Mikaela Shiffrin secured a record-tying sixth women’s overall World Cup skiing title by holding off a challenge from emerging German rival Emma Aicher in the final race of the season Wednesday.
Shiffrin needed only to finish in the top 15 of a giant slalom and the American standout secured that before Aicher even began her second run.
Shiffrin, 31, matched Austrian downhill great Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who won her six titles in the 1970s.
Moser-Pröll won five straight titles from 1971-75 then a sixth in 1979. Shiffrin won three straight from 2017-19, then back-to-back titles in 2022 and ’23.