Mikaela Shiffrin won her ninth straight slalom race and her second straight since returning from a December knee injury, crushing the field by 2.36 seconds in Jasna, Slovakia, on Sunday.
The youngest Olympic slalom champion’s winning streak dating to the February 2015 World Championships includes that World title, a National title and seven World Cup slaloms.
It’s the longest women’s World Cup slalom winning streak since four-time Olympic champion Janica Kostelic won 10 straight from 1999 through 2001.
During Shiffrin’s streak, she’s notched the largest World Cup women’s slalom margin of victory (3.