Shiffrin equals women's World Cup wins record

Mikaela Shiffrin won her first World Cup race, aged 17, in Sweden in 2012

Mikaela Shiffrin equalled the women's record for World Cup skiing victories with the 82nd win of her career.

She finished 0.77 seconds ahead of the field in Sunday's giant slalom to claim an eighth win of the season.

The two-time Olympic gold medallist is now only four World Cup victories short of the overall record held by Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark.

Shiffrin had won five consecutive World Cup races before a sixth-placed finish in Saturday's opening giant slalom of the weekend.

She opened a 0.24-second lead over the field with a dominant opening run on Sunday and stretched that further in the second to finish well ahead of Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami in second place.

Shiffrin is the reigning overall women's World Cup champion, with four Crystal Globe titles in her career, and comfortably leads this year's overall standings.

Swedish legend Stenmark dominated the men's slalom and giant slalom disciplines from 1975 up to his retirement in 1989. Shiffrin won her first World Cup race in December 2012, aged just 17.

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