Mikaela Shiffrin

Sobre Mikaela Shiffrin

Mikaela Shiffrin, born in Vail, Colorado, is the second child of Eileen and Jeff Shiffrin, who both hail from the Northeastern United States and have backgrounds as former ski racers. Her paternal grandfather was Jewish. Jeff, her father, was an enthusiastic skier in his youth, spending weekends in Vermont, and he later competed for Dartmouth College. Eileen, her mother, was a high school ski racer in Massachusetts, while her brother Taylor, born in 1992, raced for the University of Denver. The Shiffrin family relocated to rural New Hampshire in 2003 when Mikaela was eight, as her father began working at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. After five years, the family moved to Denver, while Taylor remained on the East Coast to attend Burke Mountain Academy, a prominent ski academy. Mikaela also briefly attended middle school at Burke before joining her parents in Colorado. From an early age, Mikaela demonstrated remarkable talent in skiing, winning both the slalom and giant slalom events at the Topolino Games in Italy at just 14 years old in March 2010, competing against athletes from 40 countries. The following winter, she captured a Nor-Am Cup super combined race in December 2010 in Panorama, British Columbia, marking only her eighth FIS-level competition. Shiffrin continued to excel, securing three additional podium finishes in her next three Nor-Am races, including victories in slalom and a bronze medal in slalom at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships in Switzerland, despite battling a stomach virus. Throughout her early skiing career, she looked up to Croatian former racer Janica Kostelić and American skier Bode Miller. Since 2021, she has been in a relationship with fellow skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde.

In winning her second Olympic gold medal in giant slalom in 2018, Shiffrin matched the record for the most Olympic golds by any American in alpine skiing, achieving a total of three gold medals. She stands as one of only five Americans to have captured the overall World Cup title. Shiffrin is also the most accomplished American alpine skier in World Championships, with a total of 14 medals, seven of which are gold—more than any other American. Unique among athletes, she has celebrated victories across all six FIS Alpine Ski World Cup disciplines. She has achieved wins in slalom, parallel slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill, and alpine combined. At the age of 23 years and 9 months, Shiffrin became the youngest skier to reach 50 World Cup race victories. She has amassed 87 World Cup wins, surpassing Ingemar Stenmark for the highest number of wins in history, including a record 53 slalom victories and 21 giant slalom wins, the latter being the most by any female skier. Remarkably, she is the only athlete