunday, Shiffrin was among the early starters when low clouds caused flat light and snowfall slowed most racers before later starters benefited from improved conditions when skies cleared.
\nWearing bib 31, Nina Ortlieb led an Austrian sweep of the podium ahead of Stephanie Venier, who started 29th, and Franziska Gritsch, who started 26th.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s slow with the snow on the flat part,\u201d Shiffrin said. \u201cBut I also felt very strong down there pushing the limits, so I\u2019m super happy with my run.\u201d
\nShiffrin broke a tie on the all-time women\u2019s list with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn in January. Vonn had 82 wins when she retired in 2019.
\nShiffrin has been stuck on 85 World Cup wins for four events now, and the American didn\u2019t got a real chance Sunday to end the wait.
\n\u201cThe conditions are changing so much, it\u2019s not one of those days where I can really compare myself to what\u2019s going on with the results,\u201d Shiffrin said.
\n\u201cBut my skiing was good, I was aggressive, so I\u2019m actually really happy with that. In this group of women going around me, to be kind of this fast, that was a really, really good sign.\u201d
\nSofia Goggia was the first racer from the top 20-ranked skiers in fourth position, trailing Ortlieb by 0.69 seconds.
\nThe Italian, who locked up the downhill season title Saturday, looked set for victory when sitting in the leader seat after all other pre-race favorites were down.
\n\u201cI\u2019m happy with my ski performance but the race has changed too much,\u201d Goggia said. \u201cWe came down with criminal conditions and now there\u2019s the sun and everything\u2019s really fast.\u201d
\nOrtlieb acknowledged the conditions gave her an advantage.
\n\u201cUnbelievable. I knew at the start the conditions were getting better and better,\u201d the Austrian said. \u201cI was lucky. I\u2019m sure that it was not fair for everyone, but I got the opportunity and I think I skied well.\u201d
\nRight after finishing, Ortlieb looked around in apparent disbelief, then shook her head a few times.
\n\u201cA little crazy to see the green light in the finish. I was a little bit confused, but it\u2019s amazing,\u201d said Ortlieb, who was only 29th in Friday\u2019s super-G on the same course.
\n\u201cI got a big improvement from two days ago, when I was skiing without confidence,\u201d the Austrian said after her second career win.
\nOrtlieb\u2019s win marked only the second victory for the Austrian women\u2019s team this season after Cornelia Huetter triumphed in Friday\u2019s super-G.
\nIt was the first Austrian sweep in a women\u2019s super-G since Alexandra Meissnitzer, Andrea Fischbacher and Michaela Dorfmeister finished on the podium in Lake Louise, Alberta in December 2005.
\nOrtlieb became the seventh different winner in seven World Cup super-G races this season.
\nElena Curtoni tops the discipline standings before the season-ending race in Andorra on March 16, but four skiers are within 44 points of the Italian\u2019s lead. Shiffrin won one super-G this campaign but is out of contention for the season title, trailing Curtoni by 110 points in sixth.
\nThe race was interrupted after Alice Robinson crashed and slid into the safety nets on a tricky passage near the end of her run but the New Zealand racer appeared unhurt.<\/p>\n
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