Mikaela Shiffrin won Saturday's slalom in Andorra to seal her 16th World Cup win of a record-breaking season as Alexis Pinturault prevailed in the giant slalom. Last week the all-conquering American Shiffrin set a new record for most World Cup victories in a season with her 15th to pull clear of the previous benchmark of 14 set by Swiss legend Vreni Schneider who achieved the feat in 1988-89.
It was Shiffrin's 59th career success on Saturday and it came in the week she celebrated her 24th birthday. Shiffrin had already been assured of the slalom small globe to go alongside her super-G globe and overall title. She is almost certain to add the giant slalom globe on Sunday when she only needs to finish in the first 15 places.
Shiffrin came good again on Saturday, beating Swiss Wendy Holdener by 0.07sec to swell her World Cup points haul to 2,104, the second highest total in history behind the 2,414 points Maze amassed in the 2012/13 campaign. Earlier Pinturault won the men's giant slalom with Marcel Hirscher already assured of the discipline's small globe back in sixth. Pinturault left it late to open his giant slalom account for the season, finishing 0.44sec quicker than Swiss rival Marco Odermatt with Slovenia's Zan Kranjec at 1.03sec back in third.
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